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Cache Monet
- harel 9mo agoI don't know what this is, but I like it
- MarcelOlsz 9mo agoYou're the man now, dawg.
- keepamovin 9mo agoI'm so delighted you guys are discovering this for the first time. It's been around for a long time. I think I first saw it in 2011.
- ale42 9mo agoThere's a (not so visible) info button top right. It says: cachemonet is an exploration into the serendipitous collisions that occur between two randomly generated arrays. the arrays contain a mix of custom and found .gifs sourced from tumblr and are set to music. the output is autonomous, generative, art made possible through curation & code. You can even turn on sound...
- pocksuppet 9mo agoand it sounds like "cash money"
- ale42 9mo agoThat probably depends on what is being displayed... at some point I had sounds of USB connect/disconnect (possibly from the Windows 7 era).
- cocoto 9mo agoWorks almost like stereograms (with duplicated object)!
- keepamovin 9mo agoYou mean those magic eye type things where you cross your eyes and see 3D? I love those. In fact that would be a cool Cache Monet variant to create. Get AI to produce two appropriate stereographic views of the same animated GIF, then it's like Cache Monet in 3D. Simple concept but not trivial I imagine.
- dominicq 9mo agoMmmm, funny shapes go brr
- cl0ckt0wer 9mo agoI can rock out to that all day
- __alexs 9mo agoIf you liked this, you'll probably also like https://ytmnd.com/ https://ytmnd.com/
- y-curious 9mo agoBiggest surprise here is that this website is still around. I was browsing it 20 years ago
- mrguyorama 9mo agoNewgrounds still exists. Having to pass a vote before you were uploaded and available for real I think was a good way to do things. Like a shitty peer review but for coolness.
- ricardobeat 9mo agoCool stuff, but why is there an entire loading screen and intro animation, then a play button, when it could just link to a gif? Made me lose interest in browsing real quick
- fredley 9mo agoI genuinely can't tell if this is satire or not.
- observationist 9mo ago2010 OG account. He's been holding in this opinion for over a decade, waiting for his moment.
- Jordan-117 9mo agoIt's to make sure the GIF is in sync with the audio. It was a bigger issue when connections were slower.
- jasonwatkinspdx 9mo agoHeh, my all time favorite: https://whatishoth.ytmnd.com https://whatishoth.ytmnd.com
- locknitpicker 9mo agoOn a somewhat related topic: There's an actress called Cashae Monya https://m.imdb.com/name/nm13392714/ https://m.imdb.com/name/nm13392714/
- FpUser 9mo agoLove it
- m000 9mo agoHow can I self-host this?
- flawn 9mo agoJust for the legacy of this, I need to make sure this never vanishes
- khana 9mo ago[dead]
- m_w_ 9mo agoAn all-time classic, glad to see it's been unchanged for at least a decade And you dip dip, dip...
- fowkswe 9mo agoThe track is Jib Kidder Windowdipper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAYU4rlwmA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAYU4rlwmA
- isoprophlex 9mo agoThanks. Been grooving on this for a solid 30 mins
- keepamovin 9mo agoI've had a few sprints where this has just looped for hours haha
- flawn 9mo agoI discovered this page like back in 2015 and I am grateful to find it on hackernews again, I forgot even its name in the meantime.
- Bjorkbat 9mo agoFinding out that this is over 10 years old has made me profoundly sad. Despite the age of LLMs arguably unlocking massive amounts of productivity and agency for developers and non-developers alike, it feels as though we are living in a dark age of creativity on the web, maybe even a dark age for computer culture in general.
- yreg 9mo agoNew interesting artsy web projects are being posted on hn all the time. neal.fun is an obvious example but there are plenty of others as well. https://ambient.garden/ https://ambient.garden/ https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/ https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/ https://terra.layoutit.com/ https://terra.layoutit.com/ https://ambigr.am/hall-of-fame https://ambigr.am/hall-of-fame https://autism-simulator.vercel.app/ https://autism-simulator.vercel.app/
- Bjorkbat 9mo agoI'm keenly aware, I have a pretty extensive collection of Hacker News bookmarks. It's hard to articulate why I think these are different, but I think the best way to put it is that cachemonet feels a lot more avant garde, and perhaps also a reflection of a very particular form of "web culture" that has no clear successors. People are experimenting with what you can do on the web, but the experiments aren't very "aesthetically inspiring". For that reason I'm kind of lukewarm on neal.fun. EDIT: so I think a better way to describe it is that when artists experiment with technology, you get something like cachemonet. When developers experiment with technology, you get a web experiment that challenges conventional notions of what you can do with the web, but with varying degrees of creativity. I think terra.layoutit.com is best appreciated by other web devs who can appreciate the sheer amount of work required to figure out how to render a terrain map in CSS, but otherwise it's basically just a tool to generate terrain height maps, and not a particularly good one. Generating terrain maps in CSS is not a feature, but a handicap.
- BenjaminBarwo 9mo agoI thought I was safe on here.
- isoprophlex 9mo agostrong overtones of Blank Banshee going on here. good times
- yreg 9mo agoNow I know what to do with my extra monitor that I used to use for a home dashboard.
- keepamovin 9mo agoHahah, excellent!
- sintezcs 9mo agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20100527013827/http://www.bio-bak.nl/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100527013827/http://www.bio-ba... Somehow reminded me about the biobak website from 2010s, unfortunately only available in the archive now, but still functional.
- binarygit 9mo agoTHAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!!
- kittikitti 9mo agoLove it, thank you. Because Wayland doesn't support screensavers, I finally found a solution for my older monitors. This is a perfect replacement.
- keepamovin 9mo agoYou're welcome! :)
- beklein 9mo agoSound on! Song name is: Windowdipper from ꪖꪶꪶ ꪮꪀ ꪗꪖꪶꪶ by Jib Kidder https://jibkidder.bandcamp.com/track/windowdipper https://jibkidder.bandcamp.com/track/windowdipper
- hmokiguess 9mo agowhat's the symbols for that `ꪖꪶꪶ ꪮꪀ ꪗꪖꪶꪶ ` font? where can I find these
- chmod775 9mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Viet_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Viet_script
- hmokiguess 9mo agothank you!
- hmokiguess 9mo agoalso, seems like they have another project https://feel.thatsh.it/ https://feel.thatsh.it/ and I'd love to find that song as well if you can help haha
- keepamovin 9mo agoThat song is also pretty nice. I wonder if that was an earlier project?
- neom 9mo agoI forgot about this, thank you! It was literally my screensaver all through the digitalocean build and got me through a lot of rough days. The clicking, I dunno, I spent too much time getting into weird click rhythms on this site. I would buy whoever made it dinner. https://www.cachemonet.com/save/ https://www.cachemonet.com/save/
- keepamovin 9mo agoYou're welcome. The site has also got me through lots of crazy programming sprints, somehow! haha. That along with looping the "Architect " scene from the Matrix. Edit: Shit i didn't know there was a screensaver. You're the OG how you discover that! :)
- legacynl 9mo agoI don't think I'm young enough to understand this.