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Proof of concept: an accessible, GUI-based simple canvas editor(scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk)
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In theory. We're still waiting to see if anyone will be prosecuted for the Grenfell Tower fire ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6pp46z93k6o On the software front - there may finally be some progress o
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> The problem is that a lot of people are doing OSS to get work, or to get better work. Almost all of them really, lately. This is exactly why I started my canvas library back in 2013. Hundreds of job applications were generating near ze
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Previously posted here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42155026 My comment on that thread: > We propose that people rate AI poems more highly across all metrics in part because they find AI poems more straightforw
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Reading the documentation, it seems to implement most (all?) of the Web Canvas API[1], and in certain areas extend the API in some exciting (well, exciting to me[2]) ways. The key point is that this can be used in the backend, far beyond th
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Do you want to add Genuary to your list? A month of daily prompts to get you producing some generative / creative coding art. Starts Jan 1. Website here: https://genuary.art/ I've promised myself that one year I w
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by rikroots 2y ago
This is my experience. After the first week I develop an intense hatred of all things Elf and start swearing at my laptop. At which point I give up to stop my mental health deteriorating any further.
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I have a 3 year old Samsung mobile. Over the past few months Samsung have been bombarding me with targeted ads and emails begging me to upgrade to their new-shiny latest-greatest mobile. Much of their effort leads on all of the wonders that
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by rikroots 2y ago
> We propose that people rate AI poems more highly across all metrics in part because they find AI poems more straightforward. AI-generated poems in our study are generally more accessible than the human-authored poems in our study. In o
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by rikroots 2y ago
> Google has proposed a placeElement method that allows you to render HTML and CSS into a canvas I've just read it. Oh, dear ... what an awful proposal! My initial thoughts, reacting to the README at https://github.com&#x
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The most painful issues I encountered when building out a text layout engine for my JS 2D canvas library were: - Vertical text - in particular when it comes to how CJK punctuation differs in horizontal and vertical environments (not yet sol
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Exactly! Explaining to people that I'm face-blind is a chore - people often forget! Asking them if I can take a picture of them during that first explanation (which often starts as an apology) so that my glasses could try and recognise
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by rikroots 2y ago
> To use it, the wearer simply puts on the glasses while walking by people. The glasses then detect when somebody's face is in the frame. This photo is used to analyze the individual, and after a few seconds, their personal informat
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by rikroots 2y ago
This code[1] takes a Gevey[2] phrase (eg: Ganexlje tots qibate vuiteerjat, yu vaelaem vosubz djaont nexljate veihat. Ûdx leugxoisqeu veihakjeu seti, sneinov galeugxe árj mondz dxeute tadiljt.[3]) and turns it into a string of letters that c
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by rikroots 2y ago
I went with Svelte when I built out the website for my canvas library a few years back[1]. It's proved to be easy to maintain the site, and I particularly like that it supported my vanilla JS library (which I use on the site's lan
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Getting Started with Scrawl-Canvas(scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk)
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"He's a bit of a wombat, that one: eats, roots and leaves." ... Yeah. I don't get Aussie humour either.
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(Note that my HN name is the same as my real name, without the space). On my first (and only) visit to Australia I got stopped at passport control. The security bloke took my passport and looked at it. Then kept looking at it, in silence. H
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by rikroots 2y ago
Whenever I see a new (to me) charting library that uses the HTML5 canvas element, the first thing I do is go checkout the repo to see how it handles accessibility issues. These people seem to have put some good thought into the issue, in pa
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by rikroots 2y ago
The most productive discussion about this website, on HN, was 12 years ago[1]. I remain entirely impressed by the artistry (and patience?) that went into creating these animations! [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by rikroots 2y ago
Best HN chat for this ever-popular article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25633483
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I have a canvas library which was in serious need of a community. One of the things I tried to find that community was joining the indie hackers website - I mean, building in public is the sort of thing I'm already doing with my librar
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by rikroots 2y ago
When I was building out a new text layout engine for my canvas library, handling soft hyphens were one of the most annoying parts of the work ... until I moved beyond western fonts and met the line layout issues that other languages impose
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by rikroots 2y ago
I'll be 60 in a couple of weeks time (I hate typing that - get off my lawn etc!). I know I'm not less productive now than I was 10, 20, 30 years ago. Maybe a bit more cynical - but then I can hide that with humour. The one think I
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Canvas – fitting styled multiline text into a shape(scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk)
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Reminded me of the Beach Artist, Jon Foreman. There's a news article on YouTube about the art he created on my hometown beach here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEaJZF1z6j4
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by rikroots 2y ago
I looked at harfbuzzjs at one point when the work was making me cry. It looks very useful, but in the end I decided against using it. Partly because I'm keen to keep my library free of direct dependencies. But also because I know both
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by rikroots 2y ago
> but I am wondering how much time and effort has gone into that For me, it was the best part of 4 months of mornings, evenings and weekends - and roughly 40% of my sanity (quaternions took the other 60% a few years ago). And the work is
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by rikroots 2y ago
Congratulations. The product looks very interesting. Also congratulations on building a canvas engine library! Nothing is easy when it comes to canvas. Creating one for the WebGL canvas is magnitudes of more difficulty compared to 2D (which
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The camels in Australia would like to (very impolitely) disagree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_feral_camel

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