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mildmelon
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About mildmelon
https://caidan.dev https://internet.dev
https://bsky.app/profile/caidan.dev https://x.com/caidanwilliams https://www.threads.com/@ancientsunshine
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Comment #46638923
Thank you, glad you like the tool!
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Comment #46638920
Thank you, glad you're enjoying it!
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Comment #46638917
Thank you!
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Comment #46638911
Author here, yes you're correct. The name is a bit of misnomer, and to do it truly with ASCII I'd have to move data back to the CPU which had pretty bad performance. I took a bit o…
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Comment #46638877
Author here. Sounds like a great idea! If you are able to build it I'd love to see, tag me on socials or send it to me please c:
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Comment #46638868
Author here, I've replied to the parent comment, hope that clears it up!
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Comment #46638861
Author here, you're mostly right in that it's a show piece. However, it uses no external libraries, I built it all myself using VanillaJS. I do use some famous noise algorithms, sp…
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Comment #46638838
Author here. It's a fun experiment into WebGL and graphics programming. I intended it to be a cool tool for getting inspiration for designing and creating other art in general. I d…
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Comment #46638776
Author here. This is all done on the GPU using shaders. It's a few layers, and you can find the details over on my Bluesky post, feel free to read it there. I've been thinking abou…
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Comment #46638722
Author here. Now that's a great idea! I might have to try and get it published there!
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Comment #46638709
Author here. Not ridiculous at all, the name is a bit of a misnomer. I had tried doing true ASCII but moving data back to the CPU to render it all was too slow. So I opted to recre…
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Comment #46638684
Author here. Thanks so much for the kind feedback, I appreciate that you are getting so much joy out of it!
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Comment #46638675
Author here. Thanks for the kind words, glad you're having fun with it!
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Comment #46638666
Author here. That's so cool, thanks for sharing!
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Comment #46638643
Author here. Yes you're right in that it's not real ASCII, but more ASCII-esque. I took some artistic liberty to do everything on the GPU, if I had done true ASCII I would have had…
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Comment #46638583
Author here. Haha that's so creative! I definitely thought about lowering the limit, but then it wouldn't really be ASCII-esque lol. I might just lower it so that you don't have to…
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Comment #46638544
Author here. Interesting idea, I might have to tinker with it!
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Comment #46638529
Author here. Wow that's so cool! I've never heard of browsh but it's so cool to see that my site (which was built to be as static as possible) works well and even renders the WebGL…
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Comment #46638447
Author here, looks great! Thanks for sharing!
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Comment #46638392
Author here. Interesting point about the satellite-view clouds, I'm not very familiar with that domain. But I can point you to the article I read about domain warping on top of noi…
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Comment #46638336
Author here. P5JS is great and I've used it in the past. However you can get pretty far with just VanillaJS. Here's the source code to the ASCII Clouds tool, it's almost all plain …
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Comment #46638149
Author here. Thanks so much for the rad reply and enthusiasm! So glad I could help inspire you, and please feel free to use this for any art you make, just tag me on socials or sen…
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Comment #46638125
Author here. It’s likely the noise amount you’ve set or the glyph thresholds. I’m still tweaking it and trying to get it to be a bit more consistent.