Show HN: PolyGen App, turn gradients and photos into pretty low poly patterns

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Post by nbartlomiej » Thu, Jan 29, 2015, 4:12 PM UTC

Show HN: PolyGen App, turn gradients and photos into pretty low poly patterns
polygenapp.com

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Post by robinhoodexe » Thu, Jan 29, 2015, 4:26 PM UTC

I like it

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Post by btbuildem » Thu, Jan 29, 2015, 4:32 PM UTC

Crop seems constrained to the aspect ratio of the original image - is that a bug or a feature?

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Post by nbartlomiej » Thu, Jan 29, 2015, 4:41 PM UTC

btbuildem wrote: post #3

Crop seems constrained to the aspect ratio of the original image - is that a bug or a feature?

Crop aspect ratio matches the "Size" setting, located one screen earlier; so it's a feature for now. I plan to revisit the crop screen sometime in future and bring more control there. Thanks for your comment!

Re: Show HN: PolyGen App, turn gradients and photos into pretty low poly patterns

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Post by andrewrice » Thu, Jan 29, 2015, 4:44 PM UTC

Reminds me a bit of "trianglify", a low-poly background generator built on d3.js: https://github.com/qrohlf/trianglify

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Post by mbrock » Thu, Jan 29, 2015, 4:45 PM UTC

I'm curious about how well this works on videos...

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Post by KnightHawk3 » Thu, Jan 29, 2015, 4:46 PM UTC

Why did you decide to make this mobile only?

Personally I would use it the most from my computer, considered a port ;)

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Post by gravitronic » Thu, Jan 29, 2015, 4:47 PM UTC

my favorite bot in this gene is on twitter:

https://twitter.com/lowpolybot

Re: Show HN: PolyGen App, turn gradients and photos into pretty low poly patterns

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Post by nbartlomiej » Thu, Jan 29, 2015, 4:50 PM UTC

andrewrice wrote: post #5

Reminds me a bit of "trianglify", a low-poly background generator built on d3.js: https://github.com/qrohlf/trianglify

I've tried d3.js, but decided to go with iron wallaby's delaunay (https://github.com/ironwallaby/delaunay) implementation for performance reasons. The difference was especially visible when working with photos.

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Post by nbartlomiej » Thu, Jan 29, 2015, 5:08 PM UTC

KnightHawk3 wrote: post #7

Why did you decide to make this mobile only? Personally I would use it the most from my computer, considered a port ;)

I'll be happy to make a desktop version if users want it. Comment here, reply to this tweet (https://twitter.com/polygenapp/status/560846810735206400 ) or let me know in any way if you're interested.

Edit - And as for "why mobile-first", I wanted to make the app casual and approachable. You can take a photo of your teacup and have a cool low poly version of it in an instant. Or generate a pretty colourful wallpaper with one tap. But I'd love to build a desktop version too. Larger screen and finer control over the pointer would give some new possibilities.

Edit 2 - In case somebody didn't notice, you can generate a wallpaper for your desktop from the mobile app. Just choose a desktop option in the "Size" setting.