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Re: Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser

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Post by seszett » Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 10:25 AM UTC

seszett wrote: post #6

Very nice, I could suggest two more factors influencing growth that are important for plants: geotropism and phototropism. Geotropism basically makes plants grow away from the source of gravity, and phototropism makes them grow towards light (and that is usually reversed for roots).

To OP, I don't know why but you're apparently shadowbanned, and your comments appear "dead" even after vouching for them.

Probably an automated heuristic, you might want to send an email to mods so they can reverse it.

Re: Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser

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Post by solarkraft » Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 10:57 AM UTC

seszett wrote: post #11

seszett wrote: post #6

Very nice, I could suggest two more factors influencing growth that are important for plants: geotropism and phototropism. Geotropism basically makes plants grow away from the source of gravity, and phototropism makes them grow towards light (and that is usually reversed for roots).

To OP, I don't know why but you're apparently shadowbanned, and your comments appear "dead" even after vouching for them. Probably an automated heuristic, you might want to send an email to mods so they can reverse it.

I vouched too, the two comments seem restored now.

Re: Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser

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Post by serf » Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC

totetsu wrote: post #3

many years ago I used the safety filter data set from google quick-draw to do something similar with dick sketches.

I thought that moderation was done mostly manually?

oh I think you mean the filter on the game portion?

Re: Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser

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Post by bartvk » Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 11:13 AM UTC

dnmc wrote: post #9

bartvk wrote: post #7

I appreciate that it's beautiful and awesome, but when the complete screen was filled, I wanted a flamethrower option.

Hah, believe me, the flamethrower feature is first in line for the v2 milestone!

I'd like it but don't listen to me and please just stay in love with programming because this is such an awesome little project.

Re: Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser

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Post by spuz » Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 12:26 PM UTC

This completely killed my OS and nearly took the PC with it. It started running ok but as it filled the screen, the FPS dropped and then my browser stopped responding, then the mouse started moving VERY slowly and then the screen went black and my Bluetooth got disconnected. At that point, even long-pressing the power off button did nothing and I had to switch off the PC at the wall...

I am going to put the blame on Firefox and Linux Mint but it's honestly impressive how a simple animated simulation can do this.

Re: Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser

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Post by dnmc » Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 2:09 PM UTC

spuz wrote: post #15

This completely killed my OS and nearly took the PC with it. It started running ok but as it filled the screen, the FPS dropped and then my browser stopped responding, then the mouse started moving VERY slowly and then the screen went black and my Bluetooth got disconnected. At that point, even long-pressing the power off button did nothing and I had to switch off the PC at the wall... I am going to put the blame on…

Oh no! I can run it on my phone, which is a few years old, so I figured it wouldn't lock anybody's computers up.

It's pretty CPU-heavy because it's constantly creating and updating SVG elements. I may attempt to rewrite sometime with WebGL and shaders :)

Re: Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser

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Post by butvacuum » Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 2:31 PM UTC

spuz wrote: post #15

This completely killed my OS and nearly took the PC with it. It started running ok but as it filled the screen, the FPS dropped and then my browser stopped responding, then the mouse started moving VERY slowly and then the screen went black and my Bluetooth got disconnected. At that point, even long-pressing the power off button did nothing and I had to switch off the PC at the wall... I am going to put the blame on…

I have never seen a long press fail to cut power- assuming it works at all. I've never heard of it being tied to CPU state.

Re: Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser

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Post by saaaaaam » Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC

dnmc wrote: post #9

bartvk wrote: post #7

I appreciate that it's beautiful and awesome, but when the complete screen was filled, I wanted a flamethrower option.

Hah, believe me, the flamethrower feature is first in line for the v2 milestone!

It would also be really nice if you could snip bits, pruning what is growing - with cuts causing something different to happen...

Re: Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser

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Post by DANmode » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 6:50 PM UTC

dnmc wrote: post #16

spuz wrote: post #15

This completely killed my OS and nearly took the PC with it. It started running ok but as it filled the screen, the FPS dropped and then my browser stopped responding, then the mouse started moving VERY slowly and then the screen went black and my Bluetooth got disconnected. At that point, even long-pressing the power off button did nothing and I had to switch off the PC at the wall... I am going to put the blame on…

Oh no! I can run it on my phone, which is a few years old, so I figured it wouldn't lock anybody's computers up. It's pretty CPU-heavy because it's constantly creating and updating SVG elements. I may attempt to rewrite sometime with WebGL and shaders :)

Check out Canvas 2D if you haven’t.