Very fun and nostalgic. The head of the boinger doesn't seem to exactly follow the cursor/finger however, at least on mobile, it always arcs.
Are you seeing the small dotted lines when pulling very far? It's meant to show the applied tension
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Make sure to unmute your device - either using the physical mute rocker on older iPhones, or by disabling Silent Mode (tap the bell in the Control Center)
That already was the case; no sound
Just downloaded Firefox on iOS and tested it and sound works here - can you check this other site please: https://learningsynths.ableton.com/ ?
There will also be no sound there if your phone is in Silence mode. However if Learning Synths works but not mine, then something else is happening.
Thanks!
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#103Can we add accelerometer support? :D
on iOS at least, that requires an additional permission, and it would take some work to get the feeling right on both iOS and Android
but I agree - I have some other mono-site-ideas like these in mind, and I think that the accelerator could be very fun. thanks for the suggestion!
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#104Funny thing: this feels "realistic" because it’s not perfect physics. A perfectly simulated Hooke's law spring actually looks fake and too stiff. But if you let the animation wobble a bit more and slow down the damping, our brain reads it as weight and squishiness. It’s basically controlled sloppiness.
Elasto Mania is a great game from decades ago (but still for sale!) that exploits this fact to a hilarious extent. You control a motor bike with excessively wobbly physics making all kinds of stunts possible (and necessary, to complete the levels) that are spectacular and surprising. https://elastomania.com/
Wait. Is Jelly Car basically a rethinking of this? I never managed to have the elasto games, but looking at the trailer, there’s a lot of similarities.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
I considered it for a minute, but then I remembered https://xkcd.com/1138/ .. ha. but let me know if you have other thoughts about this
Heatmap based on coordinates of the start of the boing!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh wow I'm dumb. working on it
EDIT: done! deploying.
wow ok that was a really good idea.
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#107Man, slow MO + plot the vibration freq on the axis.
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#108absolute peak, love it
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#109Funny thing: this feels "realistic" because it’s not perfect physics. A perfectly simulated Hooke's law spring actually looks fake and too stiff. But if you let the animation wobble a bit more and slow down the damping, our brain reads it as weight and squishiness. It’s basically controlled sloppiness.
Hooke's law is what's not not perfect physics, but an idealized version of a spring. No real spring (that we'd recognize as a spring) actually obeys it perfectly, because there is damping and friction and a bunch of things that Hooke's law does not factor in.
To get somewhat more realistic model of a spring, you a damping term, which turns it into an ODE[1].
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#110Is this physics based audio?
It's not, unfortunately. I'd love to find a synthesized version of a boing sound. Perhaps some folks with modular experience could chime in?
My best offering is the engine sim which may or may not have a lib. https://github.com/ange-yaghi/engine-sim If nothing else, it’s a brilliant, novel oddity.