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Re: Show HN: Boing

#141

Post by gregsadetsky »

ianberdin wrote: post #137
junon wrote: post #6

Love this. Had to cheat, naturally. setInterval(()=>{const canvas=document.getElementById('canvas');const startX=266;const startY=198;const rect=canvas.getBoundingClientRect();const startClientX=rect.left+startX;const startClientY=rect.top+startY;let endClientX,endClientY,distance;do{endClientX=Math.random()*window.innerWidth;endClientY=Math.random()*window.innerHeight;const dx=endClientX-startClientX;const dy=endCli…

https://boing.playcode.io

DAMN. can you try to bring in my physics code (err it'd have to be 3d-ified, but still)? was this oneshotted-ish?

cheers, 3d is glorious.

Re: Show HN: Boing

#142

Post by gregsadetsky »

pierrec wrote: post #140
gregsadetsky wrote: post #138

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I'm extremely grateful for this. My most deeply held secret is that I wish I could do this for a living - digitally modeling weird/beautiful objects/instruments and work on that forever haha. (And maybe make pedals out of them, I don't know) If you don't mind humoring me (I'm quite the novice in this field), if I automated the recording of "all" possible positions for a spring (say I had a motor positioned in a way t…

That's funny, I was trying to do other stuff after posting my comment, but my brain kept working in the background, against my will, looking for the best approach to actually model this. Honestly, I was probably being pessimistic about the difficulty of a synthesized version, but I still think your current approach (don't synthesize, use samples) is more reasonable and can be made more responsive. I don't think that…

I'm deeply, extremely, super duper grateful for all of this. Thanks a ton!

Re: Show HN: Boing

#143

Post by brcmthrowaway »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #60
brcmthrowaway wrote: post #56

AI?

Yes! I've been toying with this project idea for a few ~months, trying out most of the models out there. The physics and the look of the spring would come out quite crazy looking, so I put it on the back burner. This is not an ad, there's no affiliate link... but the physics & drawing code were one shot by the recently released Gemini 3 Pro. It was pretty incredible to see. Additional tweaks & boing counter server by…

Sad

Re: Show HN: Boing

#144

Post by brcmthrowaway »

mythz wrote: post #67

This takes me back a few years when the first of my Uni friends had a baby, they spoiled him with so many toys that their lounge room was like an obstacle field where you had to be careful where to step, but despite all his toys the baby spent all his time while I was there playing with the door spring. There's something therapeutic about door springs, that you just have to stop and play with it.

Jesus christ, who has a baby during university

Re: Show HN: Boing

#145

Post by gregsadetsky »

brcmthrowaway wrote: post #143
gregsadetsky wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes! I've been toying with this project idea for a few ~months, trying out most of the models out there. The physics and the look of the spring would come out quite crazy looking, so I put it on the back burner. This is not an ad, there's no affiliate link... but the physics & drawing code were one shot by the recently released Gemini 3 Pro. It was pretty incredible to see. Additional tweaks & boing counter server by…

Sad

Sorry to disappoint you!

Re: Show HN: Boing

#146

Post by defrost »

brcmthrowaway wrote: post #144
mythz wrote: post #67

This takes me back a few years when the first of my Uni friends had a baby, they spoiled him with so many toys that their lounge room was like an obstacle field where you had to be careful where to step, but despite all his toys the baby spent all his time while I was there playing with the door spring. There's something therapeutic about door springs, that you just have to stop and play with it.

Jesus christ, who has a baby during university

* I recall when the first of my primary school friends had a baby ... some years after we all left primary school.

* I recall when Cheryl had her first baby while at University. I also recall when she had her second.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Praeger

Maybe work on making more insightful and considered comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=brcmthrowaway

Re: Show HN: Boing

#148

Post by jonplackett »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #99
kentiko wrote: post #80

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Nice, could you share how you implemented it?

Flask + SQLite in WAL mode. In-memory ip address rate limiting. Hosted and deployed on a ~$20 EC2 server using the open source tool I've been working on, https://disco.cloud/ We were at ~120 requests/second earlier and it took it on, no sweat.

May be worth sending your boings in batches!

Re: Show HN: Boing

#149

Post by gregsadetsky »

jonplackett wrote: post #147
gregsadetsky wrote: post #68

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alright, I implemented a world boing counter :-) thanks for the great idea

Amazing! The numbers are insane already! What is the average boing per user?

Ooh, great question! I don’t record IPs so can’t say unfortunately.
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