Show HN: Color Orbs (Generative Art)

Post by dannyking » Wed, May 04, 2022, 7:02 PM UTC

hypertele-Xii wrote: post #20

dannyking wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. On the size of the art, with this art project I'm limited to the size of the orbs being 300x300px as the way I implemented the drawing algorithm unfortunately means I can't scale up the size of a render without changing the random seed and causing a different image to be created. So these are necessarily limited to that smaller size unless I introduce pixellation. For future…

Very good. > On the gallery page not working, could you let me know what browser and device you're using? Firefox on Windows desktop. Further testing reveals that the animation is stuck while the page is loading. So if I click on an orb it won't move until the page has fully loaded (and the gallery takes a long time to load). Actually I'm not sure why but the gallery page seems to get stuck loading for some reason, a…

Post by oknoorap » Fri, May 06, 2022, 9:20 AM UTC

dannyking wrote: post #13

oknoorap wrote: post #12

I am interested, is this open source?

It's not I'm afraid, no. To be honest I'm embarrassed about the code quality, since I mostly just hacked it together for myself and was a hobby project more than anything else, so I didn't release the source anywhere or think much about licenses. Having said that, here are the two JS files that power the "make your own color orb" browser tool: https://www.dannyking.uk/js/colororbs/dna.js https://www.dannyking.uk/js/c…