Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes

#31

Post by diskzero » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 1:45 AM UTC

What a complete waste of time. I love it!!!

Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes

#32

Post by superasn » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 2:12 AM UTC

I think if you hide the video and just show the checkboxes it will be freaky cool.. still is though.

Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes

#33

Post by cpitman » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 2:35 AM UTC

javawizard wrote: post #19

This is great! It would be better if it dithered though.

I took a stab at a basic Floyd-Steinberg dither, but at the low resolution and with even really subtle video camera noise, the result was not great.

Until I took my glasses off... with just a bit of blur, the effect is pretty cool. Probably doesn't make sense to push a feature though that only works when you squint at it!

Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes

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Post by wilg » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 3:08 AM UTC

you made a whole page of checkboxes that i can't check AUUUUGHHH

Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes

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Post by frosted-flakes » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 3:12 AM UTC

wilg wrote: post #34

you made a whole page of checkboxes that i can't check AUUUUGHHH

I could check the ones on the bottom row.

Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes

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Post by julioc » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 4:35 AM UTC

Checkout the new CSS property `accent-color`, which allows you to customize checkbox colors

- https://web.dev/accent-color/ - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/accent-colo...

Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes

#37

Post by rnoorda » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 5:33 AM UTC

Love this! Your site sounded familiar, and I realized you're the guy with the After Dark screensavers. Thanks for doing interesting things.

Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes

#38

Post by thih9 » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 6:43 AM UTC

Feature request: I wish it had a demo that doesn’t require granting camera access. Maybe a short sample video or gif?

Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes

#39

Post by schmappel » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 2:38 PM UTC

rnoorda wrote: post #37

Love this! Your site sounded familiar, and I realized you're the guy with the After Dark screensavers. Thanks for doing interesting things.

Link for the lazy: https://www.bryanbraun.com/after-dark-css/

Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes

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Post by bryanbraun » Mon, Sep 13, 2021, 2:33 PM UTC

dafoex wrote: post #8

bryanbraun wrote: post #2

Some background: a little while ago I built a library called "Checkboxland" at the Recurse Center for rendering stuff into a checkbox grid. I recently made an update that lets it render arbitrary images and video. The video feature supports HTML MediaStream, which is what powers the webcam demo.

This is really fun! I'm not sure of the practicality (particularly with the QR demo, my boxes don't turn bright blue like yours apparently do, so its pretty invisible to a scanner) but if it looks cool then that's reason enough in itself

Yeah, the boxes are bit brighter by default in Safari, so that's the browser I tend to use for screenshots and video.