Running on iPhone 5 with iOS7 seeing a weird issue where only about the top third of the photo is rendering.
Works fine when rendering with colors.
Anyone else seen something like this?
Show HN: PolyGen App, turn gradients and photos into pretty low poly patterns
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#32This reminds me of voronoi diagrams, except the vertices seem to be applied as a best-fit around contrast and hue differences--then the cell being filled with the average color of such.
Beautiful. I bet you could get some very nice results if you use a Voronoi diagram using the color gradient as distance function. Even better if you chose points not randomly, but based on the slope of this distance, so they're concentrated in "feature points".
Re: Show HN: PolyGen App, turn gradients and photos into pretty low poly patterns
#33Oh man I am working on a very similar app, you beat me to it. :)
Re: Show HN: PolyGen App, turn gradients and photos into pretty low poly patterns
#34Neat app. A cool feature would be the ability to extract colors from a photo (like Adobe Kuler) and use those in the Abstract Colors pattern.
Re: Show HN: PolyGen App, turn gradients and photos into pretty low poly patterns
#35Why did you decide to make this mobile only? Personally I would use it the most from my computer, considered a port ;)
I'll be happy to make a desktop version if users want it. Comment here, reply to this tweet ( https://twitter.com/polygenapp/status/560846810735206400 ) or let me know in any way if you're interested. Edit - And as for "why mobile-first", I wanted to make the app casual and approachable. You can take a photo of your teacup and have a cool low poly version of it in an instant. Or generate a pretty colourful wallpaper…
10 years ago, I would never have guessed that I would be finding a new application on my laptop, sending a link to my phone, installing the app on my phone, generating an image, and then emailing myself an attachment back to my laptop to be used as my desktop background.
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#36It's nice, good work. I wonder if you might be better off without the ads though. Not much revenue, and without them you can possibly build a bigger user base as a reputation point for your resume.
$1 may be too much friction at this point. Not something most people consider must-have, but willing to put up with ads to fiddle with.
I think the suggestion was to give a clean version of the thing away
Re: Show HN: PolyGen App, turn gradients and photos into pretty low poly patterns
#37Haven't tried it out yet, but looks nice.
Surprised to see that this wasn't authored by Mario Klingemann, creator of the very clever LowpolyBot:
Re: Show HN: PolyGen App, turn gradients and photos into pretty low poly patterns
#38The regenerate button seems to cycle (inconsistently?) thru the grain sizes. Undesirable; if I pick a grain size and regenerate, I'm looking for a suitable arrangement at that size. Otherwise, nifty!
The "refresh" button randomises as much as it can, but you can prevent a section from being randomised by "locking" it (clicking on the tiny lock icon). So you can pick a size, lock it and hit "refresh" as much as you wish. I'm glad that you like the app, cheers!
Ah, didn't realize "refresh" was randomizing my prior-chosen settings; thought it should just re-apply those settings to the randomization process.
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#39Show HN, version 3.x ..... soooo not "new" ? :)
but it looks nice! downloading now.
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#40I am surprised nothing showed up on the mac app store for "low poly art" I would pay for such an app.