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Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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Post by tacotime »

blensor wrote: post #6
aljmyl wrote: post #2

This is a generative art tool I've made for plotter drawings. The UI is not the most intuitive and variables has been named badly - sorry for that. You may want to switch "randomize" off, so all variables are in use. Try out frepeatx and frepeaty, while randomization is on.

Funny thing, for some inexplicable reason playing around with the sliders made my feel agressive, not against something in particular but an overall feeling ( that's the best I can describe it ). At first I thought it was the unreal faces, but after reading about the randomness I figured out it was the jumping between completely unrelated faces. After switching off randomness I immediately felt calmer due to the smoo…

Very interesting! My immediate reaction/name for the feeling I had would be frustration. Your comment made me think about the possible connection between those two feeling and low and behold I quickly found this-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frustration–aggression_hypothe...

Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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Post by nmstoker »

jrugk wrote: post #18
aljmyl wrote: post #2

This is a generative art tool I've made for plotter drawings. The UI is not the most intuitive and variables has been named badly - sorry for that. You may want to switch "randomize" off, so all variables are in use. Try out frepeatx and frepeaty, while randomization is on.

"randomize" should be off by default. otherwise it simply looks like it's glitching when you touch any slider

Agreed. Otherwise it undermines the point of having controls.

If the random feature adjusted the settings then it might be a bit more acceptable but leaving them the same whilst drawing a dramatically different face breaks their "control" nature.

Once random is off, it's great fun!

Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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Post by carrolldunham »

blensor wrote: post #6
aljmyl wrote: post #2

This is a generative art tool I've made for plotter drawings. The UI is not the most intuitive and variables has been named badly - sorry for that. You may want to switch "randomize" off, so all variables are in use. Try out frepeatx and frepeaty, while randomization is on.

Funny thing, for some inexplicable reason playing around with the sliders made my feel agressive, not against something in particular but an overall feeling ( that's the best I can describe it ). At first I thought it was the unreal faces, but after reading about the randomness I figured out it was the jumping between completely unrelated faces. After switching off randomness I immediately felt calmer due to the smoo…

it made me angry too. i got the urge to jump on here and berate the creator for rationalised reasons. it's because the random flipping in response to your reasoned movement feels like an something between an insult and an assault

Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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Post by discordance »

aljmyl wrote: post #2

This is a generative art tool I've made for plotter drawings. The UI is not the most intuitive and variables has been named badly - sorry for that. You may want to switch "randomize" off, so all variables are in use. Try out frepeatx and frepeaty, while randomization is on.

Very cool. Just saw your old post asking about how to form a career around art and technology. I'm also interested in the same.

Got a contact?

Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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Post by devin »

blensor wrote: post #6
aljmyl wrote: post #2

This is a generative art tool I've made for plotter drawings. The UI is not the most intuitive and variables has been named badly - sorry for that. You may want to switch "randomize" off, so all variables are in use. Try out frepeatx and frepeaty, while randomization is on.

Funny thing, for some inexplicable reason playing around with the sliders made my feel agressive, not against something in particular but an overall feeling ( that's the best I can describe it ). At first I thought it was the unreal faces, but after reading about the randomness I figured out it was the jumping between completely unrelated faces. After switching off randomness I immediately felt calmer due to the smoo…

You should check out a talk about the myth of objective.

Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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Post by mrmonkeyman »

carrolldunham wrote: post #44
blensor wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny thing, for some inexplicable reason playing around with the sliders made my feel agressive, not against something in particular but an overall feeling ( that's the best I can describe it ). At first I thought it was the unreal faces, but after reading about the randomness I figured out it was the jumping between completely unrelated faces. After switching off randomness I immediately felt calmer due to the smoo…

it made me angry too. i got the urge to jump on here and berate the creator for rationalised reasons. it's because the random flipping in response to your reasoned movement feels like an something between an insult and an assault

Wow. You guys have issues.

Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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Post by ciroduran »

Consider submitting an article describing your algorithm to Seeds, submissions have been extended until next Friday 5th September. Seeds is a zine about generative software http://www.procjam.com/seeds/submit/

I've tried to make something like this as well, but I've probably aimed too high art-wise :) I really like the style of your generator.

Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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Post by aljmyl »

ciroduran wrote: post #49

Consider submitting an article describing your algorithm to Seeds, submissions have been extended until next Friday 5th September. Seeds is a zine about generative software http://www.procjam.com/seeds/submit/ I've tried to make something like this as well, but I've probably aimed too high art-wise :) I really like the style of your generator.

Great tip - thank you!
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