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Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop

#51

Post by aorth » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 8:57 AM UTC

Cool! Clearly it is inspired by Muzei for Android—you should at least give a shout out to them on your homepage.

Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop

#52

Post by retrac98 » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 9:25 AM UTC

Is this artwork only available at a maximum resolution of 4k, or is that a guaranteed minimum?

Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop

#53

Post by mcjiggerlog » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 9:33 AM UTC

retrac98 wrote: post #52

Is this artwork only available at a maximum resolution of 4k, or is that a guaranteed minimum?

4k is the maximum size available. If you have a screen with sufficient resolution, the app will use a 4k image. If you have a smaller screen it will use a smaller image.

Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop

#54

Post by anotheryou » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 9:39 AM UTC

I whished there was something like this with a modern curation. I'd probably hate even more pieces, but also have a higher chance to see something interesting.

Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop

#55

Post by Applejinx » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 10:04 AM UTC

As a McMansion Hell fan, I can only say:

An 'an art' app! :)

Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop

#56

Post by helb » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 10:21 AM UTC

dheera wrote: post #14

I had a lot of hope I could install it with pip ... and then found it was only for Windows and Mac -__- It would be really awesome if it worked like this: sudo pip install artpip artpip install starry-night

Well, you can run something like

    curl http://artpip.com/api/featured |
    jq ".artworks[0].url" |
    xargs -n1 curl > /tmp/wall.jpg &&
    feh --bg-fill /tmp/wall.jpg

via crontab every morning or so. But the dev(s) might not be happy about it (although the image itself is downloaded from Wikimedia, not artpip.com).

Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop

#57

Post by mcjiggerlog » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 10:32 AM UTC

helb wrote: post #56

dheera wrote: post #14

I had a lot of hope I could install it with pip ... and then found it was only for Windows and Mac -__- It would be really awesome if it worked like this: sudo pip install artpip artpip install starry-night

Well, you can run something like curl http://artpip.com/api/featured | jq ".artworks[0].url" | xargs -n1 curl > /tmp/wall.jpg && feh --bg-fill /tmp/wall.jpg via crontab every morning or so. But the dev(s) might not be happy about it (although the image itself is downloaded from Wikimedia, not artpip.com).

Fine by me. I think I've been convinced to make a lightweight command line version of the app anyway, so in the future there should be a prepackaged way of doing the above.

Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop

#58

Post by j7ake » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 10:40 AM UTC

Cool work but it seems to break my multiple desktop system... is this currently compatible with multiple desktops?

Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop

#59

Post by mcjiggerlog » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 10:53 AM UTC

j7ake wrote: post #58

Cool work but it seems to break my multiple desktop system... is this currently compatible with multiple desktops?

Do you mean multi-monitor or multi-workspace? I use it myself on a multi-monitor multi-workspace setup, so it sounds like a bug. Bug reports very welcome at support@artpip.com

Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop

#60

Post by drsim » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 10:55 AM UTC

tomkinstinch wrote: post #17

Nice! Similar to a side project of mine that I have sadly had little time to improve: http://artfulmac.com The bandwidth costs have become noticeable for me, so that's something to watch out for.

I really like Artful and am willing to support it so it's viable for you to continue