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Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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Love the faces your tool makes! So wonderfully weird. Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face

Reminds me of some of the characters from the old Moomins cartoon. https://www.dw.com/image/47520360_303.jpg

the first one it generated for me looked like Aunt Flo from Bod...

Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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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.

I hope you realize the extreme effect the completely outrageous decision to have randomize on by default has on people. Turn it off before someone goes crazy for real.

Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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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?

Nope.. Lets team up.

Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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I think you mean opt-a

The former will work if you have not taken the effort to enable key repeat.

So the traditional behaviour of 'key repeat' has been replaced by 'long press context menu'?

My initial reaction was one of revulsion ("Why do they need to meddle with everything") but after taking a few moments to calm down I realised I could get used to that change.

I think to make it attractive, I would want a quick way to switch between behaviours when I need them. From what I can see, the change between 'long press' and 'key repeat' is effected by launching Terminal, making a configuration change and restarting the machine. I find this unappealing.

https://www.howtogeek.com/267463/how-to-enable-key-repeating...

Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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The former will work if you have not taken the effort to enable key repeat.

So the traditional behaviour of 'key repeat' has been replaced by 'long press context menu'? My initial reaction was one of revulsion ("Why do they need to meddle with everything") but after taking a few moments to calm down I realised I could get used to that change. I think to make it attractive, I would want a quick way to switch between behaviours when I need them. From what I can see, the change between 'long pr…

Both work, as far as I know? They certainly seem to here.

Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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So the traditional behaviour of 'key repeat' has been replaced by 'long press context menu'? My initial reaction was one of revulsion ("Why do they need to meddle with everything") but after taking a few moments to calm down I realised I could get used to that change. I think to make it attractive, I would want a quick way to switch between behaviours when I need them. From what I can see, the change between 'long pr…

Both work, as far as I know? They certainly seem to here.

You have both behaviours simultaneously?

Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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this is actually a really cool, really fast-feedback way to see what tiny changes to the shape or positioning of a mouth or nose gives a dramatically different visual cue. People who've been drawing for years probably know all the little tweaks to make characters look differently, but as someone who isn't, I learnt a something new. Nice!

This is why I love drawing faces. Such a subtle change can make such a big difference to the end drawing. It's really interesting. I guess that's because our brains are so hard wired to process faces.

Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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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

Yep, I thought it was broken. Maybe a "randomize" button instead that you can press to randomize all variables would work better.

Re: Show HN: Face Generator

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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…

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