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Re: Show HN: Something pointless I made

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Post by niuzeta » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 1:22 AM UTC

I did not know my weekend hadn't completed until I saw this.

Re: Show HN: Something pointless I made

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Post by auston » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 1:23 AM UTC

@dhotson - please be sure to auction this site for art basel :)

Re: Show HN: Something pointless I made

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Post by beeboop » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 1:28 AM UTC

dhotson wrote: post #14

orliesaurus wrote: post #13

Uncaught Error: This browser does not support webGL. Try using the canvas renderer :( :( :( :( :(

Ah bummer, WebGL is pretty widely supported but still not quite 100% -- http://caniuse.com/#feat=webgl

I thought PixiJS was supposed to fall back to canvas if WebGL isn't enabled?

Re: Show HN: Something pointless I made

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Post by Kortaggio » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 1:28 AM UTC

For everyone wondering "What's the music in the background?" It's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsMewmMTA_c cleverly linked to via an autoplaying, hidden embedded iframe in the page.

Re: Show HN: Something pointless I made

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Post by aakilfernandes » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 1:29 AM UTC

Well, this is just plain silly.

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Post by pcunite » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 1:41 AM UTC

Scrubbing my eyes with my toothbrush ... please don't down vote me ... the sting from close-up is painful enough.

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Post by namuol » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 1:44 AM UTC

dhotson wrote: post #2

I made this demo using http://www.pixijs.com/ Something I'm really happy with is the psuedo-3d effect on the cat using a displacement map. I took the cat sprite ( http://dn.ht/picklecat/mesmercat.png ) and made a "depth map" ( http://dn.ht/picklecat/mesmercatdisplacement.jpg ) where white is closest and black is furthest. This information is used to determine how far to move the underlying pixels. It's enough to give…

Yeah I came here to ask how you did the faux-3d cat. It's very subtle, but effective as hell. I thought you were using some kind of fancy parallax shader, but I can see how a displacement map can approximate the same thing. Awesome!

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Post by jhallenworld » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 1:51 AM UTC

My 11 year old likes it, so I think you have succeeded in creating the next meme :-)

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 1:57 AM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Something pointless I made

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Post by bovermyer » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 1:58 AM UTC

I just spent somewhere around five-ten minutes staring at this.

I may have to rethink my life.