Big NO ! I can't say it is pointless, appreciate your effort. Didn't know pixijs has such great power, I've looked at the documentation, it is awesome :)
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#72Hey, I made something pointless too! http://mrucci.github.io/dumb-cat/
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My, where history's path takes us. I'm not really sure how to describe this feeling; a clever hacker put a boggled cat and pickles on a star field and it's clearly missing lasers. Like, I get there's a source GIF that inspired it, and lazoring pickles with a cat has that sort of pseudo randomness like 'purple monkey dishwasher'. But I still think it's strange that it stands out as an omission over, say, talking wrenc…
I think you're on to something here. I hadn't seen the cat/laser/cucumber gif prior to reading this thread (after visiting the demo), and after I noticed the cat following my mouse I tried clicking pickles with the expectation that they would be attacked by laser vision. It's odd that I can say straight-faced "of course you would expect lasers to shoot from that cat's eyes and destroy the pickle," but that I can't de…
I was going to leave a comment like "why isn't it shooting lasers at the pickles", but then I did a search in the page and found this comment thread. So... yeah. Our brains are all warped in the same way.
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#74Interesting. How do you plan on monetizing this? Are you accepting investors at this point?
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#75For 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.
Autoplaying music really should be avoided, though.
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#76I 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…
Well, I know what I'm doing for the rest of the day. (if it wasn't obvious, playing around with pixijs!)
I'll spend my day looking at pickles, thank you very much.
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Would love to hear more about how you generated the depth map - that's super cool.
I'm glad you asked! :) I created it in Adobe Illustrator using a gradient mesh: http://i.imgur.com/kuuFVO2.png Illustrator's gradient mesh tool lets you create a grid of points where you can choose a colour for each point. I overlayed the grid onto the sprite and estimated the distance at each point.
You mean each point?That's really tough work.
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#78I am... yes.
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#79Really cool, you could even make the cat sought of dance to the song by moving your cursor
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#80Seemed silly at first (well, still does, but in a good way). But from the comments in this thread, I realized this is actually a pretty cool demo. Completely unrelated to WebGL, but you might want to have the music loop forever or use a long playlist. That'd be neat - I have it open in background because the music is really sweet.
I was going to request the music loop as well, it's pretty good background audio.