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??? http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/2015/11/uwp-lock-screen.html
But it's not an UWP.
Yep. You can now call these APIs from the desktop, AFAIK.
Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop
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Could it update the lock screen picture as well? I find that a lot more interesting than the desktop which I barely ever see.
I presume you mean on Windows. Unfortunately this is pretty difficult. I'd like to make it happen so I'll look into it again at some point.
I use a screensaver on my Mac, and it seems like it refuses to recognise the image in ~/Library/Application Support/Artpip/images as an inmate without the .jpg extension. Is there any chance of you changing the images to use a .jpg extension, so I can set my screensaver to use your folder automatically.
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#33I made a similar project for myself. Downloaded a bunch of painting torrents and set them as auto-changing backgrounds at interval of 5 minutes. For about 2 years I set a second monitor to work as a museum tour - to walk me through art. I watched Hermitage, Sotheby's and another one with 50K paintings on random mode.
An important feature was that I engraved the name of the author and painting on the images themselves in order to remember what I like most (hint: Hermitage is full of excellent portraits of russian aristocracy). After some time, visual detail begins to open up and art appreciation increases. We just need exposure.
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#34Creator here! Artpip started off as a side project to help me learn a bit more about art in general and has grown from there. It's been great fun making it and I have learnt A LOT about art history in the process. I can now recognise a lot of painters and have got pretty good at dating/categorising paintings (compared to before, at least!). Happy to answer any questions.
Any resources you can suggest to learn more about art history? Preferably some books as well. I like the idea, though. I don't really look at my desktop very often, but this might give me that push. Question on the project, though. Whenever I step away from my laptop for a minute, I have a hot corner to display a screen saver. Any way of using this as a substitute for the screen savers, so it'll just cycle art?
> I don't really look at my desktop very often
Use an older second monitor that you have laying around. Its proximity to the main monitor will place the paintings right in your viewfield, but your work on the main monitor will be unaffected. When you take a breather you can enjoy art.
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#35This is really great. Would love to see a version available for Smart TVs.
Art software startups are a tough proposition. Google invests heavily in art and offers it on Chromecast as a screensaver. Amazon does the same on Fire Stick. Neither is customizable nor allows any interaction and discovery, but it's just good enough as free to make it tough to do anything unique at the consumer end. Art is low on the list of things most people want to access regularly, let alone pay for. I had a sta…
> I think there are several markets in art delivery but it will take connections, money, and luck to prise it open.
Curious about this. I love art and visit musuems regularly.
The first time I saw a van Gogh at d'Orsay I got goose pimples. A flat 2D image on my laptop or a TV does not come anywhere close to the experience of seeing the painting itself.
Aren't musuems the best 'art delivery' mechanism there is?
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#36This is really great. Would love to see a version available for Smart TVs.
Art software startups are a tough proposition. Google invests heavily in art and offers it on Chromecast as a screensaver. Amazon does the same on Fire Stick. Neither is customizable nor allows any interaction and discovery, but it's just good enough as free to make it tough to do anything unique at the consumer end. Art is low on the list of things most people want to access regularly, let alone pay for. I had a sta…
What I'd like to see is 4K images from my favourite photographers on Instagram, displayed from a small device that I can plug into a spare port on a TV (or a smart TV app, I suppose). I'd pay a subscription for that (of course, I might be the only one :))
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#37Creator here! Artpip started off as a side project to help me learn a bit more about art in general and has grown from there. It's been great fun making it and I have learnt A LOT about art history in the process. I can now recognise a lot of painters and have got pretty good at dating/categorising paintings (compared to before, at least!). Happy to answer any questions.
Any resources you can suggest to learn more about art history? Preferably some books as well. I like the idea, though. I don't really look at my desktop very often, but this might give me that push. Question on the project, though. Whenever I step away from my laptop for a minute, I have a hot corner to display a screen saver. Any way of using this as a substitute for the screen savers, so it'll just cycle art?
L’Histoire de l’art (History of art) lectures by Élie Faure
Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop
#38I have just installed it and I really love it! I think it's the first app that convinced me in less than 5 minutes to pay for the premium package. Keep up the good work.
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#39Artpip is great, use it for months now, really love it! There is one thing though: I also have LittleSnitch installed and it shows that Artpip often tries to connect to direct IPs. Personally, I don't like giving apps permissions to connect to some random IPs. Would be nice if it used something more meaningful, like images.artpip.com.
Images should be behind images.artpip.com, e.g. https://images.artpip.com/artist-images/s0/Y6/jG-small.jpg
I'll take a look into what's causing that.
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#40Creator here! Artpip started off as a side project to help me learn a bit more about art in general and has grown from there. It's been great fun making it and I have learnt A LOT about art history in the process. I can now recognise a lot of painters and have got pretty good at dating/categorising paintings (compared to before, at least!). Happy to answer any questions.
The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum has a large collection of high resolution pictures available for download https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio without cost. If you make a collection that fit a screen or with proper cropping and have each individual user create it's own account it would save you the bandwidth :-)
I've been burned too many times by hotlinking to third parties and then having the source disappear on me.
Thanks for the link though, I'll look into including some of the imagery.