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

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Post by mcjiggerlog »

H4CK3RM4N wrote: post #32
mcjiggerlog wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Interesting. Yeah, I can do that.

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

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Post by mcjiggerlog »

bananaboy wrote: post #28
mcjiggerlog wrote: post #2

Creator 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.

If you don't mind my asking, are you making money from this? Maybe you could do an interview over at indiehackers.com!

I was trying to support it through the print sales at first and that was nowhere near covering costs as there wasn't much interest to be honest.

The Pro version was only launched last week, so still early days!

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

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Post by mcjiggerlog »

visarga wrote: post #34
cocacola1 wrote: post #7

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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.

Don't take this as an officially supported feature, but http://artpip.com/live exists if you want to simply display the featured artwork on a second monitor in a fullscreen browser. It should refresh and stay up to date.

I'm using it to power my ghetto live painting - http://i.imgur.com/bNDEZTu.jpg

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

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Post by scandox »

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #2

Creator 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.

Could we have discovery mode for unknown/new artists' work?

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

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Post by connorcpu »

voltagex_ wrote: post #31
H4CK3RM4N wrote: post #30

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But it's not an UWP.

Yep. You can now call these APIs from the desktop, AFAIK.

There may be a little more to it, but sadly after setting it up for a couple hours, it seems the TrySetLockScreenImageAsync method always returns failure from a non-UWP app :(

If anyone else wants to tinker with it https://gist.github.com/Connicpu/8b092b2c0ad539573b893dbca54...

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

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Post by voltagex_ »

connorcpu wrote: post #47
voltagex_ wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. You can now call these APIs from the desktop, AFAIK.

There may be a little more to it, but sadly after setting it up for a couple hours, it seems the TrySetLockScreenImageAsync method always returns failure from a non-UWP app :( If anyone else wants to tinker with it https://gist.github.com/Connicpu/8b092b2c0ad539573b893dbca54...

Sorry. Seems it's limited in what paths pictures can be loaded from. Bloody Microsoft.

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

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Post by kojoru »

speps wrote: post #6
mcjiggerlog wrote: post #2

Creator 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.

Could it update the lock screen picture as well? I find that a lot more interesting than the desktop which I barely ever see.

There's another project that does exactly that, City Art Search: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/city-art-search/9wzd...

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

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Post by mcjiggerlog »

scandox wrote: post #46
mcjiggerlog wrote: post #2

Creator 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.

Could we have discovery mode for unknown/new artists' work?

I'd definitely like to support current artists at some point. I wasn't sure what the best way to build up a library would be, though. I guess just manually contacting artists.
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