Show HN: A Native Art Gallery for the Mac

Post by sgt » Thu, May 10, 2018, 7:52 AM UTC

archagon wrote: post #5

homeoffice1 wrote: post #2

That's a slick way to rotate images. Curious, can you name the paintings in the video?

Lessee... * "The Seasons: Autumn" — Alphonse Mucha * "A Winding Road" — Sir Matthew Smith * "Town View, Bogneux" — Anton Lindforss * "Sea and Sky" — Rafael Martínez Padilla * "The Ninth Wave" — Ivan Aivazovsky * "Forever with Moscow. Forever with the Russian People" — Mikhail Khmelko * "Tsar Dadon Before the Shemakha Queen" — Ivan Bilibin * "Paysage" — Jean Metzinger

Post by rimliu » Thu, May 10, 2018, 8:21 AM UTC

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #28

archagon wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was one of my original goals as well, but unfortunately there aren't many (any?) sources of downloadable art tagged with metadata. Hence, just the filename in the pop-up menu.

I realised the same thing when building Artpip and built up a database of ~25000 images and ~5000 artists via wikimedia's extremely unfriendly API. I've thought about creating an open dataset that is free to use/download (everything is in the public domain anyway). The thing is, I have around 250GB of images (all images available in 4k) and I'm put off by the cost of hosting. If I were to just serve 2K images then th…

Post by gbrindisi » Thu, May 10, 2018, 9:40 AM UTC

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #21

poignard wrote: post #4

I've been using an app called artpip for a while, it's great: https://www.artpip.com/

Creator of Artpip here. Came to suggest it as an alternative. Happy to answer any questions! Also @OP - you might want to take a look at the wallpaper-macos[0] lib that I developed for Artpip. It uses the nodobj node wrapper but it should be a useful reference. You don't need to read from the sqlite DB or deal with restarting the dock. You can reliably get the current wallpaper like so [1]. Also you might want to che…

Post by kalleboo » Thu, May 10, 2018, 10:45 AM UTC

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #28

archagon wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was one of my original goals as well, but unfortunately there aren't many (any?) sources of downloadable art tagged with metadata. Hence, just the filename in the pop-up menu.

I realised the same thing when building Artpip and built up a database of ~25000 images and ~5000 artists via wikimedia's extremely unfriendly API. I've thought about creating an open dataset that is free to use/download (everything is in the public domain anyway). The thing is, I have around 250GB of images (all images available in 4k) and I'm put off by the cost of hosting. If I were to just serve 2K images then th…

Post by Sidnicious » Thu, May 10, 2018, 1:05 PM UTC

archagon wrote: post #10

Sidnicious wrote: post #7

Another approach is to create a window at desktop level. It can even display a web page with a system web view — you probably want to opt the window out of receiving mouse events, too, to avoid interfering with drag selection on the Desktop. I do that at home with a local HTML file to randomly generate a desktop background at startup, and I’ve tried dynamic content (like a countdown clock). Code here: https://github.…

Neat! Do you know if this works well across Spaces? I went with the wallpaper approach because I figured it was likely to be the least error-prone, especially across OS updates.

    NSWindowCollectionBehaviorStationary | NSWindowCollectionBehaviorCanJoinAllSpaces