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My winter break project — Silk

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Re: My winter break project — Silk

#11

Post by hyperbovine »

yurivish wrote: post #5
jcr wrote: post #2

I'm probably the wrong person to reply here... As someone who never uses "desktop" or "background" images, I actually do think the example images are beautiful and enjoyable. I'll admit there are probably very few idiots like me who refuse to use background image decorations, but let me explain why as well as what. The background image I use on X is called the "root weave" and although it is horribly ugly, it is exce…

That's a pretty interesting idea; do you have links to the "root weave" image? I googled but the search didn't turn anything up. I'm not sure it's quite the direction I want to take Silk, but thanks for sharing -- I never thought about using desktop images for a pragmatic purpose such as that.

This is the only picture I could find:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3590/3621951455_9632ff862f.jp...

Apparently root weave was done away with in X11R7.5, who knew? (Can still be enabled with the -retro flag.)

Congrats on a very slick web app, btw. Often when I see a project posted here I think to myself, "I could have done that, but am too lazy." :-) However, your idea is highly original and superbly executed. Well beyond my ken, not that that means anything.

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by jcr »

yurivish wrote: post #5
jcr wrote: post #2

I'm probably the wrong person to reply here... As someone who never uses "desktop" or "background" images, I actually do think the example images are beautiful and enjoyable. I'll admit there are probably very few idiots like me who refuse to use background image decorations, but let me explain why as well as what. The background image I use on X is called the "root weave" and although it is horribly ugly, it is exce…

That's a pretty interesting idea; do you have links to the "root weave" image? I googled but the search didn't turn anything up. I'm not sure it's quite the direction I want to take Silk, but thanks for sharing -- I never thought about using desktop images for a pragmatic purpose such as that.

The various test images, including the rootweave, can be found in Xorg/XFree CVS:

http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/data/bitmaps/

In the past I've read analysis/explanation regarding the various test images, why they were created and how they should be used, but that was a very long time ago. You'll probably need to do a bit of digging to find such information.

Pure beauty is commendable as well as commonly desirable. Pure function is also commendable but far less commonly desirable. A blend of both is often superior to either.

I think would be unwise to cater function solely towards people doing debugging since it would severely limit the market, but making something both gorgeous and useful will have a stronger appeal than just gorgeous.

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by yurivish »

vaksel wrote: post #14

as far as suggestions it really needs the undo button. Also the new button really needs to be more prominent

You can hit "replay" bottom left -- it'll replay your cleared silk.

And yes, the UI needs some changes -- I'll be updating stuff and A/B testing it during the course of the next several weeks.

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by hkuo »

adatta02 wrote: post #3

That looks pretty amazing. Check out Fracture - http://www.fractureme.com/ - I bet they would look unreal printed with their tech.

Thanks for this link! I hadn't heard of them before. I just showed my wife and we're going to test out a few prints.
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