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Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 10:09 PM UTC

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Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by treeface » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 10:09 PM UTC

I couldn't find an uncompressed version of your source on your site. Are you planning on releasing the JS source, or at least telling us a little more about the nitty-gritty of how this is done? I assume it's some sort of well-decorated Perlin noise generator, but I'm not too familiar with how those are made.

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by obeattie » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 10:11 PM UTC

vaksel wrote: post #14

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

Undo is really the only thing I think it's missing too. Absolutely love the site… beautiful work, guys!

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by yurivish » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 10:12 PM UTC

bgraves wrote: post #8

Stunning! Can you give us some technical details? How are you producing the images (libraries, custom scripts, etc.)? I've thought about a project like this (your execution is light-years ahead of anything I could accomplish) using Nodebox -perhaps- as an excuse to learn something new about python. Edit: I see it's in JavaScript? Excellent! Any other tools or techniques you found helpful would be interesting to read.…

I will probably set up a blog and write up some posts on the experience of making it sometime soon. :-)

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by callahad » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 10:19 PM UTC

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.

It's probably this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Twm_en.pn...

The "probably" up there makes me sad; I miss my Linux desktops.

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by Alex3917 » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 10:26 PM UTC

It's cool to see this sort of technology in a web browser, although for the iPhone/iPad I think some of the pre-existing generative art apps are currently better: Art of Glow, SpawnHD, Little Uzu, etc. I'm sure this is still a work on progress, but just make sure you keep an eye on what's already out there.

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by jackowayed » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 10:28 PM UTC

This is awesome.

Making it so users can download the silks they make would be nice. Using your silk as my background is cool, but using my own is even better :)

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by alex_c » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 10:48 PM UTC

jackowayed wrote: post #27

This is awesome. Making it so users can download the silks they make would be nice. Using your silk as my background is cool, but using my own is even better :)

If I could download the images with a transparent background, I would probably use them as a design element on pages I need to spruce up.

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by andresmh » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 10:49 PM UTC

I love how this is all JS (no Flash!). Impressive. BTW this reminds me a bit to my friend's project http://glowdoodle.com

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by albertsun » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 11:02 PM UTC

I love how the instructions are presented one at a time each time you start a new Silk. It's subtle and it's great as I can immediately get started and each time I do it again I have a new feature to play with.