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My winter break project — Silk

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Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by kaiwetzel »

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.

Could work well printed by mykea - http://www.thisismykea.com/ too. Is it easy to generate a larger resolution from a recording for printing?

I love generative art and this looks very polished - the sparkles are a nice touch!

As someone else mentioned, the flags are easy to miss on a wide screen, maybe vertically align them with the content column?

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by yurivish »

DamonOehlman wrote: post #39

Absolutely gorgeous. Will be interested to see how our iOS version goes. I'm not sure if it will be of any help, but I have written an interaction "helper" library that is designed to make handling mouse and touch events consistent. If it is something that is useful, then let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. http://sidelab.github.com/interact/

Damon, the iOS version is being written natively for that platform in Objective-C. I've got many ideas to explore on the iPad and iPhone/iPod -- what's on the web is just a taste.

But thanks for the link! I'll keep it in mind if a use for it crops up.

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by biot »

callahad wrote: post #25
yurivish wrote: post #5

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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.

This one makes my display shimmer a little: http://peach.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/sun_session.png

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by grantj »

Encosia wrote: post #48
paulirish wrote: post #40

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I would imagine excanvas would struggle with this... however.. If Yury hasn't already, definitely give it a shot with FlashCanvas: http://flashcanvas.net/ Its performance is somewhere around 33x faster than the vml-based excanvas. (Yes, 3300% better.)

I get why that would be the issue for IE <9, but the latest preview version of 9 has canvas support. Hardware accelerated, even.

My guess is IE 9 doesn't supports the 'lighter' globalCompositeOperation on the canvas which is key to making the effect work. Without it I bet the lines look pretty dull.
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