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An Unusual Paint Program

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Re: An Unusual Paint Program

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As a hacker who's always been fascinated with multimedia applications I thought it was a perfect fit.

Just clarifying in case that didn't come through as I thought, that was sarcasm. It wasn't a bad post. :)

The sarcasm didn't come through, sorry.

Re: An Unusual Paint Program

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does anyone know how you write code to implement drawing operations like this efficiently? i remember in the late 90s there was stuff you could do, for instance, where you had a large number of low-opacity swirling ellipse objects that looked like smoke (basically a very crude particle system) - and it brought my Pentium 3 450 to its knees. (this is what i'm referring to: http://www.presstube.com/project.php?id=212 )

have computers just gotten faster, or does Flash have some way of doing, say, hardware-accelerated graphics?

Re: An Unusual Paint Program

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Just clarifying in case that didn't come through as I thought, that was sarcasm. It wasn't a bad post. :)

The sarcasm didn't come through, sorry.

Recently it seems like almost every post has a comment thread about how the post isn't hacker news... those threads end up being more annoying than the posts imho.

Re: An Unusual Paint Program

#16

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The sarcasm didn't come through, sorry.

Recently it seems like almost every post has a comment thread about how the post isn't hacker news... those threads end up being more annoying than the posts imho.

I've noticed that too. These comments are in the same category as people complaining about being downmodded; they don't make very interesting reading. Perhaps I should put something in the site guidelines about them.

Re: An Unusual Paint Program

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post #16

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Recently it seems like almost every post has a comment thread about how the post isn't hacker news... those threads end up being more annoying than the posts imho.

I've noticed that too. These comments are in the same category as people complaining about being downmodded; they don't make very interesting reading. Perhaps I should put something in the site guidelines about them.

Please do. It's really getting ridiculous at this point.

Re: An Unusual Paint Program

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I've noticed that too. These comments are in the same category as people complaining about being downmodded; they don't make very interesting reading. Perhaps I should put something in the site guidelines about them.

Please do. It's really getting ridiculous at this point.

Meh. I had really meant the above post to be a sarcastic satire of the 'this isn't hacker news' posts you all just mentioned. Sorry, I suppose it sounded different in my mind.

Re: An Unusual Paint Program

#20
post #14

does anyone know how you write code to implement drawing operations like this efficiently? i remember in the late 90s there was stuff you could do, for instance, where you had a large number of low-opacity swirling ellipse objects that looked like smoke (basically a very crude particle system) - and it brought my Pentium 3 450 to its knees. (this is what i'm referring to: http://www.presstube.com/project.php?id=212 )…

Try the new HTML tag. But yes, Flash can do all sorts of animation and drawing pretty efficiently.
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