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This is brilliant! Why haven't we seen this idea developed further into consumer devices by now
Without any accompanying pair of glasses the parallax effect is only convincing for a single viewer.
One thing that would probably make this adoption fodder for the custom Arch Linux & r/LinuxPorn communities is if it were just a desktop that side scrolled with parallax. Those folks seem to strongly reward anything even remotely 8-bit. I get that drops the mouse-driven parallax, just an idea.
Feel free to check it out, reload for a slightly different one: https://www.theresno.cloud/gen/wpotd.py
Colors do a full rainbow over 365 days, the number of layers represents passed months this year...
@czikenix: first thing I went for was checking the AUR for this by searching for `lwp`; the name exists in AUR as a "Lightweight process library"; names are hard so good luck if you end up re-naming it . will get to testing it out soon and looking forward to it
This is very cool! How does this work internally?
This is exactly the sort of fun, random, small project that reminds me of the more anarchic and playful older days of computing and the web. Those days are gone and not coming back, but their spirit lives on in things like this. It’s not some earth shattering YCombinator thing, it’s not a SaaS, it’s not (at least to my eye) about money — it’s a neat thing to do with a piece of screen real estate we all look at a mill…
Not so early internet but what happened to over the top Compiz 3D cube desktops and wobbly windows that catch on fire when closed?
One thing that would probably make this adoption fodder for the custom Arch Linux & r/LinuxPorn communities is if it were just a desktop that side scrolled with parallax. Those folks seem to strongly reward anything even remotely 8-bit. I get that drops the mouse-driven parallax, just an idea.
what's wrong with both?