There is a cool effect, when you populate every field
You liar ;)
Drawing.garden
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#93Is this supposed to work on mobile? All I see is a brown background (Firefox on Android).
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#94Well, this is delightful. Something interesting I've observed here... for most people this is very claming (like me). However for a small percentage of people it seems to induce anxiety because they can't understand why it exists or what it is for.
I am part of the second group.
Wouldn't even call it anxiety, but just some sort of "light disgust" feeling.
Ok I guess it's cool, but you can't do anything useful with it. You can't even draw something meaningful with it like the domain says.
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#95Is this supposed to work on mobile? All I see is a brown background (Firefox on Android).
I'm using your same browser on my phone.
I touch a spot and something appears at random. I touch the same spot again and it's replaced by something random. I don't think there is a way to chose what to place in a given spot or to empty it so I don't see the purpose of the game (is it a game?)
Anyway it's OK as first prototype. Just add a menu to choose plants from and it's done.
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#96Well, this is delightful. Something interesting I've observed here... for most people this is very claming (like me). However for a small percentage of people it seems to induce anxiety because they can't understand why it exists or what it is for.
I am part of the second group. Wouldn't even call it anxiety, but just some sort of "light disgust" feeling. Ok I guess it's cool, but you can't do anything useful with it. You can't even draw something meaningful with it like the domain says.
I totally understand the pseudo-autistic disgust/anger at inaccurate statements. I imagine a lot of us programmers are very sensitive to them in a discipline where small inaccuracies can have big consequences and I myself am easily irked by this type of thing.
However, sometimes the inaccuracy stems from poor communication (or deliberate lying) on behalf of the communicator, but sometimes it comes from gaps in our own understanding or perspective.
Is this just a silly, shallow little thing, or have you fundamentally missed some key point?
I don't have the answer, but I think that's one of the fun parts of engaging with anyone's random creative output like this. There's always a small chance it could teach us something we didn't know before.
E.g. it made me re-evaluate what "drawing" really is. Especially in a digital context.
Is it a question of fidelity? At what point does altering individual elements (whether pixels on a screen or icons in a grid) in order to represent a larger picture become "drawing". i.e. if the pictures were much smaller and closer together would it feel like drawing?
Is it a question of uniformity of media? i.e. would this feel more like drawing if instead of pictures it was just coloured blocks?
I could go on but you get the point
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#98The source is http://benmoren.com/ :)
Just to add for anyone looking at that link - this guy seems to be an artist who combines technology and nature and senses. He has a ton of really interesting stuff to click through on this website.
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#99Took me a while to fill it all. Nothing exciting happens. If ideas for developing it further are welcome: Make them bees fly to flowers, spiders web their nets, rabbits hunt down carrots etc, sun flowers turning and pointing towards the sun...
Shaders to make flowers sway in the wind and why not randomly turn the mouse pointer into a water can? An "ouch" sound effect when you hit a cactus.
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#100Who's gonna write an algorithm to turn every single flower into a [plant of choice]?
It seems like not all columns are the same. For example I couldn't get an apple in the middle column