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Re: Drawing.garden

#101
post #88

Well, 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.

No anxiety, just wondering if, since it is on HN and highly upvoted, I'm missing something. That's what you get if you go to the website first and only then read the comments :)

Re: Drawing.garden

#102
post #94
post #88

Well, 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 did something very useful with it. I removed the bugs, the snakes and the lions. You don't want these things in your vegetable garden, do you?

Re: Drawing.garden

#103
post #88

Well, 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.

It’s like art generally. Many people go mad about art. Some performance somewhere that is not immediatly about productivity is like the biggest provocation. Not everything makes sense on that axis. People are beyond simple cost/benefit analysis. All of nature really.

Re: Drawing.garden

#104
post #101
post #88

Well, 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.

No anxiety, just wondering if, since it is on HN and highly upvoted, I'm missing something. That's what you get if you go to the website first and only then read the comments :)

Curiosity, just look through HTML code and find who create it and why. ;)

http://benmoren.com/

Re: Drawing.garden

#106
post #95
post #93

Is 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.

On PC the natural emojis are added on hover. When you hover again a different emoji is put in its place.

Re: Drawing.garden

#107

Who's gonna write an algorithm to turn every single flower into a [plant of choice]?

This worked on firefox

   const event = new Event("mousedown")

   const pArr = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("p"))

   function switchSymbol(target) {
     target.dispatchEvent(event);
   }

   function switchUntil(target, until) {
     while (target.innerText !== until) {
       switchSymbol(target);
     }
   }

   for (const p of pArr) {
     switchUntil(p, "")
   }
Change the second argument of switchUntil to the emoji you want. HN doesn't allow emojis

Re: Drawing.garden

#108
post #100

Who'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

Col 15 has an apple for me. As do 14 and 16. I also spent a few minutes trying to get one column to be the same icon. This is a fun little project.

Re: Drawing.garden

#109
post #54
post #3

If you enjoy zen experiences like this, you might also enjoy Proteus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03X83rAkofU

I wish they ported Proteus to the switch, I’d love to be able to play on that.

I wish they made the VR version they were talking about ten years ago!

Re: Drawing.garden

#110
post #88

Well, 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.

It's technically a video game.

Why do any of them exist?

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