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Re: p5.js

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Post by ikesau »

Love p5 - I learned a bunch of new concepts through it: polar coordinate space; thinking in radians; dot products; event-driven programming.

It's one of the fastest ways I know of to make something fun and expressive in code.

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Post by layer8 »

noduerme wrote: post #13
Centigonal wrote: post #9

This is a really pretty website! I'm surprised that they decided to take out the part in the About section mentioning that this is a continuation of the ideas from Processing - I guess maybe now P5.js is more popular than processing is/was?

I really loved proce55ing as a mini language. I think it made a ton of sense in a world where it was fairly difficult to manipulate pixels inside something like a canvas inside a webpage if you wanted to make an interesting visual experiment. And it was also very readable and accessible to artists with little programming experience.

Why the past tense?

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Post by dr_dshiv »

jckahn wrote: post #27
potatoman22 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine a procedurally generated game via using an LLM to continually program new content for the game.

That seems pretty soulless and uninteresting.

That sounds like a challenge worth taking up. (How to operationalize the soulfulness, though?)

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Post by e40 »

sjdonado wrote: post #33

Really good library and documentation, helped me to jump into animations in no time.Got this https://cs-games.sjdonado.com/ done in a few days

On mobile the right third of the board is cut off.

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Post by evanjrowley »

_spduchamp wrote: post #30
zyklonix wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you transform a coat stand into an awesome futuristic instrument??? So glad I asked. Brilliant work. This should be in the HN front page!

Yup. That's exactly what I did. I made an album for falling asleep to that you can find on various streaming music services. Just search "Autonomous Drone Lullabies" by Stefan Powell. It's an album that was made autonomously using an algorithm in Pure Data. It's also here: https://stefanpowell.bandcamp.com/album/autonomous-drone-lul...

Purchased! Excellent find on HN today.

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Post by slorber »

petercooper wrote: post #17
rikroots wrote: post #6

I think the key reason why this link has been posted to HN now is because p5js has a new website? Back in 2023 the Sovereign Tech Fund gave the p5js folks a €450k grant[1] "to enhance p5.js Documentation organization & accessibility" and this seems to be some of the results of that investment. In my view, it seems to be paying off - the site feels a lot easier to navigate and search, with more useful information. For…

We also featured it quite prominently in yesterday's JavaScript Weekly . With ~175k subscribers, things we include often make it to HN front page hours later. It's next to impossible to actually prove the connection.. but it's just part of the fun of how links spread around the ecosystem for me :-)

Impossible yet it often happens the same old link gets featured everywhere at the same time :)
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