Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh

#11

Post by zachinglis » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 1:08 PM UTC

This is gorgeous.

Though, if in memory of Bob Ross, why is it named after Gogh?

Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh

#12

Post by j2labs » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 1:14 PM UTC

Where are you based? If you're in NYC or Berlin, you should present this at Hack And Tell! It's great!

Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh

#13

Post by reitzensteinm » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 1:23 PM UTC

This is absolutely fantastic!

It would be interesting to expand this to allow user control - a bunch of procedural high level brushes.

The goal would be to get someone who can't draw able to drastically influence the output, but still make the result look good.

Do you mind if I pinch the idea and see what I can come up with in that direction?

Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh

#14

Post by hannes0x21 » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 2:03 PM UTC

totally reminds me of http://www.schlussdienst.net/html/canvas-flowers/canvas-flow...

Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh

#15

Post by taybin » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 2:14 PM UTC

zachinglis wrote: post #11

This is gorgeous. Though, if in memory of Bob Ross, why is it named after Gogh?

The brushstrokes are more in Van Gogh's style. (not the author)

Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh

#16

Post by tinco » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 2:31 PM UTC

Are you guys looking at the same picture as I am? What I see is a weak copy of Bret Victors landscape generator with horrible colours and MSPaint-like strokes.

I mean it's nice to have such a thing on your CV, but why post it to HN? (and why upvote it?)

Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh

#17

Post by spideyunlimited » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 2:38 PM UTC

Beautiful

Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh

#18

Post by inoop » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 3:16 PM UTC

For those interested in tightly-coded procedural graphics, have a look here: http://pouet.net/top10.php?type=procedural+graphics&plat...

Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh

#19

Post by michaelhoffman » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 3:32 PM UTC

I'm going to fork this and make a new version in memory of Vincent van Gogh, which I'll call Bobross.

Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh

#20

Post by stinky613 » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 5:22 PM UTC

This is really cool. How apropos that I just last night started reading PG's book "Hackers & Painters"!