That made my day -- seeing JavaScript draw me a happy little tree.
Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh
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Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh
#22You might also appreciate "Automated Landscape Painting in the Style of Bob Ross"
http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/poster/alex_NPAR.pdf
The full paper is behind a membership wall here https://diglib.eg.org but you can read the first page here
https://diglib.eg.org/EG/DL/WS/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH09/115-122...
Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh
#23Very nice. I was sad to see it stop when it had done the tree. The Joy of Painting is great (Bob Ross Incorporated, not so much). I don't think I'd ever hang one of those quaint images on a wall. But the quick techniques to achieve a certain effect are fascinating, at least to an ignoramus like me, e.g. pushing down with a certain brush to get tree branches, or swooshing down on previously drawn stuff to create refle…
Thanks for the encouragement! I'm still going to keep going, but I wanted to submit it close to Bob Ross's anniversary. I was planning to do mountains next.
Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh
#24This 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?
Definitely, go for it. That's what GitHub forks are for right? :)
Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh
#25I'm going to fork this and make a new version in memory of Vincent van Gogh, which I'll call Bobross.
Well played.
Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh
#26I may use these generated pictures as backgrounds for slide presentations, so it would be nice to hear if the author is fine with that. What license is the resulting picture subject to?
It's under the Bob Ross license. Go for it. These are CPU suckers, so I'd probably turn down the frame rate.
Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh
#27Where are you based? If you're in NYC or Berlin, you should present this at Hack And Tell! It's great!
In Oregon. If I was in NYC, I'm not too sure if I would venture out into that weather.
Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh
#28Fun, thanks for posting.
If this puts anyone in the mood to receive some Bob Ross affirmations, I really enjoyed PBS's Bob Ross remix made earlier this year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLO7tCdBVrA
Re: Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh
#29Are 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?)
Could you link to Bret Victor's generator, please?