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Re: Geometee

#31

Post by taliesinb »

After reading "The Blind Watchmaker" I did something similar to this project -- in Visual Basic! (My excuse for using such an abhorrent language is that I was only 10 and didn't know any better).

Which makes me think that this project is ripe for a "artificial selection" mode in which you get multiple mutated copies and pick the right one, slowly directing the parameters in a 'pleasing' direction. Here's a cool video that demos Dawkins' watchmaker program from way back when: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUkL2bLFiOU

Re: Geometee

#32

Post by program »

nostromo wrote: post #30

What is this blob protocol? I've never seen it before and Google just thinks I meant to say blog (grrr, google). You get to it by clicking export: blob:http%3A//geometee.com/1692d5b3-b837-4181-bae4-7c6a997ab22a Ah, found it, very interesting: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#url

It's the URI behind the File API:

http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/#url

Re: Geometee

#33

Post by d23 »

I wish this was open source. I'd love to make it animated. It'd be real neat to have something that changes from one aesthetically pleasing shape to another.

Edit: Or having the various parameters put to different aspects of music would be awesome as well.

Re: Geometee

#35

Post by oakwhiz »

akx wrote: post #21
archgrove wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, please. I like the concept, but found using the dials really fiddly and unintuitive. They don't seem to "turn" like one would expect, working only off the height of the mouse cursor after starting interaction.

It was actually intuitive to me. But I'm used to interfaces for VSTs (audio generation/effects plugins) that usually have this exact interaction mode. See http://www.protoolerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/screenshot_O... for an example of one. (Sometimes VST knobs also have the extra of horizontal movement being a "fine-tune" mode, even, which is very handy.)

I always found it strange that VST knobs were actually sliders in disguise. After a while you get used to it, but I can see how confusing it might be to users.

Re: Geometee

#36

Post by super-serial »

archgrove wrote: post #9
arbus wrote: post #4

Really cool! Please consider replacing the tiny knobs with something a bit more user-friendly like sliders

Yes, please. I like the concept, but found using the dials really fiddly and unintuitive. They don't seem to "turn" like one would expect, working only off the height of the mouse cursor after starting interaction.

My favorite dial control is this JQuery Knob plugin: http://anthonyterrien.com/knob/

If he wanted the knobs to look exactly like his existing dials, I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to modify the plugin and add an extra dot at the position of the value.

Re: Geometee

#37

Post by gcb0 »

taliesinb wrote: post #31

After reading "The Blind Watchmaker" I did something similar to this project -- in Visual Basic! (My excuse for using such an abhorrent language is that I was only 10 and didn't know any better). Which makes me think that this project is ripe for a "artificial selection" mode in which you get multiple mutated copies and pick the right one, slowly directing the parameters in a 'pleasing' direction. Here's a cool video…

love how VB was able to introduce maybe 1/3 of the people on this site to programming but everyone dismiss it as pure garbage.

Re: Geometee

#40

Post by mrgordon »

cocoflunchy wrote: post #23

Can you buy the t-shirts? There is a preview but I didn't see any link to actually buy the thing...

I'm assuming you are supposed to upload it to the cheapest t-shirt vendor of your choice based on volume etc.
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