The amount of love and attention to detail in this truly impresses me.
Matrix web-based green code rain, made with love
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#52Reminds me of the old DOS app that would cause text to start dropping off the screen... used as a gag if you could sneak it into autoexec.bat while your roommate wasn't looking
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#53Nice! I have something like this on my "self-hosted" website: https://subtlefuge.com/
And a more traditional green version of it as part of my interactive 404 page: https://corbin.world/404
(you'll see it after you type 'HACK THE WORLD')
I really like the 3d version of this one though, thanks for sharing!
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#54Quote from the Github repo: _"The following criteria guided the development process: Get the right glyphs. Like the actual ones. By now everyone's heard how the Matrix glyphs are some treatment of Katakana, but they also include a few characters from Susan Kare's Chicago typeface. The Matrix glyphs in this project come from the source: cleaned up vectors from an old SWF for an official Matrix product, archived back i…
The config file describing the glyphs is worth looking at. Also all the variable settings with comments. Pretty awesome work: https://github.com/Rezmason/matrix/blob/master/js/config.js
Thank you! A lot of what's possible via the configs is really tricky to specify via a URL, sadly, so I'm thinking of making a GUI to expose the rest of the knobs and switches. That's a ways down the road, though.
I'm glad the URL variable idea paid off, it makes it very easy to bookmark and share custom versions with other people ^_^
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#55When I was a teen I made a way shittier version of this using a bunch of vertical tags and exotic looking Unicode characters. I literally just copy and pasted them since I didn't know any JS. It looked great as long as you didn't inspect the code!
I like how marquee is long deprecated yet the MDN compatibility guide[1] shows that no one has dared drop it. Unlike its friend blink who got dropped the moment everyone hated it[2].
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma... [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bl...
Re: Matrix web-based green code rain, made with love
#56Quote from the Github repo: _"The following criteria guided the development process: Get the right glyphs. Like the actual ones. By now everyone's heard how the Matrix glyphs are some treatment of Katakana, but they also include a few characters from Susan Kare's Chicago typeface. The Matrix glyphs in this project come from the source: cleaned up vectors from an old SWF for an official Matrix product, archived back i…
One could use stable diffusion or another AI to generate new characters.
One could use GPT-3 to generate new HN comments.
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#57Quote from the Github repo: _"The following criteria guided the development process: Get the right glyphs. Like the actual ones. By now everyone's heard how the Matrix glyphs are some treatment of Katakana, but they also include a few characters from Susan Kare's Chicago typeface. The Matrix glyphs in this project come from the source: cleaned up vectors from an old SWF for an official Matrix product, archived back i…
Now that's some commitment!
Everyone needs a hobby! :D
A year ago, when the fourth movie's trailers premiered, I wrote a script to slice the glyphs out of the video, and then identified the new ones and redrew them as best as I could.
I missed a couple "punctuation marks" but the Resurrections version of the effect was live _ten days before_ the fourth film came out!
Lately some behind-the-scenes footage hit the web, and I was able to improve those glyphs them substantially, release a font, etc.
https://www.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/wvg7bn/progress_sho...
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#58Quote from the Github repo: _"The following criteria guided the development process: Get the right glyphs. Like the actual ones. By now everyone's heard how the Matrix glyphs are some treatment of Katakana, but they also include a few characters from Susan Kare's Chicago typeface. The Matrix glyphs in this project come from the source: cleaned up vectors from an old SWF for an official Matrix product, archived back i…
One could use stable diffusion or another AI to generate new characters.
Not sure why you're downvoted, the Matrix is canonically AI-generated. Any personal objection I'd have to this just cements the idea further to the fiction, you know?
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#59https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver I tried it with this "web page as a screensaver" app and it worked perfectly. macOS only though - I couldn't find a Windows one.
woah this is a cool thing that I didn't know I could do