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Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

#81

Wow! Many many many memories from the past. The bad part is I only used on Black/White Display in the past and now is in colors

You can add the CSS rule "filter: grayscale(100)" to the body if it helps. I have no idea how black and white monitors worked though, I would guess they'd have less than 8 bits of brightness info?

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

#82

Wow! Many many many memories from the past. The bad part is I only used on Black/White Display in the past and now is in colors

You can add the CSS rule "filter: grayscale(100)" to the body if it helps. I have no idea how black and white monitors worked though, I would guess they'd have less than 8 bits of brightness info?

> I have no idea how black and white monitors worked though, I would guess they'd have less than 8 bits of brightness info?

Depends on the monitor; I think ones existed with anywhere from 1-8 bits.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

#83
This is awesome, but the aspect ratio/scaling is kind of weird on my Chromebook, which admittedly does have a smaller than usual screen. To have the left side toolbar fully showing so that I don't need to constantly scroll up and down when making art, I need to zoom allll the way out to only the 33% zoom level.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

#85
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The Oh No sound that plays with undo has lived rent free in my head for 20years now.

I'm not quite as old as the average HN user so I started with I think kidpix 3 which had a wider variety of undo sounds which I can still remember perfectly despite not touching the program for about 14 years.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

#86

Is it weird that I feel like I've never heard of this app? I mean, I was around late 80s/90s but I dunno....what platform/years are the core of this? Here's some other retrospective from recent: The creative legacy of Kid Pix https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27563615

I was born in 1998 and every school PC had a version of kidpix installed (v3 I think) despite it being quite old at the time. I have a vague memory of kidpix being used to teach the basics of computing like how to save a file to the file hierarchy and then how to print it.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

#87

Thank you so much for making this! The sound effects take me back. I've been hoping to find something like this for my daughter to experience a fun paint program like I had.

Kidpix 3 seems to be on archive.org right now. You might need a windows XP VM to play it though.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

#89

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Looks like a way to purposefully create a biased (center-weighted) random number generator out of multiple calls.

Mathematically is the sum of six Math.random() any different than (Math.random() * 6)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin–Hall_distribution

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

#90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can add the CSS rule "filter: grayscale(100)" to the body if it helps. I have no idea how black and white monitors worked though, I would guess they'd have less than 8 bits of brightness info?

> I have no idea how black and white monitors worked though, I would guess they'd have less than 8 bits of brightness info? Depends on the monitor; I think ones existed with anywhere from 1-8 bits.

It allows to see. I just tested on chrome dev tools. What it does not to is set the filling as it worked on the original app. Anyways, really nice memories. I was a child (6 yo) when I first touched those. Thanks for the hint to play with CSS. :-)
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