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An Unusual Paint Program
- lyime 18y agoamazing and beautiful
- PieSquared 18y agoUnusual? Yes. Practical? Not really. Hacker News? er... Nevermind. :) It is nice to see this type of stuff here sometimes, it's interesting and amusing.
- skenney26 18y agoAs a hacker who's always been fascinated with multimedia applications I thought it was a perfect fit.
- PieSquared 18y agoJust clarifying in case that didn't come through as I thought, that was sarcasm. It wasn't a bad post. :)
- helveticaman 18y agoThe sarcasm didn't come through, sorry.
- abstractbill 18y agoRecently it seems like almost every post has a comment thread about how the post isn't hacker news... those threads end up being more annoying than the posts imho.
- pg 18y agoI've noticed that too. These comments are in the same category as people complaining about being downmodded; they don't make very interesting reading. Perhaps I should put something in the site guidelines about them.
- staunch 18y agoPlease do. It's really getting ridiculous at this point.
- PieSquared 18y agoMeh. I had really meant the above post to be a sarcastic satire of the 'this isn't hacker news' posts you all just mentioned. Sorry, I suppose it sounded different in my mind.
- delackner 18y agoPerhaps before posting any post that contains red flag words or phrases should require an additional confirmation: This post contains words that suggest you are being boring. Are you being boring? Strings that stick out: "belong.*on hacker" "doesn't belong" etc...
- gruseom 18y agoEven more concerning to me is how frequently these "not hacker news" comments are added to posts that are off the beaten track (i.e. not about code, startups, and such) but which I find genuinely interesting. The last thing I'd want for this site is diminished diversity. I don't like the spam or bait posts either, but I'm glad you haven't cracked down on them in a way that triggers this other, imho more significant risk. Edit: while I'm at it, the "not hacker news" noise belongs to a more general class that I've been training myself to tune out, which is the "meta hacker news" category. A bad day here is one in which there's more discussion of the site itself than anything else. And yes, I'm fully aware that I'm doing it right now. :) But I've been resisting it successfully for weeks...
- Prrometheus 18y ago>Recently it seems like almost every post has a comment thread about how the post isn't hacker news... Most of the ones I've noticed are on stories such as "entertainment celebrity x dies", "politician y does z unrelated to tech", or "OMG we're all going to die as soon as the economy collapses and we devolve into cannibalism and the last survivor is driven insane from Global Warming and kills himself". I don't read every comment thread, but it's mostly those stories that I see "not Hacker News" on.
- parenthesis 18y agoIt's very therapeutic; perhaps they should market it to art therapists.
- staunch 18y agoIt would be quite amazing to see someone who has mastered this tool use it to paint something.
- helveticaman 18y agoLike Jackson Pollock.
- chris 18y agokills my browser (ff3)
- ComputerGuru 18y agoWorks great here, fast and snappy. FF3 final on Ubuntu 8.0.1 - I'd check my plugins if I were you.
- midnightmonster 18y agoOnly the first setting makes anything I want to look at, but I'm very inspired that that's canvas and not Flash. For me (FF3, Ubuntu) it runs better than Flash usually does, too.
- rw 18y agoRuns very slowly in Fx3.0_rc1.
- henning 18y agoweird, runs smoothly on a core 2 quad 2.4 ghz machine with firefox 3.0 rc1, windows xp sp 2.
- Prrometheus 18y agoI'm using Ubuntu 8.01 and have the same problem as the grandparent.
- philh 18y agoSlow for me, but I'm still using opera 9.20 and an 800Mhz Coppermine.
- henning 18y agodoes anyone know how you write code to implement drawing operations like this efficiently? i remember in the late 90s there was stuff you could do, for instance, where you had a large number of low-opacity swirling ellipse objects that looked like smoke (basically a very crude particle system) - and it brought my Pentium 3 450 to its knees. (this is what i'm referring to: http://www.presstube.com/project.php?id=212 http://www.presstube.com/project.php?id=212 ) have computers just gotten faster, or does Flash have some way of doing, say, hardware-accelerated graphics?
- jey 18y agoTry the new HTML <canvas> tag. But yes, Flash can do all sorts of animation and drawing pretty efficiently.
- ii 18y agoHTML5 looks to be a real Flash killer. Nobody will ever want Flash or SilverLight when all browsers start to support <canvas>, <audio> and <video>.
- mattmaroon 18y agoThe big advantage of Flash is that you write once and it runs everywhere. Anything that leaves it up to browsers to implement will not be able to boast that any time soon.
- ii 18y agoFlash doesn't run on iPhone and it is often slow and buggy on anything but Windows. I bet that Apple, Google and browser developers will support standards-based alternatives. We can see this happening in the original post.
- mattmaroon 18y agoiPhone is some tiny fraction of a percent of the overall market, and I'd be surprised if it ever gets to 1%. I'd be more surprised if it does so without flash support. Flash works fine on OSX in my experience. A good portion of our startup depends on it, and my cofounders code on Macbooks.
- wallflower 18y agoFor those of you trying bomomo.com through the iPhone, it is intriguing - it looks like a flash-based application (albeit non-interactive). If only Apple were to create some hook for WebKit/Sproutcore that allowed iPhone web applications to do something with finger touches (this is difficult because of the pinch gestures require mouse/t-pad tracking - but maybe they can have a JS API hook to toggle/disable pinching for webapps)
- ii 18y agoCome on, iPhone will go fine, nothing can stop it. Only Android has some chances, but nobody knows when they will appear. It's a future, man, and it will do without Flash support.
- d0mine 18y agoThis site uses <canvas> and javascript, no flash.
- berryg 18y agoIn the latest Webkit with the squirrelfish javascript engine it runs very smoothly. Really nice program.
- TrevorJ 18y agoThat's really neat, thanks for sharing.
- misterbwong 18y agoJust. Wow. I've never seen anything like this outside of a sandbox like Flash/Silverlight.