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Lenticular.js - tilt-controlled images
- PeterMcCanney 14y agoI can see a lot of use for this for product reviews on sales sites. It would have to default to a static image first though. Great work.
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- namzo 14y agoI don't understand what you mean.
- lutusp 14y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4612615 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4612615
- pastaking 14y agoSince it's open sourced, is it under MIT, BSD, GPL, or something else? I couldn't find any in your website or github. Refer to http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/pick-a-license-any-license.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/pick-a-license-any-...
- cheald 14y agoIs this supposed to work on Android devices? It doesn't seem to do anything on my N7.
- hayksaakian 14y agoSame here, n7 + g.nexus
- sspiff 14y agoDoesn't work with any of my Android devices or browsers, so I'm guessing no.
- zapdrive 14y agoDoesn't work on my Google Nexus either.
- StavrosK 14y agoWorks fine on mine, in Chrome.
- josteink 14y agoIt sorta works in a broken way in 4.1.2 on my Galaxy Nexus running stock browser.
- patrickaljord 14y agoWorks great here, galaxy nexus on jellybean with chrome.
- bagosm 14y agoJust tried this on my iPhone 3Gs, not working
- paulrademacher 14y agoNot working on ipad or Galaxy Nexus either.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoI'm flooded with emotions. Where on earth did you come up with the name? I'm... a fan. Also, the idea is very cool. There was a gif site posted here or reddit the other day that consumed far too much of my time. Similar to this, but this has to be fun to do while tilting the ipad. (Android version?)
- Semiapies 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_printing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_printing
- drivebyacct2 14y agoAh, a different word than what I was going with :)
- StavrosK 14y agoWhat word were you going with?
- bmunro 14y agoI think of lens-shaped objects, particularly lenticular clouds. Until now I did not know what the name of those moving images were. (I'm not the original poster)
- StavrosK 14y agoAh, that's what I thought you meant too, but I'm a bit confused about what amazed you in the name. It's a good name, but I think it doesn't make much sense in this context, if it weren't for lenticular printing.
- cool_guy 14y agoCoup
- pierrend 14y agoThe idea is nice. It shouldn't tell "things you'll never own" for the Lamborghini Aventador.
- true_religion 14y agoWell it is a 379,700 USD auto... most people aren't going to own it even if they can afford it.
- quorn3000 14y agoIf you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
- MattBearman 14y agoTo those saying it isn't working, have you tried waiting? It seems the frames aren't pre loaded, so for the first few seconds of tilting on my iPhone 4s I was just getting a black screen with the occasional flicker.
- mobweb 14y agoIs this supposed to work on the iPad as well? Only seems to work on my iPhone... But it's very cool!
- lutusp 14y agoA repeat post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4612615 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4612615
- navs 14y agoGorgeous. Can't wait to use this on a project.
- josteink 14y agoFrom the pictures itself it seems obvious that whoever wrote this suffers from the infamous valley "if it works on my iPhone, it's standard-compliant"-syndrome. Because, you know, it breaks horribly in most stuff I throw at it and performs horribly bad even on desktop Chrome on a dev-machine.
- patrickaljord 14y agoIt works great here on both ubuntu (xps 13 laptop) and android (Jelly Bean) with the latest chrome.
- josteink 14y agoStill. iPhone (only) tailored web-development has taken the web back into the "this site was designed for MSIE" abyss. Guessing if things posted on HN will work in browsers and OSes I use (non provided by Apple, for highly ethical reasons) is a daily game of chance. Is that really what we want? Is that the future we want? Wasn't this what we all shunned Microsoft for doing?
- jasonkostempski 14y agoThe difference is that when people build on cutting edge tech that just about everyone agrees will be standard eventually they help push the advancement of that technology, when people built for IE only they used tech just about everyone agreed was horrible, caused vendor lock-in and was a huge security risk. I think if it works on Chrome, Firefox, IE 10, Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS and Android, we're pretty clear of vendor lock-in.
- d0ugal 14y agoWorks fine on desktop Chrome for me.
- leeoniya 14y agoworking on Fennec (firefox mobile) nightly
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- altrego99 14y agoHuh... mildly NSFW description in the page.
- thomasxiii 14y agoHey guys, thanks for checking this out. It was a really fun project to build! There are plenty of bugs to fix and devices to test. If you'd like to help, shoot me a pull request: https://github.com/thomasxiii/lenticular.js https://github.com/thomasxiii/lenticular.js.
- Peroni 14y agoDoesn't work on Safari on the iPad2 for me.
- bmunro 14y agoThis works fine on my Galaxy Nexus. I'm using Chrome. The only suggestion that I have is to do some smoothing of the values you get from the accelerometer. The movement can be a bit jerky.
- denysonique 14y agoJerky too on my SGS II
- hamoid 14y agoI got a matte display to avoid reflections, but apparently someone found a workaround...
- jasonkolb 14y agoInteresting... I'm trying to think up an actual use for it now.
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- joshuahhh 14y agoAs much as I personally enjoy the demo the creator chose for the main page, I wonder whether said creator could have found a "flo-mo" view of something captivating for reasons other than "this chick is hot". (There's a really unpleasant history of the male gaze being squeezed into tech demos -- I don't think we need to do that anymore.)
- michaelwww 14y agoOn the contrary, it makes perfect sense given the target audience. I don't have a problem with hunky males appearing on the covers of romance novels.
- mnicole 14y agoGuess I'm not the target audience?
- joshuahhh 14y agoI think you're trying to say something like "as long as developers are primarily men, marketing to developers means marketing to men". I see logic in that. But what you're leaving out is that the lack of women in tech fields is a serious problem, and it's a problem that is reinforced every time you do something that assumes a developer must be a man. So, whether or not this kind of demo is effective, I think it's destructive and irresponsible, in a small way. (Besides, I find sex in advertising to be distasteful and kind of insulting. I expect it on TV, but I'd hope that the small community we have here would be a bit less base.)
- optymizer 14y agoIt's neat at first, but then it becomes very distracting, to the point where it is difficult to focus on anything else on the page. Perhaps the mouse movement can be captured only when it enters a bounding box around the image (+ some padding)? I'm not sure if I can think of a use case for this, but I am also confident that someone, somewhere, will make an awesome thing using lenticular.js :)
- Aissen 14y agoDoesn't work on Firefox for Android.
- pastaking 14y agoWhat license is this under?