Pickle Cat
Creative
interactive demo
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
39 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 10 critical, out of 70 comments about the project. Thread score +0.38.
Idea: 14 for, 2 againstExecution: 7 for, 2 againstDesign: 4 for, 4 againstPerformance: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun, silly and amusing
From 3 comments
Pointless? Hardly.
iconjack on HNLove it. Made me laugh.
yarper on HNAmazing. I just looked at it for about 5 seconds and was scared and freezed at the same time. What an Art!!!
joe563323 on HN
Pseudo-3D depth effect is subtle and well done
From 2 comments
Yeah I came here to ask how you did the faux-3d cat. It's very subtle, but effective as hell. I thought you were using some kind of fancy parallax shader, but I can see how a…
namuol on HNI'd like to congratulate you for the fact that this has higher production values than the majority of WebGL applications out there.
rl3 on HN
Helpful demo for discovering PixiJS
From 2 comments
It's not pointless. Demos like these help others discover libraries and frameworks. I did not know of pixiejs and it's something I need for work. Having the cat and pickles…
bliti on HNThe documentation for this project (pixi.js) is excellent. I look forward to working with pixijs and I hadn't heard of it before. http://pixijs.github.io/docs/index.html
n0us on HN
Objections
Autoplaying music with hidden iframe is unwelcome
From 3 comments
Gee, thanks a lot! The audio autoplay almost woke up everyone in the effing house! Seriously, I like the cat, but is this 1998?! Jesus, give us a dang warning at least!
SarahofGaia on HNAutoplaying music really should be avoided, though.
mkesper on HNThat's an interesting way to get background music. Wastes bandwidth on the video though. <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UsMewmMTA_c?autoplay=1"></iframe>
dan-silver on HN
Does not render or shows blank page in some browsers
From 3 comments
Uncaught Error: This browser does not support webGL. Try using the canvas renderer :( :( :( :( :(
orliesaurus on HN@dhotson This is not rendering for me in Chrome on OSX. Is this a known issue?
tnecniv on HNGetting a white page on Chrome 46, Fedora box.
csvan on HN
No lasers or interactivity beyond mouse-following
From 1 comment
Is the cat supposed to shoot lasers? Feels like it should but does not for me. Hitting the mouse and space, as well as other keys, doesn't do anything.
bwha on HN
Requests
Loop the music or use a playlist
From 2 comments
Seemed silly at first (well, still does, but in a good way). But from the comments in this thread, I realized this is actually a pretty cool demo. Completely unrelated to WebGL,…
pnt12 on HNI was going to request the music loop as well, it's pretty good background audio.
sspiff on HN
Add a fullscreen button
From 1 comment
Add a "fullscreen" button please
motyar on HN
Write a blog post about the technique
From 1 comment
really great. Please write blog about this
swcoders on HN
Questions
How was the depth map created?
From 2 comments
How did you create the depth map?
cjslep on HNWould love to hear more about how you generated the depth map - that's super cool.
prezjordan on HN
What is the music?
From 2 comments
What's the music from? Cool site.
beeboop on HNFor everyone wondering "What's the music in the background?" It's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsMewmMTA_c cleverly linked to via an autoplaying, hidden embedded iframe…
Kortaggio on HN
Alternatives named
Original laser cat cucumber GIF by TJ Fuller
From 1 comment
Fwiw this appears to be an awesome remix of (my cofounder) TJ Fuller's laser eyes cat shooting cucumbers gif, which can be found here:…
jashmenn on HN
Seene 3D capture tool
From 1 comment
It'd be really cool to hack into an existing "3d-ish" capture tool, e.g. seene[1] [1]: http://seene.co/a/popular/
djtriptych on HN