JavaScript Instagram-like Filters
Creative
image filters
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
5 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Great work, a fantastic contribution, useful for user profile images
From 3 comments
What a fantastic contribution & thanks for considering MIT/MPL. This will definitely come in handy as a small side side feature for user profiles on my upcoming projects.
hhastings on HNreally great work there. not a big fan of the license choice, though.
franze on HNThis is awesome. Thanks!
leak on HN
Objections
Filters block the UI thread and are too slow on the client side
From 2 comments
You should rewrite a "pseudo-non-blocking" implementation of these filters. Right now they block the UI thread for too long, which limits how useful these can be. Web workers in…
kwamenum86 on HNWeb workers are not well-supported yet: http://caniuse.com/#feat=webworkers The most important omissions from that list are IE < 10. Using web workers if present and falling back…
kwamenum86 on HN
Filter quality is not on par with Instagram
From 1 comment
It's definitely a good start, but IMO the quality of the filters are not on par with those of Instagram. A better JS filter library I found is CarmanJS. Check out their demos at…
huytoan_pc on HN
GPL license is restrictive for closed applications
From 2 comments
really great work there. not a big fan of the license choice, though.
franze on HNI don't really like the GPL also. Make's it basically useless in a closed application but this isn't the place to rant.
Keverw on HN
Requests
Switch license to MIT
From 2 comments
yeah, strongly preferred. here are two very handy articles about the differences between open source (and other) licenses…
franze on HNThanks for this - will change the licence to MIT.
alexmic on HN
Use web workers or chunked processing for performance
From 2 comments
You should rewrite a "pseudo-non-blocking" implementation of these filters. Right now they block the UI thread for too long, which limits how useful these can be. Web workers in…
kwamenum86 on HNWhy not use WebWorkers?
iso8859-1 on HN
Save filtered images locally or server side
From 2 comments
Awesome work! Is there a way that these filtered images could then be saved server side to be used later without the js?
whymsicalburito on HNthis is very good! is it possible to save the filtered images locally?
maxjaderberg on HN
Questions
Can filtered images be saved server side without JavaScript?
From 1 comment
Awesome work! Is there a way that these filtered images could then be saved server side to be used later without the js?
whymsicalburito on HN
Can filtered images be saved locally?
From 1 comment
this is very good! is it possible to save the filtered images locally?
maxjaderberg on HN
Alternatives named
glfx.js (WebGL shader filters)
From 1 comment
I just added fltrr to https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki/Image-manipulation which tracks libraries that do this. glfx.js does exactly what you suggest, leveraging WebGL…
paulirish on HN
CamanJS
From 1 comment
It's definitely a good start, but IMO the quality of the filters are not on par with those of Instagram. A better JS filter library I found is CarmanJS. Check out their demos at…
huytoan_pc on HN
vintagejs
From 1 comment
Another recent Lomo-esque JS library: http://vintagejs.com/
pie on HN