Kubist
Creative
generative art
SHOW HN2015
231points
48comments
#75of 2,565 in 2015
Top 3%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
10 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score +0.23.
Design: 7 for, 0 againstIdea: 0 for, 4 againstExecution: 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
Pretty, mesmerizing results and interactive point dragging
From 2 comments
Really really nice. Enjoyed playing around with it. The resulting images are very appealing to me.
ComNik on HNI agree, the resulting images are beautiful. For some reason, it's surprisingly mesmerizing to drag the points around and see the colors change.
explosion on HN
Useful for making color palettes from a picture
From 1 comment
Cool. Very helpful to create color palettes from a picture.
camillomiller on HN
Objections
Not really cubism; the geometric look misses cubism's multiple viewpoints
From 3 comments
That's... not cubism.
ris on HNNo, not at all. It's nice, but not cubism. Cubism can, for example, look like this:…
1ris on HNQuite. The parent has a good point though, this looks nice and is interesting but wouldn't it misses the main tenet of cubism, which was to show multiple facets of objects…
grey-area on HN
Requests
Live update while dragging points
From 1 comment
Nice work! A small suggestion: live update the image when I drag a point around. It's annoying to have to click, drag, release, click, drag, release when making small adjustments.
dmnd on HN
Desktop version for larger images
From 1 comment
Would love a desktop version of this, to be able to edit bigger pictures. Currently, generating laptop desktop backgrounds is very slow on mobile devices. It's also hard to…
e_proxus on HN
Questions
How the image is split into triangles
From 1 comment
I failed in doing something very similar. Could you explain how you split the image up into triangles?
d55 on HN
Alternatives named
Polygen app
From 1 comment
I've made an app for the similar art style: http://polygenapp.com , it has been discussed on HN not long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8966928 . Here's a complete…
nbartlomiej on HN
Close-pixelate
From 1 comment
Looks quite similar to http://close-pixelate.desandro.com/ -- good job!
hiphopyo on HN
Waterlogue
From 1 comment
Nifty. Kinda reminds me of the Waterlogue[1] app. [1] http://www.waterlogueapp.com/
DannoHung on HN