Primitive
Creative
generative art
SHOW HN2016
894points
170comments
#6of 2,264 in 2016
Top 1%of 2016 by points
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LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
40 positive, 50 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 93 comments about the project. Thread score +0.43.
Idea: 20 for, 0 againstExecution: 6 for, 0 againstDesign: 6 for, 0 againstPerformance: 3 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Impressive, artistic results
From 3 comments
Hi HN, OP here. I've tinkered with this problem a few times over the years, but only now am I happy with the results. This time I wrote it in Go and implemented things a bit…
fogleman on HNWow, they look quite artistic. Jürgen Schmidhuber has done extensive study of so-called low complexity art, see http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/beauty.html
tromp on HNIt's really cool how it isolates some of the really pretty colors and blends them into the rest of the picture. I'm loving their twitter, too: https://twitter.com/PrimitivePic
striking on HN
Good performance improvements in the Go rewrite
From 1 comment
I was about to create such a website a couple of years ago, but isn't this too much computational expensive to be a free service? It's going to make people wait a lot if the…
antirez on HN
Objections
Name 'primitive' has negative connotations for marketing
From 2 comments
That's a terrible name if he's planning to monetize this tho.
rawnlq on HNI assume because "primitive" generally has negative connotations. (Don't try to make rational arguments about that doesn't apply here or how obvious it is that it's not the "bad"…
jerf on HN
Requests
Add SVG output
From 3 comments
Hi HN, OP here. I've tinkered with this problem a few times over the years, but only now am I happy with the results. This time I wrote it in Go and implemented things a bit…
fogleman on HNI'd love to help with the SVG implementation. I'll follow the repo. Great project.
nathancahill on HNThis is awesome to generate art for prototypes, e.g. for boardgames (cards, etc). Please implement that svg output feature. If you need any help, you can find my contact details…
DictumMortuum on HN
Add a website front end for uploading images
From 2 comments
Do you have nay plans on putting a website front end on this? It would be great to upload an image and get a result
jotato on HNA few people have asked that, so maybe. Another thought was you could tweet an image to the Twitter bot and have it tweet back the result, but then your image is out there for…
fogleman on HN
Cite original sources of Twitter bot images
From 2 comments
As an aside, it would be nice if you could cite the original sources of the images posted by the Twitter bot; it would be nice to compare, and probably most safe legally too.
Ar-Curunir on HNto add to this, I want to compare to the source image! You should definitely link to the original.
Cogito on HN
Questions
Can it be used for image compression?
From 2 comments
Possibly naive question: can this be used for image compression? Use this for a rough approximation to the original colours, and encode the diff to the actual image using some…
ggambetta on HNHave you tried using it as a lossy compression algorithm for images? The position, shape, orientation and color of the primitives should provide a rather synthetic representation…
zakk on HN
Is it pure Go, could it run client side via GopherJS?
From 1 comment
Is it pure Go? Could you compile with GopherJS and do the processing all client side?
shurcooL on HN
Alternatives named
Neural Style
From 1 comment
If you like this you will like Neural Style: https://github.com/anishathalye/neural-style It uses TensorFlow to create come cool pictures.
aarreedd on HN
ImageTracer
From 1 comment
Shameless plug: similar artistic effects can be achieved with ImageTracer, however the algorithm is different. It's a Public Domain tracing and vectorizing library, outputting…
jankovicsandras on HN
Evolve (Mona Lisa genetic programming)
From 2 comments
Reminds me a lot of this https://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/
boyter on HNWorth pointing out: https://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/ And also a JavaScript version: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve/
babak_ap on HN