Logo Crunch
Creative
icon and logo design
SHOW HN2017
328points
65comments
#62of 2,242 in 2017
Top 3%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
9 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 13 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score -0.12.
Execution: 1 for, 8 againstIdea: 1 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for making small favicons and scaling icons well
From 4 comments
Genuinely useful, and easy to use. Thanks for sharing this!
leephillips on HNI've manually tried to hack together a few favicons. This seems like a way better solution if, like me, you don't have much design skill.
mshenfield on HNThis is incredibly useful, regardless of the veracity of its "computer vision." A technique that seems to work well for it with simple drawing style icons is to thicken and…
rocktronica on HNOn iPhone, when I choose random Logo I always get image of North and South America on a globe. The effects on scale are pretty good. Would be cool to see comparison vs more…
mikerg87 on HN
Fun to use and good demo graphic
From 2 comments
Slow but fun.
rkuykendall-com on HNHappens to me as well when I choose random: https://xkcd.com/221/ It's fine though because it is a good demonstration graphic.
mattnewton on HN
Objections
Site slow or times out under HN traffic
From 3 comments
Couldn’t get it to work in my iPhone . Too slow/times out
diegorbaquero on HNAlso not working on latest stable Chrome x64, upload not working, just keeps going, no errors in console.
iKlsR on HNwhat seems to be the problem? server getting hammered by hn traffic might have something to do with it
Jack000 on HN
Not really computer vision; it is basic image processing
From 3 comments
Not only is this not computer vision, but the image processing employed is quite naive and the results are poor. One need only move the Simplify slider all the way to the right…
BugsJustFindMe on HNNeeds title fix, this isn't really "computer vision".
trevyn on HNThese kind of fundamental methods in computer vision are commonly called "image processing". "Computer vision" typically refers to computations that have an interpretative…
mannigfaltig on HN
Display or upload failures on some browsers and phones
From 3 comments
The page loads, but normally i see earth logo on desktop, but on phone it's just blank. This is on android chrome. Looks to be a issue with the margins/alignment of the image, i…
tehlike on HNCan't get it to work on Firefox due to it trying to load jQuery from code.jquery.com where the CORS-policy disallows it. Specifically: > Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same…
lordlarm on HNDoesn't work.
pieterhg on HN
Simplification distorts logos at some settings
From 2 comments
really cool idea but it didn't work for me. It distorted the logo and made it look much worse. Would be great if you generated a unique url for each icon that is uploaded so i…
rfolstad on HNNot only is this not computer vision, but the image processing employed is quite naive and the results are poor. One need only move the Simplify slider all the way to the right…
BugsJustFindMe on HN
Requests
Release the code, ideally with a CLI for build pipelines
From 2 comments
Is the code available for this? Would be amazing to integrate in a build pipeline. Thanks!
yoshuaw on HNsure, I can put it on github. Just have to re-write the interface for cli instead of REST.
Jack000 on HN
Local client-side processing instead of server
From 1 comment
Would be nice if the image processing was implemented locally. The operations used don't seem too complicated for javascript + canvas.
augustt on HN
Shareable unique URL for each uploaded icon
From 1 comment
really cool idea but it didn't work for me. It distorted the logo and made it look much worse. Would be great if you generated a unique url for each icon that is uploaded so i…
rfolstad on HN
Questions
Does it support transparency?
From 1 comment
Is it supposed to work with transparency? I only get black pixels instead.
stapled_socks on HN
Does the random button always return the same logo?
From 2 comments
On iPhone, when I choose random Logo I always get image of North and South America on a globe. The effects on scale are pretty good. Would be cool to see comparison vs more…
mikerg87 on HNIs Central America missing for you? But I get the same logo as well when tapping random on Pixel.
chrisper on HN
Alternatives named
scikit-image morphology functions
From 1 comment
This is pretty standard image processing techniques, which you can streamline yourself. Not sure if there exists out-of-the-box solutions, but you can easily create your own with…
arve0 on HN
OpenCV morphology tutorials
From 1 comment
And some OpenCV tutorials on those same operations: http://docs.opencv.org/2.4/doc/tutorials/imgproc/opening_closing_hats/opening_closing_hats.html…
duozerk on HN
Hand-made favicons
From 1 comment
I've manually tried to hack together a few favicons. This seems like a way better solution if, like me, you don't have much design skill.
mshenfield on HN