laser eyes
Creative
photo effects web app
SHOW HN2011
62points
42comments
#204of 1,097 in 2011
Top 19%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
6 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Execution: 0 for, 7 againstIdea: 5 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun and cool effect
From 4 comments
Very, very cool! Here's the viral touch you're missing: a gallery, or at least photo sharing. When I hit the tweet button at the bottom, it should allow others to see the photo I…
guynamedloren on HNAt first like I was like "what the..", but then I was "whoo hoo, my eyez haz lazer" :P
phatbyte on HNthis is great! mine is my new facebook profile photo :) I smell a viral hit... updated: also, definitely make an iphone app for this!
fookyong on HNThis is awesome. Also added it to my Facebook + Twitter profile. Would be great to have nice some kind of easy file sharing.
nedwin on HN
Could go viral
From 2 comments
this is great! mine is my new facebook profile photo :) I smell a viral hit... updated: also, definitely make an iphone app for this!
fookyong on HNawesome! :D I must say the same as I did on another project here today - it needs linking to the result. then it'll spread viral (I will share for sure :D)
zalew on HN
Objections
Face detection fails on dark skin
From 1 comment
Doesn't work on anyone with dark skin.... but then I didn't expect it to since all of the out of the box OpenCV algorithms have the same problem.
true_religion on HN
Hangs or fails to find eyes on some photos
From 3 comments
Doesn't work for me. Uploading a 124kb .jpg of someone looking at the camera with a fairly boring background. It starts "searching for laser mounting points", gets about 1/8th of…
boredguy8 on HNI tried 3 pictures and it only seemed to scan the top 1/8th as well before it gives up. Chromium on Ubuntu
enjalot on HNFor some reason, it doesn't seem to like anything I give it (Chrome and Firefox both). I finally got to see it with the imgur pic posted below.
Vivtek on HN
Slow performance and crashes in Chrome
From 1 comment
Fun app, thanks! :) but for some reason when I tried to save the image, it crashed my chrome and the second time I am able to save it but still it slowed down chrome.
alienreborn on HN
Browser unsupported in Safari
From 1 comment
Using safari 5 it says "INSUFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY. USE ANOTHER BROWSER" but didn't tell me which browsers are supported, which was confusing, what tech is safari missing?
andrewnez on HN
Requests
Photo gallery or sharing
From 3 comments
Very, very cool! Here's the viral touch you're missing: a gallery, or at least photo sharing. When I hit the tweet button at the bottom, it should allow others to see the photo I…
guynamedloren on HNSounds like you are hesitant to make a public photo gallery. I'd recommend building one though. From my experience with cornify.com, having a public gallery really activates…
GBKS on HNThis is awesome. Also added it to my Facebook + Twitter profile. Would be great to have nice some kind of easy file sharing.
nedwin on HN
Link to result or easy file sharing
From 2 comments
awesome! :D I must say the same as I did on another project here today - it needs linking to the result. then it'll spread viral (I will share for sure :D)
zalew on HNThis is awesome. Also added it to my Facebook + Twitter profile. Would be great to have nice some kind of easy file sharing.
nedwin on HN
Custom laser colors
From 1 comment
I would suggest allowing different colors for the laser.
fezzl on HN
Manually pick eye positions
From 1 comment
I love it. Could we have the ability to pick where the eyes are if the app doesn't find them automagically?
jbpr on HN
iPhone app
From 1 comment
this is great! mine is my new facebook profile photo :) I smell a viral hit... updated: also, definitely make an iphone app for this!
fookyong on HN
Questions
How is eye detection done?
From 1 comment
How are you doing eye detection? Edit: I asked the same question on Twitter. Kilian response is below: "Python-opencv and HAAR cascades, first I detect faces, then I detect eyes.…
nyellin on HN
Experience with ep.io hosting
From 1 comment
What was your experience with ep.io? Would you use them for a more serious web application?
nyellin on HN
Alternatives named
lazertits.com
From 1 comment
A friend just pointed me to this somewhat related project: http://www.lazertits.com/
nedwin on HN
cornify.com
From 1 comment
Sounds like you are hesitant to make a public photo gallery. I'd recommend building one though. From my experience with cornify.com, having a public gallery really activates…
GBKS on HN