Unknown Pleasures
Creative
music visualisation
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
35 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 56 comments about the project. Thread score +0.54.
Design: 11 for, 2 againstExecution: 2 for, 4 againstIdea: 3 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Beautiful, polished visual design and execution
From 4 comments
„Love Will Tear Us Apart” might not be my favourite Joy Division song (that title goes to „Atmosphere”), but still I’m delighted to find this on HN #1. Splendidly executed. I…
nathell on HNThis is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a long while
ronyfadel on HNSuperb! Love the vibe <3
tmikaeld on HNBeautiful. Somehow it gave me the vibe of watching a transitional scene from Regular Show.
celaleddin on HN
Clever 'Again' button and overall vibe
From 2 comments
The Again button is so clever!
yreg on HN„Love Will Tear Us Apart” might not be my favourite Joy Division song (that title goes to „Atmosphere”), but still I’m delighted to find this on HN #1. Splendidly executed. I…
nathell on HN
Nostalgic demoscene feel
From 3 comments
That gives me demo scene vibes. Nice!
MrGilbert on HNBeautiful. Conjures up memories of the glorious days of the mid 90s.
neuro on HNThis gave me some nostalgic vibes from http://ro.me
traviswt on HN
Performs well on old phones
From 1 comment
Congratulations! Soo good (even on an old iPhone)
uvesten on HN
Objections
Google Analytics loaded without consent
From 1 comment
Looking into the dev tools also reveals that the page tries to load Google Analytics without consent. Not cool.
Kovah on HN
Bugs in some browsers (Edge, Brave, sync after Again)
From 3 comments
After pressing the loose control button the spectrograph turns 3d. Music begins to play and the camera starts to move. The screen flickered a couple of times (did it try to go…
hahamrfunnyguy on HNopening the link on brave shows nothing and the error > index-e853a9de.js:40 TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'indexOf') works happily in FF though
vorticalbox on HNWhen playing it "again" the animations and sound are not sync anymore. Otherwise great work.
mugr on HN
Text alignment in the page is hard
From 1 comment
Extremely impressive. Meanwhile, I'm struggling to get the text aligned inside this blasted <div> tag...
HeckFeck on HN
Requests
Video or tutorial on how it was made
From 3 comments
As someone who creates apis and web apps for a living, I’d love to know what the creative / development process for building something like this is? I would love to watch a video…
albertgoeswoof on HNHow does one go about creating something like this? Is there any tutorials out there? I'm eager to include interactive graphics in my work
noobcoder on HNThis is super cool, would love to see the work thats gone into it. Havent played around too much with WebGL but this is a tiny inspiration.
bilekas on HN
Ceremony treatment in WebGL
From 1 comment
Ceremony deserves a WebGL treatment as well ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zPIod2wjYE
ArtWomb on HN
Questions
Is it JavaScript or WASM?
From 1 comment
Really cool ! Is this just JS or using wasm?
greatNespresso on HN
Where to learn shader and WebGL basics
From 2 comments
You probably won’t find exactly the video you’re looking for, but if you’re interested in creative coding and shader based animation, IQ (Shadertoy author) has some amazing…
joenot443 on HNHey, could you post the link of the channel you mean? Looking for 'shadertoy' in Youtube brought me only a playlist by 'The Art of Code'. Is that the channel you mean?
satao on HN
Alternatives named
Arcade Fire Wilderness Downtown
From 1 comment
Love it. Reminds me of the Wilderness Downtown 'music experience' from Arcade Fire in 2010 - http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com
mdhayes on HN
Other unknown-pleasures visualisers by commenters
From 3 comments
Great job, I tried something similar (although much less polished) a while back. https://unknown-mp3.netlify.app/#debug
kurishutofu on HNI once did something like this! Forked from someone who did most of the heavy lifting https://fede.dm/unknown-pleasures/ https://github.com/FdelMazo/unknown-pleasures/
BaraBatman on HNSimilar, but different: https://github.com/jo-m/waterfall-plot-webgl/ (I am the author)
jo-m on HN