Trianglify
Creative
generative background design
SHOW HN2014
170points
30comments
#131of 2,272 in 2014
Top 6%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
5 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.
Execution: 1 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Noise option produces a great looking pattern
From 1 comment
Nicely done! The noise option really makes for a great looking pattern.
backwardm on HN
Gorgeous and clean results
From 2 comments
Gorgeous! I've been using http://cl.ly/image/0S0X0V3F2H2K for the last few years and looking for similar, nicely colored images to swap into a rotation. I had two fun thoughts…
cookrn on HNReminds of a kaleidoscope. Since you've based the package on Javascript, it wouldn't be too difficult/time-consuming to add some css3 animation to make it transform as such.…
quackerhacker on HN
Objections
Site SSL error on custom domain
From 2 comments
I get an SSL error when clicking on your site link. https://qrohlf.com/
balls187 on HNSame here ``` You attempted to reach qrohlf.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as www.github.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the…
olegkikin on HN
Noise slows rendering and increases file size
From 1 comment
Cool app. I noticed this: Not only does noise slow down rendering, it also increases file size for the downloaded image.
PeterSmit on HN
Requests
PNG or JPG output
From 2 comments
Have you thought of making a wallpaper generator of it? It would be awesome to download the output as .png with different screen resolutions
4gn3s on HNPNG/JPG output is definitely on my wish list, since I'm going to be using this thing to generate header images for my blog posts and the whole "save as SVG > open in Illustrator…
qrohlf on HN
Brightness or density sliders
From 1 comment
Love it -- I would request two sliders: triangle size/density slider and color brightness... (I'd like darker screens rather than bright pastels)
samstave on HN
Tileable patterns
From 1 comment
Gorgeous! I've been using http://cl.ly/image/0S0X0V3F2H2K for the last few years and looking for similar, nicely colored images to swap into a rotation. I had two fun thoughts…
cookrn on HN
Custom color palettes such as Kuler
From 1 comment
Gorgeous! I've been using http://cl.ly/image/0S0X0V3F2H2K for the last few years and looking for similar, nicely colored images to swap into a rotation. I had two fun thoughts…
cookrn on HN
Alternatives named
flat-surface-shader animated background
From 1 comment
Good job! Here's a similar one, but animated: http://wagerfield.github.io/flat-surface-shader/. It was on HN a few months ago.
msvan on HN
polygonz generator
From 2 comments
Weirdly, I had this exact same idea a little while ago and threw something together: http://polygonz.zaucetech.com/ its open source too!
zaucetech on HNThis is sweet, maybe you could benefit from some of the code I wrote a little while earlier for something super similar: http://polygonz.zaucetech.com/
zaucetech on HN