Kubist

Creative

generative art

SHOW HN2015

231points
48comments
#75of 2,565 in 2015
Top 3%of 2015 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

10 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score +0.23.

Design: 7 for, 0 againstIdea: 0 for, 4 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Pretty, mesmerizing results and interactive point dragging

    From 2 comments
    • Really really nice. Enjoyed playing around with it. The resulting images are very appealing to me.
      ComNik on HN
    • I agree, the resulting images are beautiful. For some reason, it's surprisingly mesmerizing to drag the points around and see the colors change.
      explosion on HN
  • Useful for making color palettes from a picture

    From 1 comment

Objections

  • Not really cubism; the geometric look misses cubism's multiple viewpoints

    From 3 comments
    • That's... not cubism.
      ris on HN
    • No, not at all. It's nice, but not cubism. Cubism can, for example, look like this:…
      1ris on HN
    • Quite. The parent has a good point though, this looks nice and is interesting but wouldn't it misses the main tenet of cubism, which was to show multiple facets of objects…
      grey-area on HN

Requests

  • Live update while dragging points

    From 1 comment
    • Nice work! A small suggestion: live update the image when I drag a point around. It's annoying to have to click, drag, release, click, drag, release when making small adjustments.
      dmnd on HN
  • Desktop version for larger images

    From 1 comment
    • Would love a desktop version of this, to be able to edit bigger pictures. Currently, generating laptop desktop backgrounds is very slow on mobile devices. It's also hard to…
      e_proxus on HN

Questions

  • How the image is split into triangles

    From 1 comment
    • I failed in doing something very similar. Could you explain how you split the image up into triangles?
      d55 on HN

Alternatives named

  • Polygen app

    From 1 comment
    • I've made an app for the similar art style: http://polygenapp.com , it has been discussed on HN not long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8966928 . Here's a complete…
      nbartlomiej on HN
  • Close-pixelate

    From 1 comment
    • Looks quite similar to http://close-pixelate.desandro.com/ -- good job!
      hiphopyo on HN
  • Waterlogue

    From 1 comment
    • Nifty. Kinda reminds me of the Waterlogue[1] app. [1] http://www.waterlogueapp.com/
      DannoHung on HN

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