Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser(da.nmcardle.com)
da.nmcardle.com
Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser
https://da.nmcardle.com/grow
This is just a goofy thing I cooked up over the weekend. It's kind of like a screensaver, but with more reading and sliders. (It's not terribly efficient, so expect phone batteries to take a hit!)
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Very nice, I could suggest two more factors influencing growth that are important for plants: geotropism and phototropism.
Geotropism basically makes plants grow away from the source of gravity, and phototropism makes them grow towards light (and that is usually reversed for roots).
Geotropism basically makes plants grow away from the source of gravity, and phototropism makes them grow towards light (and that is usually reversed for roots).
To OP, I don't know why but you're apparently shadowbanned, and your comments appear "dead" even after vouching for them.
Probably an automated heuristic, you might want to send an email to mods so they can reverse it.
Probably an automated heuristic, you might want to send an email to mods so they can reverse it.
I vouched too, the two comments seem restored now.
Oh, those are great ideas. On that note, I was also considering simulating nutrients and rewarding the roots that find them.
I appreciate that it's beautiful and awesome, but when the complete screen was filled, I wanted a flamethrower option.
Hah, believe me, the flamethrower feature is first in line for the v2 milestone!
Don't you know that you can just drive a Ford C700 refrigerated van through it instead of mucking around with messy dangerous flamethrowers?
This completely killed my OS and nearly took the PC with it. It started running ok but as it filled the screen, the FPS dropped and then my browser stopped responding, then the mouse started moving VERY slowly and then the screen went black and my Bluetooth got disconnected. At that point, even long-pressing the power off button did nothing and I had to switch off the PC at the wall...
I am going to put the blame on Firefox and Linux Mint but it's honestly impressive how a simple animated simulation can do this.
I am going to put the blame on Firefox and Linux Mint but it's honestly impressive how a simple animated simulation can do this.
I have never seen a long press fail to cut power- assuming it works at all. I've never heard of it being tied to CPU state.
It's beautiful. Both the general texture created and the wave effects.
I would love to be able to control speed. I am curious what the waves would look like at very high speed.
As a wallpaper, a slow speed would be great.
Nice work.
I would love to be able to control speed. I am curious what the waves would look like at very high speed.
As a wallpaper, a slow speed would be great.
Nice work.
That's awesome! could you add a functionality so that I could control the color of the lines?
This is very calming for some reason.