dannyking

On the size of the art, with this art project I'm limited to the size of the orbs being 300x300px as the way I implemented the drawing algorithm unfortunately means I can't scale up the size of a render without changing the random seed and causing a different image to be created. So these are necessarily limited to that smaller size unless I introduce pixellation. For future projects I intend to have a resolution independent drawing algorithm rather than hard-coding pixel lengths. Lessons learned!

For future projects though I agree, I'd like to dedicate much more screen real estate to each image. I appreciate you taking the time to draw that mockup, thanks.

On the gallery page not working, could you let me know what browser and device you're using? The animations are .webm video files, which are not supported yet in some browsers so I also provide a .mov fallback for browsers that don't support it, which works here when I test it but it sounds like I've not got that fallback working in all situations yet (unless you have JS disabled). Should work for you on any modern non-Safari browser that isn't on an iOS device, for sure though.

Comment · 4 years ago

It's not I'm afraid, no. To be honest I'm embarrassed about the code quality, since I mostly just hacked it together for myself and was a hobby project more than anything else, so I didn't release the source anywhere or think much about licenses. Having said that, here are the two JS files that power the "make your own color orb" browser tool:

https://www.dannyking.uk/js/colororbs/dna.js https://www.dannyking.uk/js/colororbs/sketch.js

The latter being the core rendering algorithm (inside the setup() and draw() functions).

Comment · 4 years ago

Thank you! I totally agree; the curation part is by far the hardest part for me. Tyler Hobbs writes about the curation process nicely here: https://tylerxhobbs.com/process

I've not tried anything in 3D yet, that's a nice idea.

Comment · 4 years ago

This guy beat me to that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uHtffYrXww

Comment · 4 years ago

Thank you! I really appreciate that. That sounds like a great project idea. To draw a black and white one, this write up (from the person that inspired my project) would be a great place to start: https://avinayak.github.io/art/2021/01/09/noise-planets.html

Comment · 4 years ago

Thanks! I wanted to keep the focus on the art, especially since it was directly inspired by someone else's art, so NFT-free.

Comment · 4 years ago

This is great. I'd love to hear about the tech stack you used to make it.