Show HN: UJI – an experimental and minimalist generative art creation tool (opens in new tab)

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9 pointsdoersino4y ago5 comments

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Hiya! I've made this thing over the past week or so. It's deliberately weird!

The tiled buttons at the top are presets – use them as jumping-off points, or click your way through them to see what's possible before starting afresh by yourself. The sliders control all aspects of the generated images. Hover over the icons next to them (which feature glyphs from Imperial Aramaic and Phoenician) for descriptions of what each slider does.

Feel free to leave links to pieces you've made in this thread – I'd love to see what you come up with.

haxiomic4y ago

This is fantastic and I love the choice of keeping the symbols opaque - it makes it easier to use in a funny way. Thank you for creating it and sharing it!

I’m very surprised to not see it on the front page! Have you posted this to /r/internetisbeautiful?

Honestly this is wonderful and I hope to use it to introduce some creative coding concepts when teaching

doersinoOP4y ago

> I love the choice of keeping the symbols opaque - it makes it easier to use in a funny way.

That's precisely what I was going for (plus, it's impossible to find descriptive icons for most of these options, and a wall of text below each option might lead to excessive scroll wheel wear).

> I’m very surprised to not see it on the front page! Have you posted this to /r/internetisbeautiful?

Getting to the front page is a coin flip – you win some, you lose some. But perhaps I'll submit it to the second chance pool [1]. And no, I've mostly weaned myself off Reddit, but you're right, that sounds like a good place to gather some additional feedback. I've just posted UJI there [2].

> Honestly this is wonderful and I hope to use it to introduce some creative coding concepts when teaching

I'm so glad to hear this! :)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/nk7gf7...

rtcoms4y ago

Awesome work. Would be great if this is made as a wallperper app for Android/iOs.

maneesh4y ago

very cool

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doersinoOP4y ago

Hiya! I've made this thing over the past week or so. It's deliberately weird!

Feel free to leave links to pieces you've made in this thread – I'd love to see what you come up with.

haxiomic4y ago

This is fantastic and I love the choice of keeping the symbols opaque - it makes it easier to use in a funny way. Thank you for creating it and sharing it!

I’m very surprised to not see it on the front page! Have you posted this to /r/internetisbeautiful?

Honestly this is wonderful and I hope to use it to introduce some creative coding concepts when teaching

doersinoOP4y ago

> I love the choice of keeping the symbols opaque - it makes it easier to use in a funny way.

That's precisely what I was going for (plus, it's impossible to find descriptive icons for most of these options, and a wall of text below each option might lead to excessive scroll wheel wear).

> I’m very surprised to not see it on the front page! Have you posted this to /r/internetisbeautiful?

> Honestly this is wonderful and I hope to use it to introduce some creative coding concepts when teaching

I'm so glad to hear this! :)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/nk7gf7...

rtcoms4y ago

Awesome work. Would be great if this is made as a wallperper app for Android/iOs.

maneesh4y ago

very cool

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