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Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser

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!)

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.

14 minutes agospuz

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).

4 hours agoseszett

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.

2 hours agoseszett

I vouched too, the two comments seem restored now.

2 hours agosolarkraft

Oh, those are great ideas. On that note, I was also considering simulating nutrients and rewarding the roots that find them.

3 hours agodnmc

I appreciate that it's beautiful and awesome, but when the complete screen was filled, I wanted a flamethrower option.

4 hours agobartvk

Hah, believe me, the flamethrower feature is first in line for the v2 milestone!

3 hours agodnmc

I'd like it but don't listen to me and please just stay in love with programming because this is such an awesome little project.

an hour agobartvk

Don't you know that you can just drive a Ford C700 refrigerated van through it instead of mucking around with messy dangerous flamethrowers?

2 hours agoErroneousBosh

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.

5 hours agoNevermark

That's awesome! could you add a functionality so that I could control the color of the lines?

4 hours agonamtr2810

many years ago I used the safety filter data set from google quick-draw to do something similar with dick sketches.

6 hours agototetsu

I thought that moderation was done mostly manually?

oh I think you mean the filter on the game portion?

2 hours agoserf

This is very calming for some reason.