Lovely effect! I like that you can also draw fireworks, and the sheer number of settings beyond that is really neat. Nice job.
My head has been in North American airspace today, so I admit I thought by the domain name that this might be a community effort to gather ideas of conceptual aircraft designs from a certain $9B secret project.
This is definitely cool stuff. When you want official vendor support on something like coreboot + various linux distros, I've come to expect you pay double of today's prices but get hardware from a few years ago. This looks like modern hardware and the premium is honestly manageable. Slightly above what I'd want to spend but I could see myself paying this for a great product. However, what made me close the tab is the "we are not even going to give you a shipping indication other than to expect like four months" (knowing how these types of things like to change deadlines anyway, starting off at four months... no). If I spend thousands of euros now, I also want the product in a reasonable amount of time (say, 0-3 weeks).
My current laptop is still performing well enough unfortunately, but ask me again in six months when the units are in and available to be shipped, and good odds that I'll hit that purchase button!
Re:Aurora
by Infernal on Sunday February 12, 2023 @12:21AM
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I’m really curious to know what piece of hardware you’re talking about, as you’ve apparently replied to the wrong post. But I really want the hardware you’re describing!
I feel like these little "safe, relaxing spaces" online are starting to become more of a trend?
I know it's not exactly the same, but conceptually, https://viberooms.serenebase.com/ this is something I have bookmarked as inspiration for some software I'm planning. My intent was to create a calming, safe space to check in and to use that space as a meditation and journaling area. Now I feel like I'm seeing these "serene for the sake of being serene, potentially with extra purpose tacked on" environments everywhere! Is it a bit of a trend or am I falling prey to the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon once again? :)
Anyway. Aurora is quite lovely. I wanted more from it, but was happy with what I got, too. The fireworks were especially nice. I wish it were easier to swap between controls so that I could fire a flurry of various colors of fireworks while the aurora was going.
Re:Aurora
by icoder on Sunday February 12, 2023 @01:56AM
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Personally I find the styling in the link you posted sub-par to be 'serene'. These are the first I noticed, for what my n=1 is worth.
I think VR could (some day) work very well for this too. I like the idea of a virtual cabin on a snowy mountain to chill or explore from. Coding in VR doesn't seem to be really there yet but getting there. To work from home but virtually somewhere from a zenful space with magnificent view sounds interesting too.
Hi - DrawAurora creator here -- thank you for the kind words and good feedback! I'm not sure if this is what you were looking as far as easier swapping of controls, but I did add some keyboard shortcuts. You can check them out by hitting the ? on the bottom right.
- I had to search fairly hard to find the ?. I did find it because I wanted to find it, but maybe have icons that haven't been touched one flash or something.
- I wish the fireworks made a launching sound. There is no instantaneous feedback when I first press the button and it makes me feel like I am doing something wrong, but then, later, fireworks!
- Not sure the right approach, but the animation loop is done with RAF and the music isn't paused when the tab becomes inactive. This means that when I come back, the music has been continually playing, but the aurora and fireworks were frozen and my immersion is damaged a bit.
- I don't find the zoom action to be especially meaningful.
- I would strongly prefer changing the color to only affect fireworks which have not yet launched rather than affecting those already shown.
I've this. It reminds me so much of the type of little experiments that people would create in Flash in the early 2000s.
It's a real shame there isn't the equivalent combination of development/graphics/animation/distribution that flash allowed. The creativity it enabled was outstanding and so accessible to get started (pirated copies were so ubiquitous). It had such a shallow learning curve. I kind of long for a return of that type of tool.
Thanks everyone for checking it out and for all the nice comments and feedback. Seeing this do well here was a really fun (and surprising) way to wake up this morning. Cheers!
My head has been in North American airspace today, so I admit I thought by the domain name that this might be a community effort to gather ideas of conceptual aircraft designs from a certain $9B secret project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(aircraft)
This is definitely cool stuff. When you want official vendor support on something like coreboot + various linux distros, I've come to expect you pay double of today's prices but get hardware from a few years ago. This looks like modern hardware and the premium is honestly manageable. Slightly above what I'd want to spend but I could see myself paying this for a great product. However, what made me close the tab is the "we are not even going to give you a shipping indication other than to expect like four months" (knowing how these types of things like to change deadlines anyway, starting off at four months... no). If I spend thousands of euros now, I also want the product in a reasonable amount of time (say, 0-3 weeks).
My current laptop is still performing well enough unfortunately, but ask me again in six months when the units are in and available to be shipped, and good odds that I'll hit that purchase button!
Not sure whether to re-post it there or flag my own comment or something.
I know it's not exactly the same, but conceptually, https://viberooms.serenebase.com/ this is something I have bookmarked as inspiration for some software I'm planning. My intent was to create a calming, safe space to check in and to use that space as a meditation and journaling area. Now I feel like I'm seeing these "serene for the sake of being serene, potentially with extra purpose tacked on" environments everywhere! Is it a bit of a trend or am I falling prey to the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon once again? :)
Anyway. Aurora is quite lovely. I wanted more from it, but was happy with what I got, too. The fireworks were especially nice. I wish it were easier to swap between controls so that I could fire a flurry of various colors of fireworks while the aurora was going.
I think VR could (some day) work very well for this too. I like the idea of a virtual cabin on a snowy mountain to chill or explore from. Coding in VR doesn't seem to be really there yet but getting there. To work from home but virtually somewhere from a zenful space with magnificent view sounds interesting too.
Some thoughts:
- I had to search fairly hard to find the ?. I did find it because I wanted to find it, but maybe have icons that haven't been touched one flash or something.
- I wish the fireworks made a launching sound. There is no instantaneous feedback when I first press the button and it makes me feel like I am doing something wrong, but then, later, fireworks!
- Not sure the right approach, but the animation loop is done with RAF and the music isn't paused when the tab becomes inactive. This means that when I come back, the music has been continually playing, but the aurora and fireworks were frozen and my immersion is damaged a bit.
- I don't find the zoom action to be especially meaningful.
- I would strongly prefer changing the color to only affect fireworks which have not yet launched rather than affecting those already shown.
:) Cheers
It's a real shame there isn't the equivalent combination of development/graphics/animation/distribution that flash allowed. The creativity it enabled was outstanding and so accessible to get started (pirated copies were so ubiquitous). It had such a shallow learning curve. I kind of long for a return of that type of tool.
Thanks everyone for checking it out and for all the nice comments and feedback. Seeing this do well here was a really fun (and surprising) way to wake up this morning. Cheers!
Great job, thanks for creating this!