Hi all! Just released Super Snowflake Maker!<p>Draw on the pie with freeform or polygon tools, change the number of sections, click on the large snowflake to see fold, and.... download!<p>Enjoy + Happy Holidays!<p>(tech: threejs/r3f, react, ts, useSpring, tailwind, canvas, svg, offscreen canvas, paperjs)
I just wanted to say how delighted I am with your web app! This is fantastic idea, and the execution is top-notch. It is incredibly user-friendly and intuitive. It has all the essential features needed to create beautiful and unique snowflakes. This really helps and makes the process of creating snowflakes easy and enjoyable. Your app is a wonderful way to lift spirits and get into the holiday mood!<p>Thank you for creating such a delightful tool. Wishing you and everyone a festive season!
The eight year old and I hanging out on this. She is a huge fan. The moment she saw it, she said “I want to use this.” And now we’re both making snowflakes on our devices.<p>I can’t name many apps that provide equal entertainment to my kid and I. You’ve done very well. As a bonus, the eight year old seems particularly motivated to learn JavaScript and start working on this kind of stuff herself.<p>Nice work and excellent share. Thanks so much for this!
This is really well made - thanks for sharing (and Merry Christmas)! Small thing: I didn't understand the difference between the white and black options at first. For some reason white was pre-selected so I got confused when nothing was cutting out while drawing for the first time. Maybe a label on hover would fix this while still keeping the clean look?
Very cool! It’s really easy to make something that looks like I knew what I was doing, when I don’t at all! :)<p>One missed opportunity that I see with sites that allow HN people to play with things and be creative (e.g. I’ve seen a bunch of sound loop makers do this): add a quick “share” link for us to show some creations. Not that I really want to share anything I did, but would love to see what others have made!
A few years ago I saw a talk at a Math conference about some mathematical models for how the shapes of snowflakes come to be.<p>I don't recall the details, but I believe one of them was even able to generate non-hexagonal snowflakes which happen under some circumstances.<p>I've been hoping to create a website around one of these models for some time now.
Really cool once I understood what was going on, it took me a real good while to figure out what to do. I guess "Draw on the pie" didn't mean anything to me.<p>Maybe add a short playable gif explainer showing a snowflake being made quickly.
While I asked: Possible to add export as an SVG?<p>noting: That would make it useful for using a design on a CNC or lasercutter.<p>That feature, as noted below is present --- click on the [>] button to go to a second page where these features are present.
Thanks for the Christmas fun! Was not going to click as thought it was like an actual snowflake maker (like you know each one is unique generator), glad I did. Could actually make a real one if I was feeling like making a mess ;)
Cute! A couple thoughts:<p>- shouldn't use 100% of a core just sitting there, might want to check for busy looping and / or put in a sleep here and there<p>- if I disconnect a bit of paper it should go, rather than just sit there disconnected<p>Great work so far though! Thank you for the amusement :)
Loved this project! Lots of festive fun in seeing what shapes can be made when unfolded. Just noticed that in mobile Firefox the dotted line previewing the cut seems to have a lower update rate than the actual path recorded, meaning the actual shape is much less jagged than the preview.
I wish there was a better user experience when downloading an image a user creates on a website like this on iPhone - it’s really weird that you can’t save it to your camera roll. It goes into downloads and confuses everyone.