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Show HN: PolyGen App, turn gradients and photos into pretty low poly patterns

108 pointsby nbartlomiejover 10 years ago

24 comments

KnightHawk3over 10 years ago
Why did you decide to make this mobile only?<p>Personally I would use it the most from my computer, considered a port ;)
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andrewriceover 10 years ago
Reminds me a bit of &quot;trianglify&quot;, a low-poly background generator built on d3.js: <a href="https://github.com/qrohlf/trianglify" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;qrohlf&#x2F;trianglify</a>
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WhitneyLandover 10 years ago
It&#x27;s nice, good work. I wonder if you might be better off without the ads though. Not much revenue, and without them you can possibly build a bigger user base as a reputation point for your resume.
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normlomanover 10 years ago
1996-2004 | Gradients and bevels on everything.<p>2005-2010 | Concentric vector circles on everything.<p>2011-Present | Gradients with triangles on everything.<p>In all seriousness, this is a nice idea, but it seems really limited for just an app. It should be a photoshop filter! (or I&#x27;m sure GIMP could use some love)
o0-0oover 10 years ago
Crashes constantly using a google galaxy Nexus. I would love to have it work though.
sunspeckover 10 years ago
Haven&#x27;t tried it out yet, but looks nice.<p>Surprised to see that this wasn&#x27;t authored by Mario Klingemann, creator of the very clever LowpolyBot:<p><a href="http://lowpolybot.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lowpolybot.tumblr.com&#x2F;</a>
corditeover 10 years ago
This reminds me of voronoi diagrams, except the vertices seem to be applied as a best-fit around contrast and hue differences--then the cell being filled with the average color of such.
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rebelover 10 years ago
Pretty cool app! If you&#x27;re interested in adding an option to sell prints, I&#x27;d love to help. You can reach me at interest at printdropper.com
k__over 10 years ago
Crashes when choosing a picture on Ascend Mate.<p>The back-button gets hidden per default and when used he doesn&#x27;t go back to the main menu but leaves the app.
gravitronicover 10 years ago
my favorite bot in this gene is on twitter:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/lowpolybot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lowpolybot</a>
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kaoDover 10 years ago
I can&#x27;t try the app (stuck on a Gingerbread phone) but it seems fun. I&#x27;m eager to try it.<p>As far as I can tell, the user chooses the location of triangle vertices, right? It would be interesting to try a genetic algorithm there though it probably fits best in a desktop version.<p>Also, did you experiment with Voronoi diagrams instead of triangulation?
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ubercowover 10 years ago
I&#x27;m getting a force close when trying to choose a picture on a Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II. I have no experience with android development and don&#x27;t know how the force close reports work, but one was sent and I hope you can figure out the bug.<p>Really looking forward to trying this out! Will be great for wallpapers.
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btbuildemover 10 years ago
Crop seems constrained to the aspect ratio of the original image - is that a bug or a feature?
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ThomPeteover 10 years ago
I am surprised nothing showed up on the mac app store for &quot;low poly art&quot;<p>I would pay for such an app.
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avmichover 10 years ago
Is it similar to this approach - <a href="http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rogeralsing.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;12&#x2F;07&#x2F;genetic-programming-evolut...</a> - ?
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ctdonathover 10 years ago
The regenerate button seems to cycle (inconsistently?) thru the grain sizes. Undesirable; if I pick a grain size and regenerate, I&#x27;m looking for a suitable arrangement at that size.<p>Otherwise, nifty!
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nuclearghostover 10 years ago
Running on iPhone 5 with iOS7 seeing a weird issue where only about the top third of the photo is rendering.<p>Works fine when rendering with colors.<p>Anyone else seen something like this?
mbrockover 10 years ago
I&#x27;m curious about how well this works on videos...
mcmanciniover 10 years ago
Neat app. A cool feature would be the ability to extract colors from a photo (like Adobe Kuler) and use those in the Abstract Colors pattern.
corylover 10 years ago
I&#x27;ve been paying an artist $15 per picture to do this for a project :O
tenkenover 10 years ago
Show HN, version 3.x ..... soooo not &quot;new&quot; ? :)<p>but it looks nice! downloading now.
sauravtover 10 years ago
Oh man I am working on a very similar app, you beat me to it. :)
davidrusuover 10 years ago
looks like it could be interesting but very obnoxious ads
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robinhoodexeover 10 years ago
I like it