I made a fake-cake generator for my 30th birthday

by chime • 16 years ago

145 45 16 years ago

chime7• 16 years ago

I'm turning 30 tomorrow so I figured I'd make something birthday related. A friend of mine came up with the idea and I coded it all up. The frosting is generated dynamically using the PHP GD library and a lot of image convolution matrices. And if you're wondering, yes the web 2.0 logo and cheesy graphics are intentional. I thought it would be more fun this way.

mcargian• 16 years ago

Happy Birthday!

mahmud2• 16 years ago

Woo, 30 year olds unite! :-)

adw• 16 years ago

End of this month...

IdeaHamster• 16 years ago

Ha! I'm a day younger than you…so…there! or something…

Happy Birthday!

pak• 16 years ago

Did you build it in CakePHP?

moconnor• 16 years ago

Happy Birthday! http://cakesy.com/842f662be

yosho• 16 years ago

i made something similar except with airplanes and cars

http://flylikeagsix.com/hackernews

devmonk2• 16 years ago

Awesome! I made my first cake: http://cakesy.com/886ed73c0

The chocolate side-on shot of the cake makes for more realistic cakes from my trial. The head-on cakes' writing doesn't look real at all.

chime7• 16 years ago

Oh boy. I was wondering how long before the jokes started.

gdl• 16 years ago

While we're at it, I'm pretty sure this one is obligatory: http://cakesy.com/886e854a5

The above example makes the text look too small though, IMHO. Maybe scale things up dynamically to fit the text to the available space a little better? Still, very neat toy.

nandemo• 16 years ago

I've got this...

http://cakesy.com/85d2db719

Groxx3• 16 years ago

Doesn't much like japanese text (Had to try it). Otherwise, nice job :) I like the chocolate one the best by quite a bit.

I made you a happy cake, just to show how much I liked it: http://cakesy.com/8a7d3b35a

chime7• 16 years ago

This is why I love the Internet. I didn't even think about different Unicode characters and symbols. I whipped up the entire site in 2 days (most of it was spent tweaking the different frosting colors) and haven't even put it through my regular barrage of tests. I'll try to get Unicode working tomorrow, it mostly has to do with the specific font I used. Maybe I can give a few more font-choices. Also, I could auto-size the font according to the length of text.

Groxx3• 16 years ago

I try UTF characters in everything which displays text, especially when it's graphically manipulated. It's slightly amazing how few handle it, even if there's little reason not to (unless a library along the pipeline only reads ASCII).

I think it's just that most people are used to dealing with / have encountered C char arrays, and 8 bits per character just makes sense to programmers. 'Tis why I jump for joy when I hear about framework-X fully supporting UTF - IMO, they all should, from day one, but I realize it can sometimes be a lot of work, and is always a performance hit.

dr_lego2• 16 years ago

can't help myself.

http://cakesy.com/8f0f94220.jpg

chime7• 16 years ago

How can you drop that which doesn't exist? There's no DB behind this site.

Groxx3• 16 years ago

Are you saying the cake doesn't exist? That it's... a lie? Why would anyone lie about cake?

For that matter, why would anyone intentionally drop cake? That's a waste of good cake! Shame on you, dr_lego!

dr_lego2• 16 years ago

Aw, I would never really try to hack cakesy!

For whatever reason, I just found the statement "drop cake" hilarious. Nevermind it's not valid sql.

JoachimSchipper• 16 years ago

Are you just using regular files?

jrockway• 16 years ago

The cake is a lie.

sachinag• 16 years ago

http://cakesy.com/8736cdf03

JosefK• 16 years ago

http://cakesy.com/832e3969a.jpg

mcknz• 16 years ago

First you will be baked. And then you will be cake.

minsight2• 16 years ago

My web 1.0 (or perhaps web .9) cake generator is at http://www.cakemessage.com/

It's got the best in 1993 web UI technology.

minsight2• 16 years ago

PS. I'm going to have to agree with the "most of the time is spent on making the frosting color look best" strategy!

randomwalker• 16 years ago

Apparently jokes are OK in this thread.

http://cakesy.com/86471d2df

(Surprised no one did this yet.)

kleiba2• 16 years ago

That's way too intellectual for me... I refuse to go to an art museum until they offer free wi-fi!

demallien• 16 years ago

You need a new excuse!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images

http://www.lacma.org/visit/HoursDirections.aspx

8ren• 16 years ago

Cartoon shows are vividly pro-consumption: Simpsons has beer and crusty burgers; Futurama has alcohol; Spongebob has Krabby Patty burgers. Though often joked about, they are always seen being enjoyably consumed. This makes the shows very appealing to a TV network, because they are very appealing to advertisers of consumables.

When viewing your website, I couldn't help but think how delicious some cake would be right now. So. Let adsense do its work, showing local cake-delivery bakeries that provide a web-customizable text service (assuming they exist - if not, there's a business there too.)

Also, do support unicode, as someone suggested, also for reddit-inspired workplace friday cakes, such as: ಠ_ಠ

nessence• 16 years ago

I can't help but notice the circles; they remind me of (the late) OpenSolaris logo.

gvb• 16 years ago

Those aren't circles, they are zeros. I want some ones so I don't get a http://cakesy.com/8fcf958fc.

scottyallen• 16 years ago

Very awesome. I couldn't resist: http://cakesy.com/810b350ac

maguay• 16 years ago

No Hello, World! yet? Here you go... http://cakesy.com/81b0ff157.jpg

caf2• 16 years ago

Awesome... now do it in the browser with Javascript ;)

chime7• 16 years ago

It shouldn't be hard at all. But it won't work as inline images, email attachments, or upload to website. So it's utility will be very marginal.

prodigal_erik• 16 years ago

I for one would like to see interoperability with http://store.makerbot.com/toolheads/makerbot-frostruder/fros....

aw3c2• 16 years ago

Get a cake-by-mail shop integrated/affiliated ("Like this cake? You could be eating it. Click here to order.") and you might become rich.

pbhjpbhj• 16 years ago

So is this the inevitable redditification of HN following the exodus from Digg to reddit?

I made a fake-cake generator for my 30th birthday

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