An Unusual Paint Program

http://bomomo.com/

by skenney26 • 18 years ago

63 42 18 years ago

bomomo.com

lyime• 18 years ago

amazing and beautiful

PieSquared3• 18 years ago

Unusual? Yes. Practical? Not really. Hacker News? er... Nevermind. :)

It is nice to see this type of stuff here sometimes, it's interesting and amusing.

skenney26• 18 years ago

As a hacker who's always been fascinated with multimedia applications I thought it was a perfect fit.

PieSquared3• 18 years ago

Just clarifying in case that didn't come through as I thought, that was sarcasm. It wasn't a bad post. :)

parenthesis• 18 years ago

It's very therapeutic; perhaps they should market it to art therapists.

staunch2• 18 years ago

It would be quite amazing to see someone who has mastered this tool use it to paint something.

helveticaman2• 18 years ago

Like Jackson Pollock.

chris• 18 years ago

kills my browser (ff3)

ComputerGuru• 18 years ago

Works great here, fast and snappy.

FF3 final on Ubuntu 8.0.1 - I'd check my plugins if I were you.

midnightmonster• 18 years ago

Only the first setting makes anything I want to look at, but I'm very inspired that that's canvas and not Flash. For me (FF3, Ubuntu) it runs better than Flash usually does, too.

rw• 18 years ago

Runs very slowly in Fx3.0_rc1.

henning2• 18 years ago

weird, runs smoothly on a core 2 quad 2.4 ghz machine with firefox 3.0 rc1, windows xp sp 2.

Prrometheus2• 18 years ago

I'm using Ubuntu 8.01 and have the same problem as the grandparent.

philh• 18 years ago

Slow for me, but I'm still using opera 9.20 and an 800Mhz Coppermine.

henning2• 18 years ago

does anyone know how you write code to implement drawing operations like this efficiently? i remember in the late 90s there was stuff you could do, for instance, where you had a large number of low-opacity swirling ellipse objects that looked like smoke (basically a very crude particle system) - and it brought my Pentium 3 450 to its knees. (this is what i'm referring to: http://www.presstube.com/project.php?id=212 )

have computers just gotten faster, or does Flash have some way of doing, say, hardware-accelerated graphics?

jey• 18 years ago

Try the new HTML <canvas> tag. But yes, Flash can do all sorts of animation and drawing pretty efficiently.

ii3• 18 years ago

HTML5 looks to be a real Flash killer. Nobody will ever want Flash or SilverLight when all browsers start to support <canvas>, <audio> and <video>.

Malcx2• 18 years ago

Flash 10 has udp support, kinda handy for game connections.

jacobolus• 18 years ago

HTML 5 will support some kind of raw-ish TCP connection (accessible from JavaScript). I think most games able to run performantly in the browser will be just fine without UDP.

mattmaroon3• 18 years ago

The big advantage of Flash is that you write once and it runs everywhere. Anything that leaves it up to browsers to implement will not be able to boast that any time soon.

ii3• 18 years ago

Flash doesn't run on iPhone and it is often slow and buggy on anything but Windows. I bet that Apple, Google and browser developers will support standards-based alternatives. We can see this happening in the original post.

d0mine• 18 years ago

This site uses <canvas> and javascript, no flash.

berryg• 18 years ago

In the latest Webkit with the squirrelfish javascript engine it runs very smoothly. Really nice program.

TrevorJ• 18 years ago

That's really neat, thanks for sharing.

misterbwong• 18 years ago

Just. Wow. I've never seen anything like this outside of a sandbox like Flash/Silverlight.

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