Show HN: Moon by Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson

by szx • 13 years ago

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liyanchang• 13 years ago

Summary for those of you on text-based or js-free browsers:

It's a sphere, subdivided into squares. Everyone shares the same space, so you can draw in a random square (if you login) or browse other peoples marks.

modo_• 13 years ago

All I see is a black screen on Chrome...?

mediocregopher2• 13 years ago

If you have ghostery it blocks stuff the site needs. This was the problem for me anyway.

szx5• 13 years ago

Perhaps a WebGL issue? Email is in my profile if you're still having a difficulty.

nogridbag• 13 years ago

Oh wow, I left this tab open overnight. I thought it was simply a spherical particle system demo and never gave it a second thought to attempt to click the sphere.

danso• 13 years ago

Just curious...what is the submitter's relation to Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson? Is he/she their developer, or actually either Ai/Olafur? Either would be pretty cool :)

szx5• 13 years ago

Creative director (and developer). I doubt the artists have time to read HN :)

exit• 13 years ago

can you describe the process of working with the artists to develop this?

did they come to you with the finished idea, or a general concept, or ..? was there a lot of iteration on the idea?

jmillikin• 13 years ago

Seems similar to http://www.drawball.com/ , except that Moon requires registration while Drawball is anonymous. Ironic, considering the artists.

Nux• 13 years ago

Indeed, the login thing kind of kills it.

szx5• 13 years ago

We initially wanted it to be anonymous but ended up going with login for two main reasons:

- Social login means sharing is only a click away, encouraging conversation and possibly more thoughtful contributions.

- We wanted to give people equal chance of contributing and avoid the scenario where a handful of users (vandals?) find the site before everyone else and take over it all. That meant limiting the number of marks a person can make in a given time period - and that's easiest to do when you have users.

Would love to hear your thoughts on these points. This is still a work in progress after all...

D9u• 13 years ago

This is really cool! I like the message. Aloha!

shalmanese• 13 years ago

"A Year of Drawball" is one of the most fascinating videos of collaborative social phenomena I've ever seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovG-t_JPGB4

The mechanics are very similar to Moon, each individual user only had a tiny amount of ink on an extremely zoomed in canvas so large artworks would require co-operation from hundreds of people.

ssully• 13 years ago

Pretty neat. Reminds me a lot of curiosity by 22 cans.

tluyben2• 13 years ago

My browsers do have WebGL, yet the site says they don't. Chrome + Firefox on OS X. Other Webgl sites/games work.

iSnow• 13 years ago

This is really nice, but what happens once it hits 4Chan?

quchen• 13 years ago

The authors probably know about that, and I think it's part of the experiment. It's much harder to make giant drawings here though, because the entire thing is divided up in little patches; Drawball is only limited by your screen size.

pattisapu• 13 years ago

or, Rhizome? :-P

nichtich2• 13 years ago

I'm surprised by the lack of penis drawing. Is there a review process or do people just suddenly decide to behave better?

nichtich2• 13 years ago

I take it back. Just found four of them.

mcpie• 13 years ago

Really nice, though the 'my marks' and 'tags' boxes don't load for me, meking it impossible to find back my cute little efforts at office procrastination :(

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