dannyking

If you'd like to see an implementation of something that uses Perlin noise, check out this generative art project I did: https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs

Perlin noise is how the lines flow togeher rather than crossing each other during the animations.

I have a technical write up that explains how it works at the bottom.

Relevent xkcd: https://xkcd.com/303/

This is supportive more than constructive but this is a really great article. Your code is clear and instructions are really nice to follow. Bravo!

There's also the YouTube channel AudioLibraryFreeMusic that has a lot of high quality songs that are apparently safe to use, even for commerical use.

https://m.youtube.com/c/AudioLibraryFreeMusic/featured

Hmm, interesting, thanks! I'll try and fix that. Much apprecaited.

Check out this repo for a 3D version of the same idea by Vinay Bhaip: https://github.com/vbhaip/perlin-planets

Ah thanks. Sounds like I need to re-think my video player UI to make that more obvious.

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.

On the size of the art, with this art project I'm limited to the size of the orbs being 300x300px as the way I implemented the drawing algorithm unfortunately means I can't scale up the size of a render without changing the random seed and causing a different image to be created. So these are necessarily limited to that smaller size unless I introduce pixellation. For future projects I intend to have a resolution independent drawing algorithm rather than hard-coding pixel lengths. Lessons learned!

For future projects though I agree, I'd like to dedicate much more screen real estate to each image. I appreciate you taking the time to draw that mockup, thanks.

On the gallery page not working, could you let me know what browser and device you're using? The animations are .webm video files, which are not supported yet in some browsers so I also provide a .mov fallback for browsers that don't support it, which works here when I test it but it sounds like I've not got that fallback working in all situations yet (unless you have JS disabled). Should work for you on any modern non-Safari browser that isn't on an iOS device, for sure though.

It's not I'm afraid, no. To be honest I'm embarrassed about the code quality, since I mostly just hacked it together for myself and was a hobby project more than anything else, so I didn't release the source anywhere or think much about licenses. Having said that, here are the two JS files that power the "make your own color orb" browser tool:

https://www.dannyking.uk/js/colororbs/dna.js https://www.dannyking.uk/js/colororbs/sketch.js

The latter being the core rendering algorithm (inside the setup() and draw() functions).

Thank you! I totally agree; the curation part is by far the hardest part for me. Tyler Hobbs writes about the curation process nicely here: https://tylerxhobbs.com/process

I've not tried anything in 3D yet, that's a nice idea.

This guy beat me to that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uHtffYrXww

Thank you! I really appreciate that. That sounds like a great project idea. To draw a black and white one, this write up (from the person that inspired my project) would be a great place to start: https://avinayak.github.io/art/2021/01/09/noise-planets.html

Thanks! I wanted to keep the focus on the art, especially since it was directly inspired by someone else's art, so NFT-free.

This is great. I'd love to hear about the tech stack you used to make it.

Accredible (YC IK12 W13) is hiring a Marketing Manager and a Sales Manager, both remote positions:

Marketing Manager: https://accredible.breezy.hr/p/ab6fc2ea3134-marketing-manage...

Sales Manager: https://accredible.breezy.hr/p/7c06e9f146a2-sales-manager

Accredible is the new digital credential standard for the online learning age. Our customers are organizations that issue certificates or credentials to people for courses, awards, membership, training or any other achievement. Accredible lets them issue secure, digital credentials instead of paper-based ones. We are the certification provider behind some of the biggest and most well-known companies in the world including Rosetta Stone, Google, McGraw Hill, Kaplan, Harvard University, UC Berkeley, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Skillsoft and many others. Our vision is to host the world's credentials and in the process become the world's first truly verifiable repository of human capital. We are entering an exciting growth phase and are looking to build a professional, scalable and efficient team.

Not that we know of, and yet the proof is still illusive despite many great minds attempting to solve it. That's what makes it so alluring.

Accredible (IK12 W13) | Berkeley, CA (or remote) & Cambridge/Ely UK (or remote) | ONSITE/REMOTE | Full-time Hiring | Account Executive, 2x Sales Administrative Assistant, Backend Engineer. | Competitive salary depending on location & experience + full healthcare/dental/vision + 28 days PTO + equity

Accredible is a SaaS platform to issue secure digital credentials and badges. We issue millions on behalf of hundreds of universities, tech companies and professional associations. Venture funded (bay area investors) and profitable.

We are expanding our sales team (1 Account Executive and 2 Sales Admin Assistants) and our engineering team (1 backend developer).

Remote friendly, or work out of our Berkeley, CA or Cambridge/Ely, UK offices.

All open roles: https://accredible.breezy.hr/

Note that if in Google calendar you mark one of those events as spam, all the recurring ones are automatically removed, whereas if you just delete one it does not remove the others. There's a 'report spam' option (desktop only) in the little drop down options when you open the event.

Yes. You also need to factor in things like having young kids. Before I had them taking an ebike to a train would make perfect sense. Now though, without a car it would be incredibly difficult to get them to daycare and make it to work on time without waking up before Dawn.

Thanks! Made them using Processing.org then printed them in high resolution for the wall. Turned out really nicely!

I made a set of ten cellular automata posters for my office wall y'all might like! Let me know if you'd like me to send out some high res versions.

https://imgur.com/a/cz7V2

Founder of Accredible here, #16 on the list!

Happy to answer any questions.

Hi all,

Founder of Accredible here - happy to answer any questions!

I'm the founder of Accredible - happy to answer any questions!

Totally agree. I'm a huge fan of Inkscape. When I moved to OSX I started using Sketch as my main design software, but I do often find myself frustrated wanting a feature that Inkscape had. Really pleased to see this update. Hoping for better native OSX support, rather than running it through X11.

Nice article - always fascinating to see your insider perspective. Kudos on the transparency.

This looks great - actually it could be exactly what we need to manage our overbearing CRM spreadsheet. Looking forward to that account invite - would start using it today!

Accredible has done a lot of work to try and address the concerns that hiring managers have with online learning. The top 3 concerns we have identified are:

1. How do I know if you really did the course? 2. How do I know how seriously you took the course? Did you just browse through it passively or did you really do every assignment and maximize your learning? 3. How do I know if the course was high quality or of sufficient depth?

I believe the best way to address these concerns is to change the structure of the credential itself to have evidence of learning embedded into it. We (Accredible) have been working with some MOOC providers to create a portfolio credential tailored for this kind of situation - currently in trials and going well!

So, hopefully, once the credential formats update to match the learning environment, this will become much less of an issue.

Absolutely - There are some great tools out there too for showcasing the work done in online courses. Accredible (my startup) lets you build portfolio credentials designed for showcasing knowledge from online courses. There's also Pathbrite, GitHub, Dribble, etc. for less online-learning focused portfolios.

A Google-reader like service for your YouTube channels subscriptions. I'd like to have a list of videos from my subscriptions I can turn into a video magazine I can e.g. watch each Sunday.

It's super annoying that to keep up with your subscriptions on YouTube you have to click on each channel and manually work out which videos you've seen and which you haven't.