Artistic endeavors
by Naneau
I have created what I think is the most useless thing ever. I call it ‘Ajax Art’. Check it out!
When I was young I would always fail art class. I was good at building things, but I’ve never been able to draw. I just can’t do it. My handwriting is near illegible as well. I just don’t have the motor skills.
So I wrote a small Smarty template, that outputs 400 divs for me. And I use those to draw with. Think of them as over sized pixels. For me, that’s easier than using a pencil. Finally, I’ve created art!
There’s a serious side to this as well. I found that 400 is a sensible number of ‘emulated pixels’. More and firefox would start complaining, less and the output would be less recognizable (not that it’s very good now). I’ll try and get a demo up where you can modify the number of divs, so you can try that out for yourself. I’m quite interested in the limits of this approach from a technical point of view.
Comments
Even the most useless thing ever could be the seed that grows a great innovation. Not sure that’ll happen in this case, but you never know.
Your female model looks really familiar. I’m sure I’ve seen her before… maybe in a video game twenty years ago.
The female in question actually exist and is a friend of mine. I didn’t ask her for permission though, so I’m going to keep her identity a secret
The experiment does have some value for me, because working with large numbers of element raises some optimizing questions. It appears that RAM has a small influence, but CPU a big one.
Hi. I think that you should do it more smoothly.
You do realize that to do it smoothly would require enormous amounts of div elements, right?
I kind of like the blocked pattern. I’ll try to work on an example with more divs, or a variable number.