Tinycast
For something that started as a little “PLW Basic Research” project, Tiny is turning out to be a lot of fun. Now seems like a good time to post a screencast (Quicktime / 6.4MB):
The next iteration will include a fancier tree-based browsing system to reveal which icons are created based on others. I hope to have that up before the end of the week. Fatbit love…
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September 14th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
Great fun. Please remove all the blank ones, though!
September 14th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
Hi Paddy, thanks for the heads up. I’ll remove the blanks soon, and I’m adding something in to filter out blank (black or white) submissions.
September 15th, 2006 at 5:05 am
i simply love this thing.
i wouldn’t filter out (all) black submissions. just leave one black & white.
as they are two out of the 2^169 possibilities. right? also, filtering duplicates would
make sense to me.
i am looking forwad to the next iteration and hope you don’t add complexity.
September 15th, 2006 at 8:58 am
Hi Nungee, thanks for the comment. I’m now probably going to hold off on any revisions until the digg effect wears off a little. The site is slow enough already… And maybe a tree format wouldn’t be as conducive to the playfulness we’re seeing.
I blocked all white ones due to a huge amount of blanks submitted early on, but am still allowing all blacks. If people start abusing it I’ll have to make them invalid too.
September 16th, 2006 at 7:45 am
Really really great thing! Designing those tiny images makes a lot of fun.
But removing / forbidding dublicates would make it a lot nicer… (It would make the page loading faster, too) :)
greetings,
condor
September 17th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
Amazing tool and runs fast!
I once made some pixel editor in Javascript too, it’s a little buggy http://dmtr.org/guestpixel
not as elegant as yours :)
cheers
September 18th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
i made a tiny font.
accidentally put the Q in twice
but… yeah.
it’s an interesting study in the way i worked to make it, with the whole thing keeping the history and all. also, the “poontang” that’s there now… classy. haha.
September 18th, 2006 at 2:07 pm
Hi Laura, I figured the font was you… Thanks! It looks great. I added some international characters while you were working on it.
Takashi mentioned some interest in a similar system for creating bitmap fonts. He looked into using freetype, but then the semester came along…