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One note I find the heavy emphasis on the black lines in the design a bit distracting. The colors itself become a bit of a sidenote here.

Also I get seasick from the animation when changing colors, would be nice if just the colors were fading and the layout stays constant.

Another layout improvement I'd do is loose the border around the board and extend the red to the whole page background, also center the board on the page and scale it to the available space. Looks way more fun and playful with the blue pieces and the white dot highlight is a nice touch!

Looks way better! Anyway had fun playing this and did not yet manage to win hehe... Keep it up!

Yeah came here to say this. The different states are almost indistinguishable. I also didn't understand that they where supposed to be holes. I'd make the shadow effect much more subtle and have the holes in the background color so they seem like cut out of the red board vs very bright white pieces. Also the selected indicator would be more noticeable in an entirely different color like yellow.

If you want to make it really cool implement drag and drop. When you start dragging a piece add a sublte hightlight to the allowed destination holes.

As an ex smoker I disapprove of the idealizing depiction of cigarettes. Nevertheless I find the project very interesting and wonder if you are willing to share the code?

It's not a small thing as it implicates millions in their daily lives. So a bad design decision on this scale trickes upwards and has huge costs for a society. The points the tweeter made were very well thought out. Everything should always be up for debate.

Epigenetics for example show that certain gene switches are passed on between generations. Rat mothers that experience anxiety pass this on to their offspring. There is this whole lecture on behavioral biology by Stanford Prof Robert Sapolsky which I highly recommend: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7E21BF91F3F9683 Anyway I think having a clear understanding on where you are coming from, with acceptance, is a requirement for moving into the future with the best of your abilities.

In a way it might also be knowledge that is passed on between generations. So my parents and grandparents passed on their deep seated insecurity that comes from their experience of war - but as history shows these extreme situations can return. Maybe my own anxiety might be a preparation for that. I like to think it has such a dimension. Experiences of past generations become part of the genetic markup for the future. Epigenetics is a keyword here.

I can trace my personal issues as a result of my parents experience to their parents experience in WW2 (Germany). My grandfather for example as a teenager had to clear landmines as a prisoner of war. The damage from these experiences lasts for generations, like a ripple effect.

I don't see the need for anyone to shove themselves with trash meat daily. Organic quality meat maybe once a week is definitely affordable.

people can learn, but only after the fact.

Macromedia/Adobe Director (1985-2013) was a really cool authoring environment. You could drag and drop animations and interactive experience together really fast. It was an animation software first but had its own scripting language. Even kids could create complex experiences and games with it. Today I need to code everything first before I am able to see anything. I miss this easy direct wysiwyg way of doing things. I think the development processes for the modern web platform are very limiting creatively. The end of Flash is also a huge loss in that regard.

It was actually a pretty cool site. You would reserve one of the free square "tiles" and would only see a thin stripe of the neighboring tile that you'd paint next to. You'd get a png image with something like 10 pixels of the neigboring tiles on the edges, that you had to blend into, and given 24 hours I think to reupload to the site. Only when all 4 neighboring tiles were completed a tile would be revealed. It was a lot of fun. They also had stuff like imaginary gold coins for X number of painted tiles, not for yourself, but that you could award to a tile you especially liked somebody else made.

I also like the art in the sense that it allows all kinds of perspectives to flow into the image, and there is a way greater complexity than somebody alone could create. It would be worthwhile to recreate the site - maybe I'll do it some day (-:

Hahaha, thanks. I remembered this site i used to spend time on where people actually collaborated on weird quilt paintings back around 2000 - now this was a lot of fun. Sadly not functional anymore and only as a gallery http://www.ice.org/tiles/ The paintings might be a bit uglyish, but I prefer them any day to the kind of tech fetishization Google is presenting here.

It works completely contrary to what it pretends. There is no creativity and creative collaboration happening here. Everything I draw is turned into a predefined shaped. Everything unique is translated into something generic. I think there is a serious misunderstanding about the value of creativity happening here, and I very much hope this is not the future Google is imagining for us.

can you add some context?

I find it annoying that the site nags me to sign up. This is driving me away immediately.

I also ask myself why the images of the designs are so tiny. Not really able to see any details. It seems especially pointless on the shown webdesign screenshot where I can't make out anything at all. Or did I miss something? As the images are important here they should be shown as large as possible and also be zoomable.

I think you're stepping into a fallacy here. Of course every thought process is bound to biological processes in the brain. So we can see this as some sort of biochemical mapping of our understanding and perception of the world, and our social status in it. Why should the solution to a negative outlook be to mess with the chemistry alone, through drugs?

You can just as well ask the other way around, what kind of world and experience is leading to such a detrimental biochemical mapping. The woman in the article describes this herself, she was called fat and ugly by her father throughout childhood. This has to do with social status, not brain chemistry. I find it quite frankly disturbing that the solution to such a learned insecurity should be just drugs.

Been annoyed about this for a long time. Google still knows about my home address as I have that label set in my Google Maps settings, it just won't let me use it unless I allow them to track all my search history. Wtf. Evil design pattern for sure.

I think you underestimate the link between physical and mental health. A fit body gives you a different baseline confidence. People react more positive to you. All social things considered, deep down we're all apes, so risk averse behavior might have something to do with a subliminal knowledge that you won't be able to defend yourself physically. Also exercise promotes neurogenesis which is basically the foundation to change your mind and overcome anxiety, depression, addiction...

If you suffer from anxiety, cut out all booze and caffeine, and start exercising.

I imagine these systems are going to be able to understand every motive of every person. If I am thinking this through correctly, at some point they are going to be able to precisely control the behavior of everybody. The systems will know what information to show you for a desired outcome. Who knows what that future is going to look like.

This is ignorant and does not help anybody. You do not create value.

I also thought this was already the common analysis ... the drivers are ultimately cannibalizing their own jobs.

should implement a proper line drawing algorithm

I dont know, would this have informative value for blind people? But certainly the object is not the artwork itself anymore, its just a transfer of structural information. It is also subject to a high level of interpretation of the recreating sculptor. Doesn't really make sense to me.

There's an irony to them picking the Mona Lisa, a painting that is populary seen as an icon of art, but really only on a very primitive level. It is almost just a media invention of what art is - and there it stops. I'd argue nobody is really seeing the mona lisa anymore.

Flash should still have its legitimation as an authoring tool. I think the direct approach in which you can throw together a scene or an animation has its value. The tools you use influence design decisions. Of course, technology wise, we should be happy without it. But if you always start a project with coding first, it limits your thinking. I fancy all the nice webgl demos and data visualizations, but they mostly lack a meaningful human perspective. Authoring tools like Flash and Director did provide a different feedback loop, not a data point of view but a narrative one.

This is based on an older project of mine. It started out as an Android app written in Java/Libgdx.

The patterns are actually constructed and drawn directly in code. For the web version, I reused the java code and wrote an interface that passes the drawing calls over to Three.js, respectively now constructing the very same patterns in the browser.

Really glad this is now able to reach a larger audience.

They lack a bit of contrast for my taste.

Imagine if it was HTML5