Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh
ngokevin.github.com
Currently features the sky, the ground, and a tree.
Happy little clouds are in progress.
ngokevin.github.com
Happy little clouds are in progress.
The Joy of Painting is great (Bob Ross Incorporated, not so much). I don't think I'd ever hang one of those quaint images on a wall. But the quick techniques to achieve a certain effect are fascinating, at least to an ignoramus like me, e.g. pushing down with a certain brush to get tree branches, or swooshing down on previously drawn stuff to create reflections on water.
Incidentally, I've always thought there was something almost algorithmic to it: the motives themselves were really formulaic, and the techniques reminded me of certain Photoshop tools and brush effects. The submission is a fantastic start, but I think you could go much farther than that.
And it's further a demonstration of how magical Bob Ross was; without his narration, it's just an insipid landscape, if the clouds are not happy and little, and the left cloud does not have the right cloud as a friend.
It would be interesting to expand this to allow user control - a bunch of procedural high level brushes.
The goal would be to get someone who can't draw able to drastically influence the output, but still make the result look good.
Do you mind if I pinch the idea and see what I can come up with in that direction?
I mean it's nice to have such a thing on your CV, but why post it to HN? (and why upvote it?)
Though, if in memory of Bob Ross, why is it named after Gogh?
http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/poster/alex_NPAR.pdf
The full paper is behind a membership wall here https://diglib.eg.org but you can read the first page here
https://diglib.eg.org/EG/DL/WS/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH09/115-122...
If this puts anyone in the mood to receive some Bob Ross affirmations, I really enjoyed PBS's Bob Ross remix made earlier this year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLO7tCdBVrA