Funny thing, for some inexplicable reason playing around with the sliders made my feel agressive, not against something in particular but an overall feeling ( that's the best I can describe it ).
At first I thought it was the unreal faces, but after reading about the randomness I figured out it was the jumping between completely unrelated faces.
After switching off randomness I immediately felt calmer due to the smoothly changing faces.
Very interesting! My immediate reaction/name for the feeling I had would be frustration. Your comment made me think about the possible connection between those two feeling and low and behold I quickly found this-
it made me angry too. i got the urge to jump on here and berate the creator for rationalised reasons. it's because the random flipping in response to your reasoned movement feels like an something between an insult and an assault
I hope you realize the extreme effect the completely outrageous decision to have randomize on by default has on people. Turn it off before someone goes crazy for real.
Agreed. Otherwise it undermines the point of having controls.
If the random feature adjusted the settings then it might be a bit more acceptable but leaving them the same whilst drawing a dramatically different face breaks their "control" nature.
Consider submitting an article describing your algorithm to Seeds, submissions have been extended until next Friday 5th September. Seeds is a zine about generative software http://www.procjam.com/seeds/submit/
I've tried to make something like this as well, but I've probably aimed too high art-wise :) I really like the style of your generator.
So the traditional behaviour of 'key repeat' has been replaced by 'long press context menu'?
My initial reaction was one of revulsion ("Why do they need to meddle with everything") but after taking a few moments to calm down I realised I could get used to that change.
I think to make it attractive, I would want a quick way to switch between behaviours when I need them. From what I can see, the change between 'long press' and 'key repeat' is effected by launching Terminal, making a configuration change and restarting the machine. I find this unappealing.
Not the same thing, but this reminded me of forensic face drawing software like Identi-Kit. It's been many years since I experimented with such software, but I found it almost impossible to make a believable match to a known face. Working with a photo of Jennifer Aniston or Tom Cruise right beside me, I could not make a convincing match to either actor despite hours of effort with a guided UI. The tiniest shift in angles and proportions in a human face makes the difference between recognizable and unrecognizable.
I heard that they deliberately try to not make them too realistic, as it then over-fits. They aren’t sure, so a bit of abstraction helps to overlook where it doesn’t quite match.
I wish all the controls work with randomize on – so I can have random image with some parameters fixed. e.g., if I change some parameter, it stays fixed.
this is actually a really cool, really fast-feedback way to see what tiny changes to the shape or positioning of a mouth or nose gives a dramatically different visual cue. People who've been drawing for years probably know all the little tweaks to make characters look differently, but as someone who isn't, I learnt a something new. Nice!
This is why I love drawing faces. Such a subtle change can make such a big difference to the end drawing. It's really interesting. I guess that's because our brains are so hard wired to process faces.
It's an interesting concept. Seems to have some issues in firefox with changing numbers. It looks like many of the numbers go to a random number after changing rather than the one you set it to.
Thank you all for the comments - I made few improvements:
* Randomize is not on by default
* Added more options for adjusting jaw/chin shape
* Better ranges for some variables
The UI is not the most intuitive and variables has been named badly - sorry for that.
You may want to switch "randomize" off, so all variables are in use. Try out frepeatx and frepeaty, while randomization is on.