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Robert Hodgin
Personal blog · roberthodgin.comdesigngames
Robert Hodgin's personal blog at roberthodgin.com covers design and games. Since 2010, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Experiments with 3D meshes from the Google Maps API”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Robert Hodgin's blog for creative coding and generative art demos, such as a cymatic ferrofluid piece and a gravity simulation. Commenters also credit him as the creator of the magnetosphere iTunes visualizer.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Experiments with 3D meshes from the Google Maps API2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-20
- Meander: a procedural system for generating maps of rivers that never existed2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-26
- Experiments with Cornell Boxes - Eyeo 20122 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-11
What Hacker News says?
I don't know why you would want to use javascript... have a look at this cinder space simulator, it supports oculus and should be easy to convert the cinder app to a screensaver - not to sure about a moving desktop background. http://roberthodgin.com/oculus-rift-gravity/
Comment linking /oculus-rift-gravity/
on “International Space Station HD Livestream”Submitted Meander: a procedural system for generating maps of rivers that never existed as a story · 267 points
HN discussionAmazing demo form one of Cinder's co-authors: http://roberthodgin.com/cymatic-ferrofluid/ He says that he started with Processing, so I'm guessing that at some point he felt limited by the performance he could get out of it.
Comment linking /cymatic-ferrofluid/
on “Cinder: open-source creative C++”- po · 2013-03-13
Submitted Look Up: 100 Year Starship Screensaver as a story · 38 points
HN discussion Art and code are definitely compatible, and there is certainly a market for digitally curated / created art. If you want to create art, spend time exploring and educating yourself. Learn what you like, what you find interesting and what you feel is worth exploring. There are quite a few people who seem to be making money in these fields, via commissioned works - one that spring to mind is Robert Hodgin [1]/[2]. Ther…
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on “Ask HN: Is there any market for creative coders?”Submitted Meander: Maps of rivers that never existed as a story · 9 points
HN discussion- po · 2013-03-13
Just for some context here, Robert Hodgin is a graphics programmer/artist who does really cool work under the name fight404. You've seen his work as magnetosphere which is now the default iTunes visualizer. http://roberthodgin.com/magnetosphere-itunes-visualizer/
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on “Look Up: 100 Year Starship Screensaver” Submitted Stippling as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted A procedural system for generating historical maps of rivers that never existed as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experiments with 3D meshes from the Google Maps API as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taxi, Taxi digital installation of realtime NYC taxis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experiments with Cornell Boxes - Eyeo 2012 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Robert Hodgin's (flight404) amazing Cinder demos from Eyeo 2012 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Maps API X Houdini as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Realtime simulation of aquatic feeding frenzies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rendering the Earth via OpenGL as a story · 1 points
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