Basically, it's a fun little project for me to try out a whole bunch of new stuff, including the file API, the drag-and-drop-api, openCV and Canvas. It works best in Firefox, and otherwise in chrome (though performance on mac is abysmally slow)
Let me know what you think, and please set a laserified photo as your Facebook profile picture :)
Guys you could implement a GET method with an argument being image to be retrieved so people could email just link to their relatives, bosses and employees, not having a burden of retrieving this pic first.
Stuff like bad link, wrong content type or picture too big could be simply rejected.
It's obviously still beta, functionality is still missing and updating an app gives problems (it takes a while and your site is offline for a bit). The guys are super helpful though, and it's very stable and fast. So yes, I would recommend it!
Very, very cool! Here's the viral touch you're missing: a gallery, or at least photo sharing. When I hit the tweet button at the bottom, it should allow others to see the photo I just laser-eyesed (laserized, ha, get it?) and encourage to laser-eyes one of their own. Let's see it happen :)
I initially offloaded all the image saving to Facebook, but (private) photo sharing would be a good idea, yeah. I'll see what I can do, thanks for the kind words :)
Sounds like you are hesitant to make a public photo gallery. I'd recommend building one though. From my experience with cornify.com, having a public gallery really activates people - way better social proof than just the Facebook/Twitter share numbers.
When somebody saves an image, I'd ask "Can we show this to other people?"
You mean something is not working on Cornify on IE7? Just tested and all seems good. Would be great if you could let me know what's not working. Thanks.
Fun app, thanks! :)
but for some reason when I tried to save the image, it crashed my chrome and the second time I am able to save it but still it slowed down chrome.
Using safari 5 it says "INSUFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY. USE ANOTHER BROWSER" but didn't tell me which browsers are supported, which was confusing, what tech is safari missing?
The drag and drop api and the filereader api (nightlies are supported). I'll update the message with supported browsers, and I'll be implementing an old-style file uploader soon to support Safari and Opera.
Doesn't work for me. Uploading a 124kb .jpg of someone looking at the camera with a fairly boring background. It starts "searching for laser mounting points", gets about 1/8th of the way down the image, and hangs.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 82.6 ms ] threadBasically, it's a fun little project for me to try out a whole bunch of new stuff, including the file API, the drag-and-drop-api, openCV and Canvas. It works best in Firefox, and otherwise in chrome (though performance on mac is abysmally slow)
Let me know what you think, and please set a laserified photo as your Facebook profile picture :)
Guys you could implement a GET method with an argument being image to be retrieved so people could email just link to their relatives, bosses and employees, not having a burden of retrieving this pic first.
Stuff like bad link, wrong content type or picture too big could be simply rejected.
updated: also, definitely make an iphone app for this!
When somebody saves an image, I'd ask "Can we show this to other people?"
Hey, i didn't notice the Facebook connect thing. You should center it above the pic.
Also, you could load the profile pic by default to save the user a step.
It would be cool to allow me to pick from a list of my friends and give'em laserey.es.
...and throw an ad on there, dude!!
A list of friends would be cool, but it's hard to get them via the Facebook api (Just getting a full size facebook image is hard: http://kilianvalkhof.com/2011/javascript/full-size-profile-p... )
I'd put the "Login with facebook to post pictures to Facebook!" box under or next to the picture.
Also keeping it hidden and making it appear after the laser has been placed, might also be a good idea.
I must say the same as I did on another project here today - it needs linking to the result. then it'll spread viral (I will share for sure :D)
Would be great to have nice some kind of easy file sharing.
Edit: I asked the same question on Twitter. Kilian response is below:
"Python-opencv and HAAR cascades, first I detect faces, then I detect eyes. :)"
(http://twitter.com/?status=@kilianvalkhof%20&in_reply_to...)
Chromium on Ubuntu
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