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evan_
In case you missed Java applets circa 1997.
dwharden
We've come a long way in lake-reflecting technology, to be sure. Just think, you don't even need a plugin!
Produce
All you need is an i7 and 8GB of RAM!
donohoe
Indeed. If only this came out when I was still at the Times... could have saved journalism.
kenrikm
First thing I thought was GeoCities 2.0 ! I remember seeing effects like this all over the web back in the day. Ahh the memories.
ricardobeat
First thought that crossed my mind. We had one of those in my early teen days band's website :D
ranza
Where are the duke nukem strippers?
dfischer
Came in here looking for this, and was pleased. Thanks.
smiler
Really struggling to think how the creator of this feels it would have a use
tbranyen
Well the README does say: "No license, do what you want as long as it involves some Cool Ass Lakes."

Sounds legit to me!

buu700
Wait, so I'm not allowed to fork it unless the new project uses ass-lakes? Shit, there goes my startup idea.
Produce
I presume that these ass-lakes are located down south somewhere?
pbhjpbhj
The git headline is also "remember lake applets? me neither.". I think we caught a live one here.
[dead] pbhjpbhj
The git headline is also "remember lake applets? me neither.". I think we caught a live one here.
rhizome31
It would go rather well with an animated gif of Jesus walking.
thoradam
The source is 130 lines, if nothing it's at least a teaching example of how easily one can play with canvas.
webjprgm
Maybe a JS-based MUD adventure game that shows background images for each room.

It looks really cool, I kinda hope I do find a good use for it.

swah
This shall look terrific on my new geocities home page. Let me open Frontpage.
ndcrandall
This is a good portfolio builder, I'm impressed. Don't think I'd ever use it though.
knes
This effect was my first used of flash, called Shockwave back in the 90' ;)
novalis
My first use of actionscript was a spell checker. It worked great. Good times.
kmfrk
I found this trivially easy to set up, as long as I followed all Clippy's steps.
ranza
Count the hours till somebody makes this with CSS
valuegram
The sad thing is, I'm going to have design clients sending me this now, saying they want it on their sites. Long live the 90s!
cannuk
Currently I am working on blink.js. It's a travesty that the blink tag is no longer supported.
jQueryIsAwesome
There you go.

    jQuery.fn.blink = function(){
    	var that = this;
    	setInterval(function(){
    		that.css("opacity",function(i,v){return 1>>v})
    	},1500)	
    	return this;
    }
untog
Surely visibility, not opacity. Has to be quicker.
kk3
$("#lake-img").lake is not a function
gala8y
I really like comment pages like this one - where all seriousness is lifted for a second. I know, its HN. This shouldn't have happened. Still, I would even say its _healthy_ that we have some of these.
suneilp
The lower right demo of the ocean sunset has an oddly familiar rhythm (and disturbing) to it.
mikehuffman
I'm confused. The web page didn't auto-start midi music and there were way less animated cartoon animal gifs than expected!

Anyway, good job for what it is, and kudos for releasing source!

pardner
is there any way to add <blink> to text that's reflected in the lake?