Yes, please. I like the concept, but found using the dials really fiddly and unintuitive. They don't seem to "turn" like one would expect, working only off the height of the mouse cursor after starting interaction.
I always found it strange that VST knobs were actually sliders in disguise. After a while you get used to it, but I can see how confusing it might be to users.
If he wanted the knobs to look exactly like his existing dials, I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to modify the plugin and add an extra dot at the position of the value.
I just noticed that there's a little color swatch on the right side of the screen that allows you to change the background color. Combine all this with a nice color scheme and you can get something that looks really cool.
That part is, to me, a UI disaster. What you can do though is click and drag upwards, even out of the knob, and it will work (barely, because it's incredibly not sensitive)
Yes. Those stupid knobs confused me terribly. I kept trying to move the mouse cursor as if it were my finger, using it to rotate that little notch on the knob. Because, like, it's a knob... right? I mean, I've used knobs before. That's how they work. And this is a knob. I know that, because it looks like one. EVEN THE STUPID BAR GOES ROUND THE KNOB. It's telling you to rotate it. And then you rotate it, and it doesn't work.
What, you don't usually tie a string around your knobs and pull up or down, depending on how you want it to turn?
Seriously, though, once I figured out how they work (it took a few seconds), it was just fine. I don't know what all the furore is about, it's at most a minor inconvenience.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into an alternative control that's more intuitive. This kind of knob control is common in a lot of audio applications and is really quite nice to use once you're used to it, but I want geometee to be a fun discovery for people, and this sounds like it caused you (and others) some confusion and frustration.
I accidentally created a tree with way too many branches on http://geometee.com/#!/Work005FractalTree and now the presets load really slowly, sorry. Could you delete that?
Yeah that one can really kill your computer. In a proper desktop app the developer gets a lot more control over processing of tasks like this, but in the browser the best I can do is limit the number of branches or the depth, and hope your computer/tablet is fast enough to not get too slow. Thanks for the feedback!
Ultimately I'll program the site to allow purchases. I hadn't gotten around to it, but given the interest the site's gotten recently I'm kind of kicking myself.
Maybe a bit off-topic but I enquired on Quora a few months ago on how one would go about simulating the CP1919 Cover. (I wanted it laser cut on my MacBook Pro through the services of uncover.com) and here's the answer:
After reading "The Blind Watchmaker" I did something similar to this project -- in Visual Basic! (My excuse for using such an abhorrent language is that I was only 10 and didn't know any better).
Which makes me think that this project is ripe for a "artificial selection" mode in which you get multiple mutated copies and pick the right one, slowly directing the parameters in a 'pleasing' direction. Here's a cool video that demos Dawkins' watchmaker program from way back when: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUkL2bLFiOU
I wish this was open source. I'd love to make it animated. It'd be real neat to have something that changes from one aesthetically pleasing shape to another.
Edit: Or having the various parameters put to different aspects of music would be awesome as well.
Hi everyone, I'm the man behind geometee. I haven't quite finished developing it, so hadn't widely announced it.
It's really exciting to get your feedback and see the awesome things you've been creating with it.
I will revisit the knob UI based on the feedback here. These seem really intuitive to some people (normally those who play around with audio software) whereas sliders might be more usable to the majority.
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That said, really awesome demo!
But I'm used to interfaces for VSTs (audio generation/effects plugins) that usually have this exact interaction mode. See http://www.protoolerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/screenshot_O... for an example of one.
(Sometimes VST knobs also have the extra of horizontal movement being a "fine-tune" mode, even, which is very handy.)
If he wanted the knobs to look exactly like his existing dials, I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to modify the plugin and add an extra dot at the position of the value.
http://slides.html5rocks.com/#new-form-types
I just noticed that there's a little color swatch on the right side of the screen that allows you to change the background color. Combine all this with a nice color scheme and you can get something that looks really cool.
Dear people, stop doing this.
Seriously, though, once I figured out how they work (it took a few seconds), it was just fine. I don't know what all the furore is about, it's at most a minor inconvenience.
If there's a design you'd like on a tshirt, let me know and we can make it happen via RedBubble: http://www.redbubble.com/explore/geometee
http://imgur.com/OaKCSUp
http://www.quora.com/Data-Visualization/What-would-be-a-way-...
You get to it by clicking export: blob:http%3A//geometee.com/1692d5b3-b837-4181-bae4-7c6a997ab22a
Ah, found it, very interesting: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#url
http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/#url
Which makes me think that this project is ripe for a "artificial selection" mode in which you get multiple mutated copies and pick the right one, slowly directing the parameters in a 'pleasing' direction. Here's a cool video that demos Dawkins' watchmaker program from way back when: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUkL2bLFiOU
Edit: Or having the various parameters put to different aspects of music would be awesome as well.
It's really exciting to get your feedback and see the awesome things you've been creating with it.
I will revisit the knob UI based on the feedback here. These seem really intuitive to some people (normally those who play around with audio software) whereas sliders might be more usable to the majority.
Any ideas for other directions I could take this?