Not very secret project launch...

[elfs]

This is a small, public announcement. Please don't spread this around too much, but I want to announce that HTML5 Fridgemagnets has reached the alpha stage. The client works well-- it detects poems more or less correctly, the shuffle button works, and the music works-- and yes, there's a mute button.

But more than that, the server works too. When your poem meets some mininum standards (two lines, less that 140 characters), you'll be offered a Tweet This button, and when you do, your work of art will be sent off to a Twitter feed.

Even as I sit here, I'm aware of some heavy-duty security issues with the twitter feed. It ought to accept only poems that are possible from the wordlists, but I haven't instituted that yet. I'm running this under Forever(Express), so theoretically it'll restart if there's a problem, but who knows? I'm new to Express.

Feel free to post poems, though! And tell me what you think.

Comments

[dougs.livejournal.com]

I just did "if we who watch between desire..."

I think it's a very pleasing way to pass idle time, probably better for me than some online timewasters.

I routinely run two browser windows side-by-side, each half-a-screen wide, and I was using Fridgemagnets in one of those windows maximised to occupy the whole screen. When I restored the window to its original size (thereby changing its aspect ratio dramatically), all the magnets squished up together horizontally. I wonder if that change has interesting effects on the proximity detection part of your poem-spotting algorithm?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

It doesn't until you re-arrange the tiles of the existing poem; when that happens, the graph of tiles-in-collision will alter themselves dramatically.

That said, the proportional resizing effect was one of the hardest thing in the code to get right, so I'm pleased you noticed it.

[pakraticus.livejournal.com]

Can't figure out how to get it to recognize a second poem.

The last time I did this with real magnets other dinner guests would compete to see what they could produce with the ever dwindling pile so... new problem for you to work on :-).

[elfs.livejournal.com]

If you dismantle the first one, a second one should assemble, but you have to move something close to the second one to attract the algorithm's attention.

You could just refresh. :-)