LurdKek
commented
7 years ago Thanks for your critique and kind words Nicklas! Made me laugh a little, that was nice ^_^
Open NickSander opened 7 years ago
LurdKek
commented
7 years ago Thanks for your critique and kind words Nicklas! Made me laugh a little, that was nice ^_^
Hello there, Kekkest of the Lurds!
I reviewed your mini_exercise(s) and i must say, its very interesting how transparent you made your coding progress! It shows your interest in coding and the sheer hunger for learning new features of javascript. I appreciate that you included it in your portfolio.
For the sake of me, not using my entire evening on commenting on all your different programs, i will take main focus on your "landscape" software, which seems to be the primary product.
What i first experienced was a nice and suiting landscape, which kind of reminds me of the old school windows wallpaper. What a comforting flashback! (sadly, the canvas is a bit too big for my mac 15" aspect ratio, so it took me some time to notice the hills in the foreground). My first experience was the background changing color whilst moving the cursor around the canvas! very cool and surprisingly fun to play around with for a minute or two. Admittedly, It did take me some time to realize that if i pressed the triangle in the right area, magic would happen. It feels like the program is having a seizure, or i suddenly got injected with some funky mushrooms, and totally changes your experience of the suiting landscape. None of the less, i like the simplicity of the program, taking an abstract painting and playing around the the colors! Not overly dramatic or overly complicated.
Without looking at the code behind the software, the program seems relatively simple, which makes the program easy to understand and relate to. You're not confused right away and in cohesion with the suiting landscape you feel "safe". When you then play around with the canvas and experience the "trip", as i like to refer to it as, the art suddenly feels completely alien to you, and the nice and comforting feeling you previously had, are now replaced with a strange intrigued sensation i quite can't put into words.
In general i like the project a lot, it plays with the aesthetic feeling the user experiences while discovering the painting, and it's a cool way of expressing a glitch/bug as an aesthetic feature instead of a "mistake".
Sincerely Nicklas Sander Sørensen.