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Gallery #26

Closed ninapaley closed 3 years ago

ninapaley commented 3 years ago

Let users save "creature" images to a gallery. Part of the save process requires entering a title. I am having fun naming my screenshots, adding a title almost makes it poetry.

toolness commented 3 years ago

Ideas brought up during brainstorming:

ninapaley commented 3 years ago

This is how I imagine the Gallery dialog box should look: gallery submission dialog There will be a "submit to gallery" button at MysticSymbolic. When the user clicks it, the above dialog appears, and whatever image they made gets submitted via some process created by @toolness and @webaissance .

The user can enter a title and artist/author name; those boxes are lightly pre-filled with "Untitled" and "Unknown", respectively, indicating that if they don't enter anything that's what the image will be called.

Hopefully an "I am not a robot" checkbox will reduce bot abuse, somehow. There is a potential for spammer abuse, where people enter crappy urls for title or artist, or abusive titles like "kill all TERFs", but I don't think we should worry about that until it happens. I don't want to discourage URLs or social media handles in the "by" box, yet.

Speaking of social media handles, we should also have E-Z "share" buttons on gallery images! Or even on main MysticSymbolic pages. Buttons could include:

ninapaley commented 3 years ago

As for the Random Artist Statement, maybe we could link with this: https://www.artybollocks.com/generator.html The "short artist statement" on the lower right would be ideal.

But oh noes! It says, "Copyright © 2011-2018. All rights reserved." That sucks. Maybe they'd be willing to share anyway. They do have this page: https://www.artybollocks.com/bollocks-in-practice.html

webaissance commented 3 years ago

Cool. Thanks for this Nina. I will think about implementations and work with the team on it. -Dave

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 7:27 AM Nina Paley @.***> wrote:

This is how I imagine the Gallery dialog box should look: [image: gallery submission dialog] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/79212762/114884375-57175180-9dcb-11eb-9a43-7580f75ef9e0.jpeg There will be a "submit to gallery" button at MysticSymbolic. When the user clicks it, the above dialog appears, and whatever image they made gets submitted via some process created by @toolness https://github.com/toolness and @webaissance https://github.com/webaissance .

The user can enter a title and artist/author name; those boxes are lightly pre-filled with "Untitled" and "Unknown", respectively, indicating that if they don't enter anything that's what the image will be called.

Hopefully an "I am not a robot" checkbox will reduce bot abuse, somehow. There is a potential for spammer abuse, where people enter crappy urls for title or artist, or abusive titles like "kill all TERFs", but I don't think we should worry about that until it happens. I don't want to discourage URLs or social media handles in the "by" box, yet.

Speaking of social media handles, we should also have E-Z "share" buttons on gallery images! Or even on main MysticSymbolic pages. Buttons could include:

  • export SVG
  • export PNG
  • share to Gallery
  • share to social media (twitter, fecebook, instagram, fediverse account, etc.)

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toolness commented 3 years ago

Ok @ninapaley we've got an extremely barebones "gallery" in place now! Unfortunately there are not yet any thumbnails, but you can click on each entry to be taken to the creature/mandala page with the composition pre-loaded in it (which is kind of neat because it allows you to "remix" other people's creations). Will add actual thumbnails soon!

ninapaley commented 3 years ago

Cool @toolness !! Right now I see one link on the gallery page, to Atomic Braniac (nice). I also see the note that you're working on a way to submit to the gallery, I look forward to it!

toolness commented 3 years ago

Oops, sorry, that description was out of date--you can submit to it via the sidebar on the creature and mandala pages!

ninapaley commented 3 years ago

Yay it's working! Now might be a good time to change "creature" to "composition."

toolness commented 3 years ago

Oh interesting... hmm, so my current mental model (and the way I've described things in the code) is that a composition is a generic name for either a creature, a mandala, or any other kinds of things we dynamically generate. Which means that a creature is a type of composition, as is a mandala...

Is there any other term you prefer other than "composition" that we could call a creature? Otherwise I'll have to figure out a different terminology to use within the code for a "composition" so that things don't get too confusing.

ninapaley commented 3 years ago

How about "cluster"?

Is there any other term you prefer other than "composition" that we could call a creature? Otherwise I'll have to figure out a different terminology to use within the code for a "composition" so that things don't get too confusing.

toolness commented 3 years ago

Nice, I like that! Can you file an issue to rename "creature" to "cluster"?

toolness commented 3 years ago

Ok @ninapaley we've got thumbnails in the gallery now! See #220 for more details and screenshots.

toolness commented 3 years ago

Hmm, so with the merging of #220 I feel like the "v1" of the gallery is done, so I'm going to go ahead and close this issue. @ninapaley if there's more/different things you'd like to see done with the gallery, please file a separate issue (or start a discussion in the Github Discussions area). Thanks!