[HN Gopher] User: Junnn11
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User: Junnn11
Author : oboes
Score : 232 points
Date : 2023-04-19 16:50 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| andrewmcwatters wrote:
| I don't know why, but I got Pokemon-vibes from some of those
| illustrations. What phenomenal work!
| lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
| Many of them (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20190922_
| Mollisonia_pleno...) are angled similarly to how an opponent
| would be in-game (I guess prior to Gen 9 with its free camera).
| nusaru wrote:
| Anorith[1] and Kabuto[2] are based on anomalocaris and
| xiphosura (horseshoe crabs)
|
| [1]: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Anorith
|
| [2]: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Kabuto
| arthurcolle wrote:
| Listing Kabuto last... shameful!
|
| /s
|
| Props for alphabetical ordering though
| rspoerri wrote:
| These pictures strongly remind me of "Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen
| der Natur (Artforms of Nature) 1899-1904"
|
| https://www.zum.de/stueber/haeckel/kunstformen/natur.html
|
| (unfortunately only the low resolution images
| (Bildschirmauflosung) are still available on the page)
| epilys wrote:
| There's a scan of an old edition on archive.org :
|
| https://archive.org/details/Kunstformen-der-Natur-PHAIDRA_o_...
| Fauntleroy wrote:
| Thank you for your service, Junnn11! This is such a fantastic
| body of work.
| dylan604 wrote:
| This has to be the most in-depth wiki page I've ever read that
| had so little text.
| formerly_proven wrote:
| That's because it's a user page showing the illustrations they
| created.
| dylan604 wrote:
| I understand what it is. It's a jab at how useless a lot of
| the wiki pages can be
| fnordpiglet wrote:
| What a wonderful use of time.
| saeranv wrote:
| The animated illustrations of the "arthropod" biomechanics is
| fascinating. It sheds some light on why arthropods would be
| interesting enough to draw in their own community of enthusiasts.
|
| Spearing:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20220123_stomatopod_strik...
|
| Smashing:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20220123_stomatopod_strik...
|
| In case they manage to find this thread: @Junnn1, do these
| biomechanic animations incorporate the dynamics, or maybe just
| the kinematics of the physical forms? Is there anywhere (i.e.
| blog) where you discuss the techniques you use to develop your
| animations?
| riidom wrote:
| Thanks for your work, Junnn11!
|
| (if you ever read this:) )
| parhamn wrote:
| The image tags on that page need `loading="lazy"`. This made me
| curious what contributing to the wikipedia application (not
| articles) is like. Anyone have any insight/info on this?
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| Personally, I much prefer having the images all download on
| page load. Lazy loaded images never seem to download before I
| scroll to them, so I have to keep waiting for them to come in
| as I go through the page.
| edflsafoiewq wrote:
| You can configure your browser either to ignore
| loading="lazy" completely or to increase the distance below
| the viewport where images load. Search for "lazy" in
| about:config if you use Firefox for example.
| simse wrote:
| Yep, this is one of those issues that get missed because a
| good chunk of SWEs have fast machines and test the
| application locally. I've started enabling throttling in dev
| tools so I can catch these kind of UX problems.
| capableweb wrote:
| It's also one of those things where no matter what you do,
| someone will hate it and other will love it.
|
| Lazy load images? People with bandwidth quotas might praise
| you. Others with sporadic connections will despise it,
| because they can't load the page once and revisit the
| already fully loaded tab when internet disappears. People
| with high bandwidth and no quotas will barely notice
| anything, unless they are quick readers, then they'll blame
| you for not loading the images quickly enough.
|
| Not lazy load images? Everything vice-versa.
| Dalewyn wrote:
| This is a feature that should be determined by the user
| agent rather than the server. It's the user agent that is
| aware of bandwidth limitations and desires of the user,
| after all.
| capableweb wrote:
| Believe it or not, but websites could already implement
| it based on what the user-agent knows about the
| connection already. `navigator.connection` (returns
| NetworkInformation - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
| US/docs/Web/API/NetworkInfo...) supposedly holds what the
| user-agent thinks the connection-type is. Although not
| implemented in Safari nor Firefox.
|
| Although I do think there are concerns around privacy
| when it comes to adding more bits people can use to track
| you, which is probably why it's not implemented in Safari
| or Firefox yet.
|
| Automatically doing lazy-loading of <img/> tags based on
| information not shared with the websites probably would
| break random websites that depend on being able to load
| images outside of the view of the user, for one reason or
| another, so probably won't be possible to fix by now.
| qtzfz wrote:
| No they don't. When my browser tells me it's finished loading
| the page I expect the page to be completely loaded.
| valleyer wrote:
| The application is called MediaWiki.
|
| https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hac...
| nsajko wrote:
| This is awesome! A long time ago I used to browse Deviantart
| looking for similar stuff. Here's a nice example:
|
| https://www.deviantart.com/albertonykus/art/The-Cartoon-Guid...
| sk0g wrote:
| DeviantArt has taken a very particular direction! I suspect the
| advent of ArtStation has siphoned away the creatives posting
| for their portfolio.
|
| I kept trying to use it for finding reference material for a
| game I was working on, except every query I tried returned
| results like I had suffixed porn to the search. Maybe deviant
| is doing more of the heavy lifting in the name now...
| blymphony wrote:
| Warning that this links to illustrations of bugs. That sort of
| thing makes me jump out of my seat
| personjerry wrote:
| Just wait until they learn about debugging!
| lxe wrote:
| This certainly led me on a Wikipedia rabbithole into extinct
| arthopods. My favorite used to be Anomalocaris (anomalous
| shrimp), until I discovered
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovatiocaris, the "Innovation
| Crab"
| narag wrote:
| I just see a reference to some "problematicus" species in the
| article, I wonder what it did to earn that troublemaker rap :)
| nbar1 wrote:
| It's contributions like this that really show the vast amount of
| knowledge that can be found on Wikipedia.
| rvieira wrote:
| What a coincidence!
|
| Only yesterday I was reading the WP page on Camel Spiders, saw
| the chewing animation,
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Junnn11#/media/File:20220...,
| and thought it was quite cool!
| doesnt_know wrote:
| Wonderful illustrations!
|
| Whenever I see someone that is interested in a very specific
| niche and obviously expends a lot of effort towards it, I'm
| always in awe. How did they become interested in the topic? Why
| choose this specific thing? How do they keep their motivation to
| continue with it?
|
| I've personally never really felt like I've cared enough about
| anything this much. Because of this, I've always felt like I'm
| missing something in life. I would love to be passionate about
| something as much as Junnn11 is about Arthropods.
| golemiprague wrote:
| [dead]
| danjoredd wrote:
| People obsessed with niche subjects and go all out on that are
| the backbone of society.
|
| My mind goes to the guy that packaged 1/3 of all Arch packages
| in the official repo
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqMf6XFacR8&pp=ygUKZGlzdHJvd...
| jaredandrews wrote:
| Hell, just this youtuber is a good example of what you are
| saying. This guy, 'DistroTube', has a ton of entry level
| videos about seemingly niche linux topics. Even the video you
| posted has a little command line tutorial embedded into it.
|
| I come across him whenever I am trying to figure out what a
| specific distro or tool _looks and feels_ like. If you search
| any distro name plus "distrotube" there is probably a video
| of him setting it up and playing around with it.
|
| I have wondered about this guys background before and finally
| looked it up tonight.
|
| > Despite the geekiness of my content, I have never actually
| worked in IT or a computer-related industry. Although Linux
| and technology have always been my hobby, I worked in the
| retail industry until recently. In 2020, with the pandemic
| and the subsequent shutdown, I lost the job that I had at the
| time. The retailer that I worked for went bankrupt and cut
| most of their supervisory positions (including mine).
| Thankfully, I already had a side job of sorts--making YouTube
| videos! So since the pandemic started, my full-time job has
| been making video content.
|
| > I have been strictly a Linux user since 2008. The distro
| that I currently run is ArcoLinux with the xmonad window
| manager. Some of the software that I use daily includes GIMP
| (for graphics), Kdenlive (video editing), Audacity (audio
| editing), and OBS (for recording/streaming video). I also use
| a distribution of Emacs called Doom Emacs. It is my preferred
| text editor, although I often use Vim as well, especially if
| I am already in a terminal.
|
| from https://people.zsa.io/derek-taylor/
|
| Which still leaves a lot of mystery to the "how did he get
| into this" question.
| slipandafall wrote:
| Here's another one, apparently the author and maintainer of
| helm.el is a French mountain guide with no IT history.
|
| https://sachachua.com/blog/2018/09/interview-with-thierry-
| vo...
| philtar wrote:
| [dead]
| imadethis wrote:
| I'll add this guy, who is building a 1:60 model 777 out of
| paper, with unfathomable levels of detail:
| https://www.lucaiaconistewart.com/model-777
| csdvrx wrote:
| We all have weird interest, it's the long tail.
|
| Magic happens when you find someone with the same weird
| interest: emulation brings innovation through iterations!
|
| Maybe someday I'll find someone interested in running Excel
| through wine rendering in Sixels within a terminal :)
|
| And before you ask, yes I've enjoyed way too much reading
| about https://github.com/taviso/123elf and the history behind
| it!
| Night_Thastus wrote:
| The page on the Arthropod Head Problem was an interesting skim.
| Nice send.
| greenyoda wrote:
| If you scroll down far enough on the page, you'll get to some
| neat animated images. Or, search for "movement" or "mobility".
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