[HN Gopher] Index of Aesthetics ___________________________________________________________________ Index of Aesthetics Author : detaro Score : 74 points Date : 2023-09-02 11:29 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (cari.institute) (TXT) w3m dump (cari.institute) | yoyopa wrote: | pagination is the worst aesthetic | simbolit wrote: | a more elaborate version of this lives at AestheticsWiki: | | * https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Aesthetics_Wiki | | * https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Aesthetics | rogerclark wrote: | While similar in spirit, CARI (the website linked in the post) | is about aesthetics that can be found in consumer products. | Aesthetics Wiki is broader, looser, and involved anything that | people want to assign a name to. There are many things on | Aesthetics Wiki that do not correspond to anything found in the | consumer market. | paulryanrogers wrote: | Feels like these classifications are AI generated and possibly | some of the art too. Can an art expert weigh in? | rogerclark wrote: | This website is meticulously curated by passionate artists who | love this sort of thing. So no, neither of those things is | true. | PTOB wrote: | This is a great sample of "truth [being] stranger than | fiction". Can verify many of the examples from memory. Most | memorable: the Encarta Encyclopedia CD-ROM illustration/splash | screen. | frostburg wrote: | No, they're all real (some are even rather insightful) and all | the examples that I have seen are real. | [deleted] | nakeru wrote: | This website has existed for a while. I know some of the | examples to be real. When it comes to names, I think they've | explained the origin in some cases. There's a log of the | changes they've made over time. | simbolit wrote: | Whenever I open a specific aesthetic, it is shown below a grey | semi-transparent overlay, and a white box with "Title (untitled) | Description (no description)" in the center. The overlay can't be | closed as far as I can see. Strange behavior. | | Safari on iPadOS. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-09-03 23:00 UTC)