14 comments

  • AstroJetson5 days ago
    This was fun, I liked playing with it.<p>I&#x27;d like to ask for a feature that I can pass a query string<p>wwww.silentpoems.net?poem=How+do+I+love+thee%3F+Let+me+count+the+ways.+I+love+thee+to+the+depth+and+breadth+and+height+My+soul+can+reach%2C+when+feeling+out+of+sight+For+the+ends+of+being+and+ideal+grace.<p>and have the poem rendered. That way I can send poems to my beloved.
  • myfonj5 days ago
    I think it could be neat to leverage ligatures, i.e. preceding glyph could either affect the seed of the next or even make different &quot;cursive&quot; connecting swashes. Words could become pictures with individual &quot;glyphs&quot; blended together.
    • laviniap5 days ago
      that&#x27;s such a cool idea, I&#x27;ll play around with it. right now each symbol is independent of its neighbors (except for the bezier curves piecing them together)
    • dleink5 days ago
      and then as long as we&#x27;re doing logic on variations, the time between keypresses definitely varies.
      • myfonj4 days ago
        And maybe also the press duration; even with preserved auto-repeat, there seems to be quite a variety in typing: getting duration from key-down to key-up between 30 and 120 milliseconds. Naturally we can &quot;squeeze&quot; it up to auto-repeat threshold, which is usually around 500 ms.<p>What surprised me is how often I have concurrently pressed two or more keys during typing, never occurred to me how frequently key press of the next key happens before the previous key was released. It could also be interesting signal perhaps.)<p>E: key press duration measurements doodle: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codepen.io&#x2F;myf&#x2F;full&#x2F;KwPwVWE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codepen.io&#x2F;myf&#x2F;full&#x2F;KwPwVWE</a>
  • smusamashah5 days ago
    This is so beautiful. The animations are dynamic, love how every single letter animates dynamically making itself different even if repeated.<p>Minor problems unless they are intentional: I can&#x27;t hold on a key and let it type e.g. can&#x27;t press and hold backspace to clear all text.<p>When reached at the end, can still type but the text becomes invisible. can&#x27;t scroll and see that.
    • laviniap5 days ago
      thank you so much! some of that indeed are small bugs that I overlooked, I&#x27;ll try to fix them soon. the typing of one key at a time is on purpose (this project is meant to be used &quot;in real life&quot; in combination with an analogue typewriter)
  • sroussey5 days ago
    Does not work on mobile (can not type)
    • miwaniza5 days ago
      Click on the question mark at top left twice. Helped on iPhone
      • laviniap5 days ago
        ah great tip, this works for me too (chrome on iOS)
    • laviniap5 days ago
      yes, it&#x27;s a known issue unfortunately. I couldn&#x27;t get it to bring up the keyboard (I tried even with a hidden text field) hopefully you can try it on desktop
  • srean5 days ago
    Madam I&#x27;m Adam<p>becomes petal hill sunrise<p>Without case<p>Or space.<p>Feature request: could you make d and b have symmetry ? More here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.johndcook.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;12&#x2F;27&#x2F;visually-symmetric-words&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.johndcook.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;12&#x2F;27&#x2F;visually-symmetric...</a>
  • westcoast495 days ago
    I imagine this could be sold to upscale hotels or concert arenas, for display on a big screen in a reception area or foyer.
    • laviniap5 days ago
      ha definitely fancier than I had in mind! :D thank you
  • greeniskool5 days ago
    If you press tab, then Ctrl+A then backspace, you can delete the help icon.<p>Very cute website, I really like how every glyph looks, some more abstract than others.
  • dmje5 days ago
    Love it, amazing work. Was about to ask you to enable a downloadable image and then right clicked and found you can download the image :-)
  • jpopesculian5 days ago
    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20241126154751&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;silentpoems.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20241126154751&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;silentpoe...</a>
  • barbazoo5 days ago
    Beautiful, nice work, I bet that was fun!
    • laviniap5 days ago
      hehe yes indeed, making it was a really nice flow
  • lovegrenoble5 days ago
    The animations are awesome
    • laviniap5 days ago
      thank you so much, I really appreciate it
  • macu5 days ago
    Beautiful!
    • laviniap5 days ago
      thank you so much &lt;3
  • lbeurerkellner5 days ago
    This is so awesome.
    • laviniap5 days ago
      thank you so much &lt;3
  • phirschybar5 days ago
    love this.