Show HN: MMOndrian(mmondrian.com)
74 pointsby neural_thing8 months ago14 comments
  • manbitesdog8 months ago
    Love the idea, silly as it is! What came before, the app idea or the pun?
  • detourdog8 months ago
    Does this use the DeStijl manifesto. There were actual rules about how to use color and lines.
  • Heliodex8 months ago
    Awesome! I haven't had this much fun since r/Place.

    The ultimate territorial acquisition strategy seems to be as follows:

    - Pick a desired colour

    - Choose a place to found your empire, ideally somewhere with a lot of large rectangles and a colour that takes few clicks to turn to yours

    - Left click tiles to capture them for your colour

    - Right click those same tiles many times to subdivide them into areas much smaller. What took you 1 click to capture will now take anyone else hundreds!

  • gschizas8 months ago
    This doesn't seem to work at all for me, but I don't see any error messages in the console or anything... I just see a dark gray screen with an (i) on the top left (with the instructions), but nothing seems to have any effect (left or right clicking, using the scroll wheel or dragging the mouse with left or right click) don't seem to have any effect. The only effect I'm seeing is right clicking on the page shows a "[CLIENT TRIGGER] Right-click at (123.456, 789.012)" message in the console log.

    I can see that there's some traffic (for example, I see some WSS on socket.io, and some XHR for /state, /clients, /checksum) but it doesn't seem to change anything on the screen.

    • neural_thing8 months ago
      looks like people somehow deleted everything, reset it to starting position
  • sublinear8 months ago
    By the time I arrived to this it was so subdivided it no longer looked like a Mondrian and someone had managed to write "ASS" in the lower left corner by changing the colors of adjacent rectangles.
    • neural_thing8 months ago
      oh it's gone through a lot of iterations - I have seen Among Us characters, people clearing out the canvas down to 8 rectangles, entire thing going one color, had to delete a few obscenities, etc
  • thunkingdeep8 months ago
    Doesn’t seem to work, just unclicks whatever I click.
    • brookst8 months ago
      Same. I thought I was in a battle of wills, and I guess I was, just not the way I thought.
  • brulard8 months ago
    My edits disappear either right away, or I can recolor for 20 seconds and then it gets reloaded with the previous colors.
    • neural_thing8 months ago
      I think I'm having stability issues with lots of users, will try to figure it out, sorry
      • ASalazarMX8 months ago
        OMG I thought I was fighting with someone really fast.
        • riidom8 months ago
          I thought so too! Maybe it was true
      • mmazing8 months ago
        It looks like you need to batch your updates and not tie them directly to UI actions, imo!

        Cool project!

      • brulard8 months ago
        No need to apologize, just wanted to let you know there is an issue.
  • graypegg8 months ago
    {"message":"Too many connections. Please try again later."} coming from the socket.io websocket. Good luck with the hug of death, and sorry for my spam clicking!
    • neural_thing8 months ago
      people wrote scripts to color everything one color, had to implement some limits, but I think should be good now
      • graypegg8 months ago
        Sadly that is unequivocally a very fun thing to do, and honestly I was considering trying it before I came and checked the HN thread haha
      • kragen8 months ago
        Maybe Anubis-style proof of work?
      • leoff8 months ago
        sorry about that and the merges! I'm stopping now :)

        that was a fun way to spend the past hours

        • graypegg8 months ago
          Was it you that was trying to get the German flag on there? If so, wow great job! Got a few screenshots!

          https://f.toi.sh/21juin-mmondrian.png

          • leoff8 months ago
            yes hahah did it twice, I think OP nuked it once

            it was a simple rule, if y < 1/3, black, if y < 2/3, ...

            • amy2148 months ago
              I went on there with my young child, and there was a german flag on there, just not the 2000s german flag, more like 1940s german flag.

              Really we need some common sense censorship on that site someone made for fun.

              • graypegg7 months ago
                > Really we need some common sense censorship on that site someone made for fun.

                neural_thing was really good about resetting if anything went awry. It's just 1 person's toy project they wanted to share. Set your expectations of investment at that level. Detecting swasticas + every other symbol that might taint the mind of your young child is a rather hard task, and yet you expect it to be done for free for you.

                I can give them a break for missing one case, and point the blame for that solely at the internet in general for trying to ruin a purely fun thing with hate.

                • amy2147 months ago
                  This is not just an issue of my child, for example, if a German user were to open that site in public, they would be found guilty of hate speech, amongst dozens of localities : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bans_on_Nazi_symbols. Also in California, where speech is free but is not free of consequences.

                  I don't make the rules here, I just don't want this guy to go to jail for his fun project.

        • neural_thing8 months ago
          No worries lol. Learning experience for me :)
  • dmwood8 months ago
    I like this very much. BUT: What I cannot save I do not remember (quoth the Old Guy). Any way to save these images as SVG. (Screen grabs are less satisfactory.)
    • neural_thing8 months ago
      I have a script that generates images every hour, will adapt it to let people save states!
  • dunham8 months ago
    I can't seem to pan, it would be nice if the zooming would zoom in to the mouse location. (I did manage to write HI near the left edge though.)
  • remram8 months ago
    Removing lines doesn't seem to work, it flashes out but then stays in.
    • ponsfrilus8 months ago
      Have to click on black lines. They can be moved too.
      • remram8 months ago
        I did, it flashes out, then it comes back in.
  • leoff8 months ago
    merging squares was the most satisfying part for me, but there is a bug sometimes when merging, the server refuses to do it even though it's valid
    • neural_thing8 months ago
      yeah - merging has been tricky to nail down, definitely the thing that's gone through the most iterations so far
      • leoff8 months ago
        I would love to know more about it! you should make a blog post
        • neural_thing8 months ago
          it's been a learning experience for sure, but my blog is really not a good place for a technical story like this. i'll think about where i might be able to post it
  • ggrelet8 months ago
    Is the website dead?
  • pimlottc8 months ago
    Misread this as MMOndain [0] and thought it was going to have to do with the Ultima games

    0: https://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Mondain

    • parpfish8 months ago
      I thought I was going to learn about the category of endofunctors