toys

a repo where i keep:

• a collection of weird little toys
• a bunch of creative coding tools / libs etc. that are helpful to me when making weird little toys

you can look at the toys here: https://alex.dytry.ch/toys

before i had this repo, i'd make a new one for each new weird little toy and waste a bunch of time on build setup and reimplementing all my standard tools / libs from scratch. this way is quicker. i think some of the tools here are more generally useful, but i probably won't publish them cus i'd rather focus my limited free time on actually making things with the tools.

wip notes & todos

• splatapus
  • [x] fix state splitting
  • [x] localstorage state
  • [x] reset document
  • [x] go to undo/redo location first
  • [x] pan/zoom
    • [x] basic pan
    • [x] reset pan/zoom
    • [x] basic zoom
    • [x] zoom at cursor location
    • [ ] fix zoom gesture zooming browser
    • [x] mobile pan/zoom support
  • [x] multi-dimensional
    • [x] keypoint tool
      • [x] tool boilerplate
      • [x] tap vs drag gesture detection
      • [x] select key points
      • [x] move key points
      • [x] add key points
    • [x] md-interpolation
      • [x] preview mode?
      • [x] quick preview tool
      • [x] TPS interpolation
      • [x] handle 1- and 2-point situations
  • [x] import/export
  • [x] (P0) introduce new "draw" -> "rig" -> "play" modes
    • [x] add basics
    • [x] restore mode as part of location
    • [x] drag-preview in rig mode
  • [x] (P0) fix up new drawing for unplaced point - extrapolation produces bad onion skins currently
  • [ ] optimize for quickly drawing multiple shapes
  • [ ] figure out proper workflow/right way to use the tool
  • [ ] new "stack of cards" ui for keyframes
  • [ ] a r t
    • [x] more shapes
      • [x] proper more shapes ui
    • [ ] (P1) colors
    • [ ] (P1) fills
  • [ ] fun
    • [ ] spring-interpolation
    • [ ] paint spring params on lines
  • [ ] animation
    • [ ] (P2) try density based point allocation instead of distance based
    • [ ] (P2) "pin" points on the line for animation consistency
    • [ ] turn around?
  • [x] design overhaul
  • [ ] login/share????
• blob factory
  • [x] blur mode
  • [ ] fix color hue blending
  • [ ] eased color blending
  • [x] experiment with noise?
  • [ ] save as image
  • [ ] import/export
  • [ ] light/dark mode
• octopus
  • [x] disable signals inspector in prod
  • [x] get tentacle retract motion feeling good
  • [x] make sure layout doesn't care about screen size
  • [x] render keyboard
  • [ ] clickable keyboard plays notes
  • [ ] get it working on ios
  • [ ] make touch controls work
  • [ ] click-and-drag keyboard plays notes
  • [x] keyboard-controlled keyboard plays notes
  • [ ] midi-controlled keyboard plays notes
  • [x] tentacles hit keyboard keys
  • [x] octopus tentacle rendering
  • [ ] octopus facial expressions basics
  • [ ] octopus singing mouth
  • [ ] octopus singing text trails
  • [ ] what happens when you touch somewhere other than the keyboard
  • [ ] hats?????
  • [ ] figure out other flavour / cool stuff to do with octopus face / tentacles etc
• signals
  • [ ] make signal midi bindings work when inspector isn't rendered
  • [x] ADSR-style signal envelopes
  • [ ] virtualized signal inspector list????