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"Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig to animate layout

35 pointsby zhxiaolianglast Wednesday at 10:17 AM10 commentsview on HN

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mulhoontoday at 7:38 AM

Nice work! Haven’t seen anything like this before. It makes me happy that people do stuff like this. Small experiments often open up big new design ideas.

ikutoday at 5:48 AM

I have no idea what this is about. I see no stick figure or anything interactive, when I open this on my iPhone. I’d does say Idle below the reset button though. To make things worse, if you scroll down, you can’t scroll back to page top. I assume the main area intercepts the touch events, blocking scrolling…

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kfarrtoday at 6:11 AM

Context: this is a demo of a deterministic layout calculation library https://github.com/cosmiciron/layoutmaster#dancing-text (not affiliated, I was just confused so saving you a click)

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zhxiaolianglast Wednesday at 10:18 AM

You can use primitive exclusion assemblies to create a rig and programmatically control it to animate a layout in Layoutmaster.