I made a simple Pure Data patch (adc > delay > dac) that simulates this effect, and I can confirm that it works well.

I have a VoIP phone that performs this function for free. It's very annoying ...

Yes, but it looks like it's invite only right now?

You just need to sign up 3 email addresses from your invite link. Nothing stops you from doing that with 3 of your own addresses.

Is there any way to play this on a Macbook trackpad without connecting a USB mouse?

??? My macbook pro has distinct left- and right-click regions on the touch pad. It was still hard to do though without a mouse.

The easiest way I found was to just move the cursor where you want the ball to go, then right click. Repeat.

Ctrl-Click == right-click.

On the multi-touch trackpad you can just click with two fingers.

To elaborate, I got it to work this way:

  * Hold two fingers on middle of track pad
  * Click thumb on bottom of track pad; katamari should start to move at this point
  * Release two fingers on middle of track pad
  * Use single finger to move cursor while still holding down thumb

Oh awesome, that worked beautifully. Thank you!

I tried that, but it works too slowly to continually press with two fingers next to the ball.

I meant is there a way to change the javascript to use a different button?

I can add that once we get the server back to a reasonable speed.

A Macbook user here as well. To try it out, I forked seancron's repository and changed the right mouse button to left mouse button. You have to avoid clicking on links, though.

  javascript:var i,s,ss=['https://github.com/anttisykari/kathack/raw/master/kh.js','http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js'];for(i=0;i!=ss.length;i++){s=document.createElement('script');s.src=ss[i];document.body.appendChild(s);}void(0);

move the mouse to wear you want the ball to move, then hold down right click.

On another note, wouldn't it make sense for Nintendo to pull a Sony at this point and create a Nintendo store for Android? In a year or so a good amount of Android phones will have glasses free 3D.

This looks insanely cool, but it won't render for me. I'm running the newest version of Chrome on Snow Leopard which is supposed to support WebGL, other examples work fine, but I'm just getting a checkered background.

I hate to ask, but did you actually click "Render"? Just clearing away the text that is in the middle when you first load it has exactly that result if you don't click "Render", which is why I ask. It was also non-obvious to me that when I changed fractal types, I had to click "Recompile"; everything else updated live, so I expected that to as well.

Works in Firefox 4. The RC arrives this week. It's finally done.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta

I like this idea, I'll be doing this. Also are prices like $1, or $2 better than $.99 and $1.99, or does it not matter?

I do not know any solid answers from research for this questions. Half the things you read say that '.99' makes some people interpret the price as being lower than it really is while the other half of research says that people interpret as being an underhanded tactic.

Personally, I prefer flat dollar prices. I'm much happier with $25.00/mo as opposed to $24.95 or $24.99/mo. I read them all as "$25" anyway and I prefer nice round numbers.

ymmv.

Like robflynn said, this depends on each person, it can be positive or negative.

In my case I would go with a flat price ($1 or $2) or perhaps a flat price with a little more like $1.20 or $2.40. This seems like it isn't a random price.

Both. For instance, on a lot of the YC and newer startups (I can't really cite them from memory) you see these really nice background patterns on landing pages, however, I have no idea how they are made. I have very little formal training as far as graphic design is concerned, so while I might be able to make a pretty logo following a tutorial I'm afraid the fundamental structure of the page will be bad.

Someone on this thread recommended a book called Design Elements, and it's great and just what I needed actually.

So, I think reading about design is a great way for you to learn the basics and principles (I highly recommend The Non Designers Design Book).

Once you read that, then I would suggest to start reading some well known web magazines, maybe like Smashing or VecTuts/PSDTuts to go through some tutorials and help you understand just how people use noise on a button, or a drop shadow on a button, etc. Then again, I think these things are sometimes over the top and used because it's trendy. But, you can make your own decisions.

A lot of people just use Photoshop patterns made by someone else for those background images (http://patterns.ava7.com/tag-beige.php,http://designm.ag/res...). Find a pattern, fill > pattern, tada!

I just got this and it's phenomenal. This is exactly what I needed, thank you so much.

I don't know, I find it (whatever it may be) to be refreshingly honest.

Does anybody know how to use this with Processing?

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the parent link in question (though I didn't submit it).

I started with https://github.com/Sensebloom/OSCeleton to connect to Processing, I modified one of these examples: https://github.com/Sensebloom/OSCeleton-examples and it worked well. Couldn't see how to connect to OSC to Scratch, so I modified the OSC example to send Scratch variable updates. I can email you Processing code if you pm me an email.

Sorry, I can't seem to find how to PM you in HN, however I would love to see the code.

My email is eschros@gmail.com

Thanks so much!