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trianglify
JavaScript2014–2022
qrohlf / trianglify

trianglify

Algorithmically generated triangle art

4Distinct people
9Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
10.1KGitHub stars
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What it is

Algorithmically generated triangle art

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-04-12 15:49:59 UTC to 2022-09-18 15:34:21 UTC.

01232014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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This was inspired by Quinn's library here: https://github.com/qrohlf/trianglify/ I built it into a cross-platform app and added some extra features. Builds can be found on the GitHub releases section, and for most linux distributions it can be found on the Linux Snap Store! Mac support is not here yet because I do not own a mac, but if you have one and have JS/Electron experience, I would love for you to clone and test it out.
In Show HN: Generate pleasing triangular wallpapers, change wallpaper on a schedule
SEEKING WORK - Denver/Boulder, CO or Remote I build data-intensive frontend applications with an emphasis on great UX and excellent performance. Lately, I've been doing a lot of web mapping work (both Leaflet and Mapbox-gl). I am the author and maintainer of several open-source projects, including the popular Trianglify visualization library [1]. I can help you build a green-field application, adapt your legacy Rails app to a modern frontend, build a microservice for scaling your image generation pipeline, or anything else that relates to the modern web platform. I've completed projects matching all of the above descriptions in the past year. --- Technologies: React, Ruby/RoR, Postgres, Node, Vanilla JS, D3/Dataviz Email: qr@qrohlf.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/qrohlf/ [1] https://github.com/qrohlf/trianglify
In Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2020)
I have been in an interesting similar situation with my Trianglify [1] library, and have made money off of it a few different ways: - Commercial licensing (the library is GPL) occasionally gets me a few bucks, but isn't a reliable source of income. - Consulting on custom integrations/tweaks has been slightly better, but in general it's a simple library that's well documented and easy to use, so there isn't much need for this. It became pretty obvious after I launched the project that my primary audience wasn't developers who could consume a JS library, it was designers. I wound up building a productized UI [2], and I've been experimenting with - making money via donations (abysmal) - ethical non-tracking advertising (low conversion rate, people hit the tool to accomplish a task, not click ads) - and lately, paid functionality (so far, thi
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s has been the most successful approach) I think that the skillset for developing a good and useful piece of OSS and the skillset for monetizing it are almost completely orthogonal - it would be really great if there was a way to make decent income off an open-source project without building a flashy website, learning basic marketing, getting in bed with advertising companies, etc etc. Unfortunately, the above seems to be what the market cares about. [1] https://github.com/qrohlf/trianglify [2] https://trianglify.io
In GitHub stars won’t pay your rent
You can use any color palette you want! The whole thing is packaged up as a drop-in javascript library. Check out the x_gradient and y_gradient config options: https://github.com/qrohlf/trianglify#options As for tiling, it's definitely possible but it wouldn't look very good with the gradient palettes - you'd have to use a randomized palette for the tiling to look natural. I'm probably not going to make those changes, but feel free to send a pull request!
In Show HN: Trianglify – low poly style background generator with D3.js

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