Lost in Love is a project by Bèr Kessels to create and share a unique maze for you and your love.
The maze is generated based on the names you provide. The maze is unique to you and your love, and can be shared with a unique URL.
Lost in Love is an art project. It is so called generative art: I write the software, and the software creates art autonomously.
A nice introduction into generative art is this talk by Tim Holman.
In a gallery in London, I came across gorgeaus screenprints by Ricky Byrne. I loved their use of color and hand-produced feel. Attention for color, layout, tension.
So I started experimenting with maze generation algorithms in Rust, with Nannou.
In the process, I decided to make it a web
6 Comments
gus_massa
I think the version with names https://love.berk.es/?me=Romeo&you=Juliet should be read only.
Perhaps use base64 or something to hide the names? I guess it offers no advantage, unreadable names makes it more magic.
wruza
Maybe add friendzone checkbox to generate dead end mazes.
Rikudou
Well, I'm glad my gf is not called Juliet, it would be a boring maze!
https://files.catbox.moe/xru330.jpg
Nice project, btw.
ericyd
The generated maze is pretty easy, but I think this project succeeds at being fun, whimsical, visually appealing, mobile-friendly, and (seemingly) fully functional. Nice work.
nico
Great work. Very fun to watch and surely a cute gift to give or send
Wish for next year: allow for bulk generation
A lot of kids have to make valentines cards/gifts for their whole class. It would be great for parents to be able to upload a spreadsheet with all the kids names and get an easy-to print pdf (the printed version could also have a short link and QR code)
croisillon
i was expecting this repost:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35800492 (May 2023, 117 comments)
you need a keyboard to play it