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Posted by mrroryflint 8 hours ago

Show HN: Eyeball(eyeball.rory.codes)
153 points | 54 comments
p2hari 2 minutes ago|
My best on first attempt was 0.00% (Pure coincidence) . But was fun!
MontyCarloHall 2 hours ago||
A modern take on Matthias Wandel's classic [0], which has you guess a variety of geometric attributes (e.g. angle bisection, centroid locating, shape regularization), not just simple partitioning of a line.

[0] https://woodgears.ca/eyeball/index.html

kerblang 16 minutes ago||
Oh that version actually made sense.

Going back to our newer game, I realized that I am supposed to figure out where the number given should fall on the line.

A case study in modern useability - looks a lot cooler, can't figure it out.

stronglikedan 2 hours ago|||
This is great. If only the little square tool would disappear while I make adjustments though - it's just enough of a distraction to barely miss.
mrroryflint 2 hours ago||
Oh wow - that is very cool. Thanks for sharing.
harrisi 1 hour ago||
Just want to say thank you for sharing your project. Very fun, and I wouldn't know about Matthias Wandel's version if not for yours!

Also, both of these tickled my brain in a great way. I think a potentially fun continuation would be to "eyeball" physics. For example, throw a ball and pause the physics before it hits something (ground, object, who knows?) and guess the location. Or show two objects about to collide with certain shapes and masses and guess what one of them will hit first and where.

forlorn_mammoth 4 hours ago||
Love it!

It would be great to have a 'training' mode, where you get to repeat ones you miss. This would increase the learning speed.

Easy training- repeat the one you just borked Medium training- cycles through say 5 examples until you get all five within your target range (1%, 0.1%, whatever)

mrroryflint 4 hours ago|
Cool idea - thanks! I'm building a mobile app as we speak so I'll add it for sure.
davidcollantes 3 hours ago||
I was 0.06% off on eyeball. Beat me: https://eyeball.rory.codes.

This is fun!

pelagicAustral 2 hours ago||
> perfect - you picked 0 · off by 1 (0.03%)
layer8 2 hours ago|||
0.10%, but on a touch screen.
tgamma 59 minutes ago||
I was 0.00% off on eyeball. Beat me: https://eyeball.rory.codes

Lucky punch, on a touch screen!

Theodores 3 hours ago||
Almost: 0.07%, allegedly 'perfect'. Getting an early win makes the game so much more 'playable'.
stavros 2 hours ago||
Why does an early win matter? Isn't it random?
densekernel 1 hour ago||
https://eyeball.rory.codes/ I was 0.20% off on eyeball. Beat me: https://eyeball.rory.codes
pravj 57 minutes ago||
I reached 0.05% and retired for the day.

https://postimg.cc/MXBQqrXf

harrisi 56 minutes ago||
It's interesting that there are, at the time I'm commenting, 11 new users commenting on this submission, some commenting multiple times. I wonder what the effect of "share my score" type pages have on account creation.
hazelnut 31 minutes ago|
yes, was thinking the same. but it's also weird that the amount of new users commenting is so much higher here. wonder if that is just not a coincidence.
Mabusto 56 minutes ago||
I love these simple games that take 2 seconds to understand the rules.

Off by 6 on my iPad by mis-clicking. Very satisfying!

mrroryflint 23 minutes ago|
Thank you!
layer8 2 hours ago||
The fact that the numbers are in a brighter color than the end marks, and that the numbers go inwards, makes it slightly more difficult than it would otherwise be, because the eye is biased by the more prominent space between the numbers being different from the line between the marks.
wolttam 1 hour ago|
The low contrast of this website hurts my eyeball
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