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HyunJun Jang's representation of what an archive could look like — the top half.
tdingsun's representation of what an archive could look like. It doesn't have the same visual aspect as HyunJun Jang's site, but you're able to see vital information regardless.
HyunJun Jang's representation of what an archive could look like — the top half.
It also has a nice animation (that changes its colour) to show that users that they're clicking on it or hovering on it.
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My prompt was "make a website where the user is inside a 3d room with a scrollable floating gallery in front of them". It didn't really work the way I wanted it to, looking generic and flat instead. Initially being told to use this, I was a bit hesistant to use this as I don't generally support AI—mainly due to the fact that it uses a huge amount of energy and land, leaving an even more harmful imprint towards the environment. Additionally, having to use an agent that may as well replace you in a year gets scary. I was skeptical, but I am glad I tried it out nonetheless. I was able to know what my competition's like, and what sets me further apart from it.
This was how I actually wanted the website to look like, with a scrollable, interactive gallery that the user could interact with through clicking on the buttons below. It would curve around the user's screen. I actually had put in a couple prompts in trying to make it look as similar to my drawing, but gave up when I realized that the limitations of Stitch stayed within using more static features.
My prompt was "make it a ascii hand reaching towards an ascii star". I purposefully made it a simple prompt as I didn't want to use over-complicated explanations that would've made the end-result a bit farther than what I would've initially wanted. As you can see, the hand ascii didn't really pan out the way I wanted it to, with it looking a bit unrecognizable towards the end.
This was how I actually wanted the website to look like, with a hand graphic (that's been dithered), reaching towards a star that sits in the middle, that would eventually lead to another page with all the projects inside. This experiment allowed me to understand what limitations AI had, and how creativity is still an asset that stays useful. Even though I was hoping it wouldn't make exactly what I wanted, I was still hoping that it would cut some corners and help me code out what I would've initially wanted. Irregardless, I admit that completely avoiding AI is unreasonable. It's being implemented into the workflows of a lot of companies, thus getting more normalized. With that, I'd have to get a bit more comfortable using it here and then, but I'd still want to learn through it.