a-ha - Take On Me (Official Video) [4K]
Why Hacker News recommends it
It is mostly a cultural touchstone on HN, cited for its sketch animation style or the song itself rather than recommended as something to learn from.
What it is
The official remastered 4K video for a-ha's 1985 hit, famous for its rotoscoped pencil-sketch animation blending live action and comic-book drawings. It won six MTV Video Music Awards in 1986.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2014 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Cites muglug · 2014-08 · on “Implementing a "sketch" style of rendering in webGL”
Cool! It'd be awesome to see hatching that wasn't aligned to the particular planes, but rather the camera normal. That'd give it more of a "Take On Me" ( [this video] ) look.
Cites zaxomi · 2018-08 · on “Pop Songs Written by Native Speakers of Swedish”
Could it be "Take on me" with the Norwegian band "A-ha" from 1984? [this video] "Take on me" translated word for word will be "ta på meg" (Norwegian) or "ta på mig" (Swedish), meaning "touch me".
Cites adrianmonk · 2018-09 · on “E-Ink Monitors: Ready for Prime Time?”
Tangentially, the article shows video playing through eInk, and its choppy yet paper-like effect really reminds me of the animation style of the 1980s music video "Take On Me" by the band a-ha: [this video] I'm not sure if I'd be able to use one of these monitors without constantly thinking of that video.
Cites sundvor · 2021-07 · on “Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley reaches one billion views [video]”
Wow, Take On Me doesn't even hit that list. [this video] Maybe it's because it's the 4k remaster, only out for 11 years? Nonetheless, it's got a couple of hundred views from this household - but tuning more into the acoustic one now which is a masterpiece - and was also featured in Deadpool 2 (sadly not prominently in the Disney Plus version). [LINK] Sorry a bit OT; it's kind of my lullaby for getting daughter to sleep, (trying to) sing along with Morten.
Cites DonHopkins · 2021-11 · on “Show HN: Use your iPhone's camera to see any photo on your wall”
Great job! My ultimate (and totally unrealistic) wish list: Multitouch dragging and resizing and rotating and pushing and pulling images. Really cool if it works seamlessly with camera motion and rotation too. So you can correct the size and depth of misplaced pictures easily. (The dragging gesture currently does, hurrya! Now "just" make the resizing and twisting and pulling and pushing gestures work that way by following camera motion too! Yes it's tricky code but it'll be worth it and satisfying.) Bump the edges of dragging and resizing pictures up against the corners of the room. And when picture edges bump together they push each other around, with 2d physics (or use 3d physics with grav