davew, 6 days ago to random

An internet for writers

The next step in online social media will be group blogs that support the APIs needed to integrate with not only the Fediverse, but other non-AP services that have their own APIs.

Each one will have a theme, a voice, not all writers in agreement of course, but sharing a similar perspective, context, point of view.

toxi, 15 days ago to genart

Lace-like polygon fractals, created via recursive inward projection/folding of a seed shape (from 2011)...

#GenerativeArt #Geometry #Polygon #Recursion #Fractal #Lace

White on black line art of a recursively nested hexagon fractal
White on black line art of a recursively nested pentagon fractal
White on black line art of a recursively nested square fractal

hamoid, 20 days ago to genart

Last days I've been plotting more than ever :) For the upcoming Adela: Parameter Generative Arts Fair https://wiki.ljudmila.org/Adela:_Parameter #penPlotter #creativeCoding

jjimenezshaw, 29 days ago to programming

"If the authors of computer programming books wrote arithmetic textbooks..."

A colleague used this image to describe the documentation of a library. Meaning that the documentation was the example with the rabbits, but they have to use the library as the second part of the image.
#programming

knowuh, 28 days ago to random

Holy Moly. Scott Galloway is going to wake you up in his brutal talk on the US war on young people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E

toxi, 1 month ago to photography

Just been checking some of my fave webcams in the Alps for the aurora. Some highlights:

Konkordia (Jungfraujoch/Aletsch glacier):
https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/konkordiahuette/2024/05/11/0030

Zugspitze (w/ Höllental):
https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/zugspitze-ost/2024/05/11/0030

Zugspitze summit:
https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/bzb-gipfel/2024/05/11/0030

Nebelhorn:
https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/nebelhorn/2024/05/10/2230

All images by https://www.foto-webcam.eu

#Aurora #Photography #Webcam #Alps #Mountains

Nighttime view from the Zugspitze summit north over the dark Höllental and Garmisch-Partenkirchen with the entire scene tinted pink by the light of the aurora.
Nighttime view of the Zugspitze cablecar station near the summit with the entire scene tinted pink by the light of the aurora.
Nighttime view from the Nebelhorn summit over the still largely snow covered High Allgäu Alps (the ridge just north of Oytal) towards the Hochvogel pyramid. The entire scene tinted pink by the light of the aurora.

toxi, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to ZigLang

A little video preview of a section of the upcoming new thi.ng website:

https://makertube.net/w/hDfuEUudsjskRtdLhVeiVC
(edit: moved from YT to makertube)

It's so nice for me to see these 10 computational art pieces & experiments all in one place (and most of them interactive & randomizable), also in the knowledge that apart from using @vite for bundling, everything else is entirely made using https://thi.ng/umbrella packages and tooling (three of the pieces are also partially written in #Ziglang / #WASM). Unlike the video (which at 1080p is ~110MB), on the website these ten realtime evolving animations together are only a ~650KB download (i.e. ~0.55% filesize) and all of them are running fluidly even on my old iPhone 11! Thanks to using IntersectionObserver, only a single piece is active at any one time...

Another side effect from this exercise: All these projects are only a small selection from the past 3 years, but most of them haven't been updated in the last 1-2 years. There were breaking changes (esp. the Zig parts, which I still have to largely address), but most of the supposedly breaking changes in #ThingUmbrella packages were actually super easy to address. I'm only mentioning this, since it's great to sometimes be completely in a "normal" user's shoes and see how painful (or not!) some of these changes are/can be... I'm often losing a lot of time contemplating making wide-ranging (but IMHO better & needed) changes, but always also trying to consider the effects of those on other people... This anti-bitrot exercise absolutely helped me to vindicate this approach!

#ThingUmbrella #Website #Design #Art #GenerativeArt #Computational #FluidSim #CellularAutomata #Boids #PixelArt #Video #TypeScript #WebAssembly

twilliability, 1 month ago to random

Wave theory? A Sophon caught in the act? Another take on the sine wave theme. First time I've played with line strength.

#PenPlotter

SharonCummingsArt, 1 month ago to FIRE

Fire Water 6....Heating things up for Summer!

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/fire-water-on-white-6-art-sharon-cummings.html

#fire #art #artwork #orange #artist #artists #modernart #homedecor #interior #interiors #interiordesign #interiordecor #water #hot #heat #warm #warmth #sharoncummingsart #sharoncummings #mastoart #fediart

jeffjarvis, 1 month ago to random

Brilliant review of Jonathan Haidt's book and moral entrepreneurship by @mmasnick, who brings, as ever, reason & receipts. "Neither the data nor reality support his position, and neither should you. Kids and mental health is a very complex issue, and Haidt’s solution appears to be, in the words of H.L. Mencken: clear, simple, and wrong."
The Coddling of the American Parent https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-parent?source=twitter&via=desktop

paulrickards, 1 month ago to art

A pair of my favorite jeans developed a hole in the knee. This led to me to learning about #Sashiko, a beautiful art of visible mending. This inspired me to create this plotter design.

Inspiration is everywhere!

#PenPlotter #PenPlotterArt #MastoArt #Art #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding

sohan, 1 month ago to genart

𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜
Acrylic on paper, 15 x 22 in.
Set of sixteen.

#generativeart #plotterart #abstractart #creativecoding #p5js #axidraw #genartclub #mastoart #moire #worksonpaper

arstechnica, 1 month ago to random

Boston Dynamics debuts humanoid robot destined for commercialization

All-electric, 360-degree joints give the new Atlas plenty of inhuman movements.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/boston-dynamics-debuts-humanoid-robot-destined-for-commercialization/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

AaronReuland, 1 month ago to genart

Abstract art using a video feedback loop.
"critique".

Code at: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2241439

#abstractArt #creativeCoding #p5js #videofeedback #p5js

Light blue background. Noise lines and drooping ellipses appear and blur as they fade.

collinsworth, 1 month ago to random

I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.

We should be looking at what tech works when you don't have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale without paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.

There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.

paulrickards, 1 month ago to random

Another #VCFEast is in the books. This was my second time as an exhibitor showing my #PenPlotter art. It’s always so fun to see people be mesmerized by the plotter drawing intricate generative designs. For some, it’s the first time they’ve seen such a device.

josh, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to privacy

Does your public library use Overdrive/Libby for ebooks or audiobooks? ⚠️

In the US and Canada, the answer is probably yes. And you should speak to your library staff and commission about it.

Libby is now owned by a private equity firm & making sketchy changes: https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries/

The latest development is that their overbroad privacy policy allows them to sell your borrowing history to advertisers: https://infosec.exchange/@longobord/112243098104196246

Thank you @karawynn and @longobord!

#Privacy #Libraries

toxi, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to genart

Been slacking posting more art here, so time for a teensy selection of an old generative/evolutionary system from 2014 (then used for my HOLO 2 magazine guest design). Originally written in Clojure, meanwhile ported to TypeScript & Zig, I've kept working on & experimenting with it ever since... 1000s of screenshots and 100s of versions to sift through. Loosely based on research done by Barricelli[1] since the early 1950s, conceptually and aesthetically it sits nicely between my C-SCAPE and De/Frag and has a similarly huge design space to explore (in some versions coupled with genetic programming to evolve cell replication rules)... There's a 1500 word draft blog post from back then too, which goes into more detail and history of this approach. Maybe its time to publish that one too at last... :)

[1] https://www.tim-taylor.com/assets/docs/barricelli-suggestions-for-starting-theoretic-papers-6-6-1987.pdf

#STRATA #GenerativeArt #Art #Abstract #Pixel #Texture #Alife #Symbiosis #Barricelli #CellularAutomata #Simulation #NoAI

tca, 2 months ago to art

On a Rembrandt's self-portrait.

Enamel on nonwoven wallpaper (30x40cm).

Painting by a machine with human assistance.
#art #rembrandt #penplotter #brushplotter

mikebrondbjerg, 2 months ago to random

#WIP #linocut

mcc, 2 months ago to random

So you may have heard that a Boeing whistleblower died of what local police described as a "self-inflicted" gunshot wound right in the middle of his depositions, a timing which… well, lots of things happen, but if someone were going to act on suicidal impulses that is not the timing I would expect them to do it with.

Have you been wondering what exactly it was he was saying in those depositions? Cuz here's an American Prospect article largely based on his testimony:

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/

MatthewHughes, 2 months ago to generative

Refraction Ripples
#blender3d #loop #generative

video/mp4

nclslbrn, 2 months ago to random

A new version that uses a larger nib to draw shadows and save a bit of time #penplotter

autoeclectus, 2 months ago to genart

gm!

#generativeart #wip

ieure, 1 year ago to random

I'm going to start doing intermittent @mcc style "What I'm listening to today" type toots. I've really enjoyed her recommendations and writeups, and I want more of that kind of thing.