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toxi

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng

Interdisciplinary open so(u)rcery, computational art/craft/design, landscape photography, electronic music, education. See pinned toots for more info!

Unless stated otherwise, all published images/media (except boosts/linked content) is my own work & copyright by me.

Available for consulting/commissions. Searchable.

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#ThingUmbrella #ComputationalDesign #GenerativeArt #LandscapePhotography #TypeScript #ZigLang #WebAssembly #Clojure #Forth #GLSL #Houdini #DigitalFabrication #Geometry #CellularAutomata #EvolutionaryComputing #PermaComputing #AxiDraw #DemoScene #DSP #Synth #Music4Coding #Hiking #Nature

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toxi, to genart
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Linear Memory. More WIP, more params & mapping out the terrain...

#LinearMemory #RingBuffer #GenerativeArt #Art #Color #Texture #Pixel #MemoryMapping #Complexity #Emergence #NoAI

Colorful & complex pattern of semi-random, multi-scale pixel patterns (32 layers).
Colorful & complex pattern of semi-random, multi-scale pixel patterns (32 layers).
Colorful & complex pattern of semi-random, multi-scale pixel patterns (32 layers).

toxi, to photography
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Golden carpet event. Near the start of yesterday's hike in one of our favorite valleys...

toxi, (edited ) to generative
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Linear Memory (WIP), variations on a theme... exploring the terrain. Impressed by the resulting complexity, considering the simplicity of the system/setup...

(edit: update tags for organizing)

toxi,
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@mtchl Thank you, Mitchell! More to come...

toxi, (edited ) to genart
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Linear Memory (WIP). Experimenting with evolving parametric, ringbuffer-based, multi-scale pixel patterns/textures and compositing them...

(edit: update tags for organizing)

toxi, to photography
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Pictures from last night's evening/sunset hike to a 400m tall waterfall at the end of the valley, celebrating several family events/milestones/anniversaries... Felt like we had the whole valley to ourselves (...and the birdies, and hares and bambies on the way)

A group of trees in a mountain meadow with spring flowers, next to a stony river bed. In the background, big, still largely snow covered mountains. Steel gray, cloudy sky with the last evening sun
View across a wild, rushing, whitewater mountain creek, looking up steep & rocky mountain slopes with sparse patches of trees, grass and snow fields. Branches of low growth pine in the foreground. Gray cloudy sky with the last sun trying to break through.
View of the vertical main section of the imposing Bergaicht waterfall (~400m) seen from the lower parts where due to the intense flow from the current snow melt a network of creeks is forming and flooding the meadows.

toxi, to opensource
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Some quick notes about #ThingUmbrella weekend updates:

  1. Been doing heavy work on improving/updating the return types of various polymorphic shape operators in https://thi.ng/geom — this work will soon trigger another major version update. Also been using the opportunity to add many more 3D versions of various shapes types (incl. groups & paths) and main bottleneck now is to properly document and test the various implicit shape type conversions which might happen going from A→B. For example, applying an arbitrary transformation matrix to a circle implictly converts the circle into a path of cubic segments. Likewise, rotating a (axis-aligned) rectangle, results in a freeform quad/polygon, etc. There're dozens of such cases and dozens of operators to consider & update, but I'm guessing I'm ~50-66% done already (minus tests)...

  2. This next thi.ng/geom update will also update the polygon → cubic bezier conversions to (optionally) support John Hobby's control point placements, aka "Hobby curves" (aka The Most Friendliest Looking Splines™), both for closed & open geometries. A new example will be included...

  3. If you ever had some questions about the inner workings of https://thi.ng/rdom's $klist (aka keyed list) component wrapper, you might find my answer to @arnaudcys's issue helpful:

https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/issues/466#issuecomment-2109871090

  1. Finally, I'm extremely grateful to those of you supporting my #OpenSource work financially! 🙏😍 I'm still a far cry from making this effort sustainable, but everything helps! Also — I don't do this often — if you'd like to contribute and become a sponsor yourself, please head over to:

https://github.com/sponsors/postspectacular/ (preferred)

or

https://www.patreon.com/thing_umbrella

Thank you for your support/consideration! :)

hikingdude, to blogging
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I almost finished my blog post about last week's hike yesterday but couldn't agree on a title. Now it's done:

https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2024/springtime-in-alpine-meadows/

You probably know the already - but I added a bit of a text as well. Btw do you think it could be more text? I always fear that a lot of text isn't ready anyways and ppl probably prefer videos.
(I mean - I also like videos with good voice and no text.. why shouldn't you do as well)

Enjoy!

toxi,
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@hikingdude Schöne pics & ihr seid also rauf zum Königsstand? :) ...das wäre dann aber auch der Wetterstein und nicht das Karwendel im Hintergrund gewesen, oder? :) Btw. Die Reschbergwiesen bei der Diessener Hütte sind auch eine unserer Lieblinge für ein Sommerabend Picnic mit toller Aussicht... 🤌

toxi,
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@mxk @hikingdude Oh, sorry, nicht vorher gesehen! Dann wart ihr ja auch genau gegenüber von den Kuhfluchtwasserfällen...

memerman, to hiking
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toxi,
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@memerman Stunning & pretty much sums up PNW in a single shot (in my memories at least!)

toxi, to photography
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Favorite Giant.

#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #Alps #Dolomites #Langkofel #Hiking

toxi, to photography
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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

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,
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@SomeAnoTooter Ja, ist auch mein Favorit unter den Webcams! :) Kleiner Tipp: * Taste für die besten Bilder der letzen Jahre (der aktuell ausgewählten Kamera)

toxi,
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@MishaVanMollusq I'm a daily visitor, part of my morning routine... :)

andrewbriscoe, to HikingPics
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Pacific Crest Trail: Part 1

Mount Hood looks stunning from up here on Table Mountain. I was informed by a frankly terrified-looking day hiker that black bears were seen up here last night. I’m proceeding with caution and will update you if I encounter them. 🐻🗻☀️

#Backpacking #PNW #WashingtonState #Photography #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Outdoors #LandscapePhotography

toxi,
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@andrewbriscoe Never forget coming down from an hike at Mt. St Helens via Carson and driving back to PDX straight into the golden sunset for an hour, stopping at Cape Horn for the view back... One of my fave memories of the gorge!

toxi,
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@andrewbriscoe Very much so! Thanks for sharing your images/experiences...

toxi, to random
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Evening walk. Supposedly commemorating the end of a horrible war almost 80 years ago, but more commiserating how just no lessons were learned...

"History teaches, but it has no pupils."
(yet another great Antonio Gramsci quote)

toxi, to photography
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Colors of death.

(Picture taken today 7 years ago, Arcadia Beach, Oregon.)

toxi, to opensource
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#ThingUmbrella #ReleaseThursday 🚀 Some new exciting major upgrades with important features & fixes to the following packages:

https://thi.ng/geom — v7 is adding support for polygons with holes, paths with sub-paths (i.e. holes or multiple curves) as new/updated shape types and adding & updating 20+ of the polymorphic shape operators, predicates, conversion & sampling functions...

Full changelog:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/blob/develop/packages/geom/CHANGELOG.md

https://thi.ng/hiccup-canvas — v3 fixes a long standing issue with drawing paths with holes and/or containing SVG-compatible elliptic arc segments, both of which are now fully supported (in addition to circular arcs, which are only available for the canvas API)

Relevant section in the readme:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/blob/develop/packages/hiccup-canvas/README.md#path

Full changelog:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/blob/develop/packages/hiccup-canvas/CHANGELOG.md

As mentioned in other recent messages, the thi.ng/geom changes also have triggered updates and feature support in other related packages, e.g. http://thi.ng/geom-axidraw, https://thi.ng/geom-sdf. There're also new/updated examples... (See recent toots & package readmes for links)

Happy coding! :)

#ThingUmbrella #Geometry #SVG #Canvas #Visualization #OpenSource #TypeScript #JavaScript

toxi, to random
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Just updated the convex hull example (and the underlying clipConvex() function in https://thi.ng/geom) to support paths (shown in the examples) and complex polygons...

Demo:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/geom-convex-hull/

Source:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/blob/develop/examples/geom-convex-hull/src/index.ts

#ThingUmbrella #Geometry #ConvexHull #Polygons

Animated GIF showing multiple random variations of the linked example, each frame showing two overlapping polygons and the computed region of overlap highlighted...

toxi, (edited ) to typescript
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New demo (and last new test case) for the upcoming https://thi.ng/geom release (and related packages): Here parsing a SVG path, converting to an SDF, deforming the SDF and sampling/converting the SDF back into SVG at multiple contour levels... all in just a few lines of code!

Demo:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/geom-sdf-path/

Source:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/blob/develop/examples/geom-sdf-path/src/index.ts

(Ps. I will add more comments to the example tomorrow...✌️)

toxi, to random
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Absolutely wonderful, varied, mellow, calm, deep & uplifting mix by Irina Kotik (one half of Moon Patrol / Delayed) — a real journey through different sonic landscapes (as mixes should be!)

Crescent Textures
https://soundcloud.com/crescent-london/crescent-textures-95-irina-kotik

toxi, to photography
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The Abstract Towers of Sella, Dolomites.

toxi,
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@mothninja Thank you! One of my fave and most surreal places in Europe (the whole Sella massif)...

toxi, to random
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"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” — Antonio Gramsci

Can't stop thinking about how true this quote rings these days, on all levels from global to deeply personal... (Happy 7*7 to me!)

toxi,
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@robertoranon Thank you very much! Desperate times... Personally, I'm trying my best to use this looming darkness as catalyst for the opposite (in my own small ways). Be the change you want (need!) to be, maybe never mattered more in recent years... Most of the people (😍) & conversations (🤩) here (even the ones I'm just lurking in) have been very helpful in this respect! I don't believe in "the future is bright" anymore, but it's up to each of us to "keep the light on" and build/adapt different approaches (incl. to our art making)

toxi, to photography
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Redwood State Park near Klamath, where tree trunks are the width of the road...

#ThickTrunkThursday #NaturePhotography #Photography #Redwood #California

toxi,
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@nclslbrn Thank you for this recommendation. Very good documentary! We watched it yesterday and the extent is pretty shocking...

(Btw. For others reading this: There're english subtitles available...)

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