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My student has released 文言, or wenyan, an esoteric programming language that closely follows the grammar and tone of classical Chinese literature. There's an online IDE, and it compiles to JS or Python. Github: github.com/LingDong-/weny Site: wenyan-lang.lingdong.works
Newly discovered Scarry book about Lowly Worm features a revealing look at his underpant (cc
HOT NEWS!! "Code as Creative Medium" by & — featuring creative coding exercises and assignments collected from across our community — is now out! If you teach computational new media art and design, we made this for you! 😊📘🎨🤖🎉 mitpress.mit.edu/books/code-cre
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Dear : As you advertise the authenticity of Warhol's "five original drawings" on the NFT blockchain, I'm concerned that your collectors might be confused about what they're bidding on—since you're not auctioning the originals, which were created at 320x200.
I may be an ass, but I am no longer an Ass. Professor. Huge thanks to everyone who supported me. Time to give back.
Thrilled to share this glimpse of the just-approved cover of +my forthcoming book, with breathtaking art by the amazing Manolo Gamboa Naon, and incredibly kind endorsements by , , and
Just putting this here for safekeeping. "Formula for Computer Art" (2000), by Jim Campbell. giphy.com/gifs/formula-m
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When we presented these Warhol Amiga works in 's 30th anniversary exhibition (2019), per contract with , we compromised: we displayed unscaled 320x200 PNGs, served from a modern PC, via analog composite video, on an authentic 1985 Amiga monitor.
Hi friends, here's a hopefully fun thread: What are your favorite browser-based creative arts tools/playthings that use AI or Machine Learning? Let's make a list, I'll kick it off. Please respond below! #MachineLearning #Art #Tools
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I'm legit curious whether anyone at stopped to wonder how Warhol could make a 6000x4500-pixel image in 1985. Did they think, "that's odd"? or "27MP, wow, he was way ahead of his time"? or "whatever; collectors expect hi-res from blue-chip art"? or just "ZOMG NFT$$"
In order to make a generative drawing, you must first make the generative paper to draw it on.
Thrilled to announce Terrapattern, a visual search engine for satellite imagery! terrapattern.com
Hello friends: I bring a tiny shard of something good during dark times. My student has created pedagogic & wrappers for the #MediaPipe hand tracker, including multiplayer demos on : github.com/LingDong-/hand
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Generative plots by @CMUSchoolofArt + undergraduates in my #PlotterTwitter "Drawing with Machines" course at . The prompt here was to write code to create a family of (hatched) blobs. Works shown by Sarah Di, , Jean Cho, & .
If you enjoy typography, computation, RNNs, & Chinese characters, check out the "Recursive Radical Packing Language" developed by my student Lingdong Huang.
Github: github.com/LingDong-/rrpl
Interactive apps : chinese-radical-vis.glitch.me
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Google has just released high-quality 3D face-tracking and hand pose tracking in the browser, with . blog.tensorflow.org/2020/03/face-a
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Here is a brief thread about large-run printed books with generative cover designs. (For the purposes of this repository, "generative" means each copy is unique, and "large run" means I'm not considering print-on-demand. Thanks to everyone who sent links.)
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It should be clear that a 6000x4500 image in Amiga's uncompressed .PIC format could not possibly fit on a 1.4MB floppy, nor in the Amiga 1000's 512kb RAM. I'm not sure if your collectors care that they're bidding on a secondary by-product, but I would.
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Cultural institutions, galleries and publishers constantly think that "high resolution" means "best-quality" or "original". This totally fails for low-resolution originals, such as the actual originals of the Warhol Amiga drawings, which were created at 320x200.
just fixed a bug in my code from 1997. half a lifetime ago. this turd has been bothering me for 24 years
In creative coding news, presents "Wax": a tiny language that easily transpiles to C, Java, TypeScript, and other languages. Write your algorithm in Wax; the code it generates will work in (e.g.) , , and . github.com/LingDong-/wax
"Iterative Pattern" (generative wallpaper) projects created by first-year BFA undergraduates in my introductory new-media course at @CMUSchoolofArt. Made with .
My students & created a subtle gestural instrument for interactively navigating the latent space of bigGAN imagery. Developed at , XOROMANCY uses sensors and abuses GPU hardware kindly donated by :
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第72回全日本フェンシング選手権大会にて採用された、AR技術を用いて剣先の軌跡を可視化する基幹技術「Points of a sword visualization system」をライゾマティクスが開発しています。
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Amazing. Undersea cables are all sheathing; the internet runs on just 3 strands of fiber optics. pic.twitter.com/KP1Lw9E7ei via
Brilliant creative technologist has passed away after several years of health issues and homelessness. Please take a moment to enjoy her influential work. jtnimoy.net
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Delighted to announce that #PEmbroider, 's library for computational embroidery in , is now public! Huge gratitude to , , and our cohort of generous beta-testers for all their work.
I’m prepping for my fall “Drawing with Machines” course, and I have never been quite so humbled as by this amazing book by . “Computational Drawing” is required reading for new-media arts educators teaching #plottertwitter & material.
If you're interested in writing code to create seamless GIF loops, I've made some templates (in , , and ) for doing so:
Currently prepping a 1985 Amiga CRT to 'authentically' display born-digital paintings by Andy Warhol—discovered languishing on old floppies in 2014 at by & , with support from .
Thrilled to announce that has received a $100K grant from the to support the development and maintenance of open-source software tools for the arts! arts.gov/sites/default/ #OSSTA
The only reason the EBS Handjet costs $7K is to keep it out of the hands of artists
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I'm surprised this isn't done more. Panoramic painting on sphere. #ExCap
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Flatball 2019 No.01 (2019)
φ170mm
Acrylic paint,acrylic resin
手で回転させる動画も撮ってみました。
#鮫島大輔 #daisukesamejima #art #artist #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #landscapepainting #painting #sphere #visualart #絵画 #アート #現代アート #現代美術
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I'm just blown away by the amazing performance, features, and easy integration of handsfree.js by @Metamoar (built on TensorFlow & MediaPipe)—with multiple face, hand, & body tracking at 20-60fps in . Here's my example project for tomorrow's class: editor.p5js.org/golan/sketches
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., let's try this again: give me an unfiltered, chronological feed with no ads; I'll give you $5.99/year. Now STFU and bill me.
Friends, it's my final week as Director of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for . It's been an immense privilege to shepherd this remarkable Third Space for the past 14 years—an improbability incubator and creativity cocoon for an amazing community of hybrids and oddkins.
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"Code as Creative Medium", my new book co-authored with , is currently #1 in Amazon's tiny but competitive "Digital Art" category — thanks everyone! mitpress.mit.edu/books/code-cre
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The versions you're auctioning—with dimensions of 6000x4500—are altered, 2nd-generation near-copies. Specifically, these were upscaled from the originals by per the specific request of , because the Foundation explicitly wanted the artworks "in high resolution".
My students have the assignment of generating an animated GIF loop (with or code). For anyone interested, here's my background lecture: github.com/golanlevin/lec
DEAR , NOW THAT U HAVE #STICKERS AND A #MAGICPONY, COULD U PLEASE GIVE US SOME CUTE TOOLS TO MANAGE YOUR #HARASSMENT DUMPSTER FIRE
Dear tweeps: who are some amazing individuals (not collectives, this time) working on their own, small, open-source software-development tools for the arts? (Especially looking for persons from underrepresented backgrounds in software dev, but all recommendations welcome!)
In recognition of #PixelArtDay, I volunteer that my first job (~1990-1994) was designing thousands of icons for an experimental video annotation system called Media Streams, by . Here are some of them.
Delighted to announce that my interactive artwork Yellowtail (1998) is now a collectible interactive SVG at @hicetnunc2000 — the ultra-low-carbon, punk-rock NFT bazaar: hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/9954. (Big thanks to for the template!)
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hey everyone stay tuned for the Art && Code WEIRD NICHE SUMMER CAMP WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS
Adobe Flash is officially dead, but we loved it. We’ve built an open-source Flash alternative called Wick.
But also: my focus in this particular work is dynamism and interactivity—i.e., the 'medium of response'—not 'colors and light'. To me, this makes it as 'born digital' as anything. The nod to paper helps tell a story, but is not the point.
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I'm Director of the lab at , which collaborated with & in discovering the works. You can read about our recovery process here: studioforcreativeinquiry.org/project/warhol and especially in this detailed report: studioforcreativeinquiry.org/pdf/warhol_ami.
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Best explanation I've seen of volts, amps, and ohms.
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Hi friends! If you (1) enjoy creative coding in , (2) have access to a computer-controlled embroidery machine, and (3) would like early access to our library, could you kindly reply to this tweet? (& which model do you have?) We're looking for beta-testers!
In 1995 my life changed when I encountered The Pocket Handbook of Image Processing Algorithms in C by Myler+Weeks (adaptiveart.eecs.umich.edu/2011/wp-conten). Over the years I've gifted a few copies to #oddkin, one of whom, , has ported the book to :
Dear creative technology friends & educators: do you have any favorite quotes about working with code as a creative medium? (cc , ). For example: I'll start with this nice one by in .
I'm delighted to announce the release of "Bluetail" (1998), —a *previously unpublished* cousin of my "Yellowtail" scribbleware!—as an interactive NFT at @hicetnunc2000: hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/17307
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For a class demo, I took a script written by ChatGPT, had WellSaid narrate it, and used that audio to puppeteer a Midjourney character using one-shot-talking-face. My entire family intervened and told me in no uncertain terms that it was the worst thing I've ever made.😳
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It gets hairier than this. Warhol's Amiga images were created with *non-square pixels* (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_asp), with a roughly 0.9 (H:W) aspect ratio. To view these properly today, should these be upscaled in the file itself, or at the final stage of rendering to the screen?
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Andy Warhol developed his artworks on an Amiga at 320x200 resolution, because that was the size of graphics framebuffers at the time.
I made this program, which generates a GIF with looping 1D noise, to help explain 's excellent article: gist.github.com/golanlevin/46a
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Leaving aside the nature of NFTs for the moment (a hash of a signature of a transaction etc.), what would an original be? Warhol's digital art was saved in a pre-release version of an obsolete Amiga file format, PLBM. Is it OK to convert this to a more easily-readable PNG?
My students completed their computationally-generated GIF loops this past Friday, here's a gallery of their projects: cmuems.com/2018/60212f/de
A DIY, Open-Source Hardware ventilator / mechanical respirator / breathing machine — is better than none at all. This group is sharing CAD files for equipment that can be fabricated in emergency conditions. facebook.com/groups/6709322 #OSHW
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Drawing with Machines
Fall 2021, 12 Units
This is an advanced studio course in experimental drawing, generative art, computational design, and mechatronic mishegas. Working at the boundaries of code, automation, physical materials, and gestural mark-making, we will explore /
This is ace
Dear educators of new media arts & design! Are you about to make your syllabus? Yeah we know you are. Let us save you some time! & I wrote a book just for you, full of example exercises and assignments 🥰 mitpress.mit.edu/books/code-cre
This is bonkers // #ExCap
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The most detailed model of a human cell to date, obtained using x-rays, nuclear magnetic resonance, and cryoelectron microscopy data sets.
Source: Transformation of the Cellular Landscape through a Eukaryotic Cell, by Ingersoll, McGill ~ Digizyme's Custom Maya Molecular Software
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"Code as Creative Medium" features a foreword by ; interviews with & ; and computational book design by & !
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It can't be emphasized enough that is an utterly world class designer-educator, and her beautifully animated new explainer, "The Continuity of Splines"—after more than a year's work—sets a new standard for visual math education.
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Friends, what are some examples of collectively-created objects? For example, a cairn:
Sign up! Emerging voices, marginalized perspectives, and critical positions on VR/AR/MR: artandcode.com
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Dear friends: I am pleased to announce that I am releasing collectible artworks on the @hicetnunc2000 NFT platform, which uses the ecologically-friendly Tezos blockchain.
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#6799: Ambigrammatic Figure #0009 (Card 06)
by #tz1eQThmh9yuuxjvFBWbRGKUr2goUw1gAd39
The grotesque face in this GIF is an "ambigram": an image that is legible both upside-down and right...
hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/6799
#Tezos #NFT $xtz
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As points out, the 2nd-generation near-copies being auctioned by , upscaled to 6000x4500 pixels by a CMU grad student because the wanted versions at that size...are a significant departure from the material conditions of Warhol's originals.
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Uli Westphal's study of elephants as imagined by medieval illustrators: top-notch visual research uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthro
Wrestling (or fantasizing) about making geometric abstraction again. Hid that part of myself away for years. Art School dismisses it as "not critical" (cynically: not sanctioned agitprop). But I feel a commitment to form is hopeful, dammit, and a radical position in its own way.
A curse for software artists: May you spend your 40s maintaining the work from your 20s.
Breakthrough today by at on our (JS) hand-tracker. Bootstrapping our finger-segmentation with Google's keypoint tracker gives highly accurate results at 7fps. On 's advice, we will be working in the open shortly. (cc:
RIP. Chuck Csuri — pioneer of computer art and professor at OSU — has passed away at age 99. Csuri was among the first dozen or so people to use a digital computer to make art; his work (including Sine Curve Man and Hummingbird, 1967) is archived at: csuriproject.osu.edu
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it is with sadness i share that Chuck Csuri a renaissance gentleman and gentle man has passed at the age of 99…
There will be more information forthcoming about his extraordinary and heroic life in the weeks ahead.
Born on the 4th of July in 1922 his life made a difference.
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For those interested, our forthcoming Processing library for embroidery designs can (currently) export .DST, .PEC, .PES, and .VP3 formats (as well as .SVG, .TSV, and .GCODE for CNC or AxiDraw output). Here are some more teaser images.
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By coincidence, earlier today I came across this system again in another book, “Logic and Design” (1980) by Krome Barratt.
Friends: this fall, with @CMUSchoolofArt's return to in-person education, I'm planning to teach "Drawing with Machines". We will write code, listen to music, and make REAL PHYSICAL THINGS with whirring robots & #AxiDraw plotters. Has anyone done/planning similar? #plottertwitter
Dear tweeps: I'm looking for examples of "professional" (i.e. design for clients) work made using . Please reply with examples? (Subtext: students resisting learning p5.js because of a perceived lack of a direct pathway to a jerb.)
Vera Molnár sketchbooks online
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GOLD content 
— Journal Intime II, Vera Molnár
Vera Molnár is one of my creative heroe, so glad to have access to this.
Internet making art accessible, yes 
If you're into generative art, have a look.
fr.calameo.com/read/000289561
#generativeart
via @michaelspalter
— Journal Intime II, Vera Molnár
Vera Molnár is one of my creative heroe, so glad to have access to this.
Internet making art accessible, yes
If you're into generative art, have a look.
fr.calameo.com/read/000289561
#generativeart
via @michaelspalter
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If you're looking for a free, browser-based animation & scripting tool to fill a Flash-shaped hole in your heart, please consider , developed by my former students . Ideal for kids ages 9-99.
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