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Apr 14, 2021

Extended bio: I’m a multidisciplinary software engineer, computational designer, artist, researcher, teacher, prolific open source tool maker w/ 25+ yrs experience. Use this thread to learn more about me & selected projects (in no particular order, adding more over time):

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Feb 2

Btw. Follow here for more WIP:

The social network of the future: No ads, no corporate surveillance, ethical design, and decentralization! Own your data with Mastodon!

Mastodon Glitch Edition

Feb 2

New work, coming soon... release date still TBC #DANZA #GenerativeArt #KineticArt #Pointillism #PhysicsSim

Jan 1

So it's 2023 & I'm freezing this account! It was a hard decision & I gonna miss many of you, but this platform just isn't what it used to be and not conducive to the signal-to-noise ratio & exchanges I'd like to see in my TL. We can do better, elsewhere! → @toxi@mastodon.thi.ng

Jan 1

Happy New Year everyone - may we all do our bit to not turn this into another train wreck and allow ourselves (and each other) to live up to our full potential! Be the light! ☀️

Happy New Year message in ASCII art, using a custom 12x10 character font I originally designed in 1997

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Dec 31, 2022

I want to take this opportunity to send heartfelt thanks & gratitude to all those of you who've been supporting my #opensource work this year (or for much longer!), not just financially, but also by contributing ideas/fixes/critiques... Full message:

Dec 31, 2022

The 2022 commits-per-week chart for #ThingUmbrella. This is how it looks, coming back to normal (i.e. 20-50 commits per week) and out from the slump at the beginning of the year... Full message: mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/10960783

Dec 29, 2022

#ReleaseThursday Likely the last of 67 #ThingUmbrella release cycles this year, including: - thi.ng/geom-trace-bit: new package (#176) to extract hairline segments in multiple directions or single pixels as 2d point clouds (see recent plotting toots...

#ReleaseThursday Likely the last of 67 #ThingUmbrella release cycles this year, including: - https://thi.ng/geom-trace-bitmap: new package (#176) to extract hairline segments in multiple directions...

Dec 27, 2022

Working on a custom version of C-SCAPE (art.thi.ng/c-scape) #CellularAutomata to prepare artwork for 5-color acrylic paint drawing. New upcoming #ThingUmbrella package to help with bitmap-to-vector conversion: thi.ng/geom-trace-bit mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/10958520 #GenerativeArt

Screenshot of vectorized 5-color SVG output of 540 generations of multiple co-evolving custom 1D cellular automata. With the help of the applied shading, the structures generated by these different automata have a highly architectural character with a seemingly isometric perspective.

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Dec 24, 2022

A holly jollyday!🎄 This is a friendly reminder that this account will be put on ice indefinitely in 1 week's time. You can find me elsewhere via "links in bio"...

hrvaslin / TriggeringAesthetic

hr vaslin

@hr2hr2hr2

Dec 23, 2022

my humble collection.. one of my fav for 2022 🥳 with works of:

Art everywhere

閲覧用(Etsuran)

@etsuranpazz

Dec 21, 2022

無事ボーナスを頂戴したので、狙っていたgenerative artを2つ購入しました ASSEMBLING MACHINE #89 created by

@teaboswell

gateway.fxhash2.xyz/ipfs/QmYKuXYG5 C-SCAPE #226 created by

gateway.fxhash2.xyz/ipfs/QmdHhcTBE

objkt.com

@objktcom

Dec 21, 2022

#5 ASCII-SCAPE #38 by

This is an interactive token. Click on the link to see the piece. 1/1 - 185 XTZ on the secondary market: 🔗objkt.com/asset/fxhash/9

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Dec 18, 2022

I wonder if there's sometimes, maybe just sometimes, a hint or a brief moment of regret... Or is this just an innocent "why?", one which is lacking awareness of what happened here of late? I can't tell (anymore)...

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jack

@jack

Dec 18, 2022

Replying to @TwitterSupport

Why?

Dec 18, 2022

Hi all! It's only a matter of time now until my accounts will be suspended for "violating" the newly introduced policy outlawing links to other social media accounts! I don't know why people put up with this & other recent stuff, but I can't & won't support this any longer...😢🫡

Dec 14, 2022

Happy to include more, just pls let me know which other ones would be helpful too... 🙏

Broadly scoped ecosystem & mono-repository of 177 TypeScript projects for general purpose, functional, data driven development - thi-ng/umbrella

Dec 14, 2022

Since one of the most expressed comments re: #ThingUmbrella is confusion about the amount of technical coding terms & abbrevs used in readmes/docs, I've started writing a big glossary (~80 terms, 2300 words so far):

github.com

Glossary

Dec 12, 2022

Today it's been a month since I switched to Mastodon on my own instance. Other than not having done so earlier & missing quite a few people here, I've got very few regrets! Some other positive points:

Today it's been a month since I switched to Mastodon on my own instance. Other than not having done so earlier & missing quite a few people here, I've got very few regrets! Some other positive...

Eniko Fox (@eniko@peoplemaking.games)

Dec 11, 2022

(Same sentiment from my POV...) RT @eniko@peoplemaking.games really starting to resent having to use twitter in any capacity just because so many people refuse to quit

peoplemaking.games

Content warning: re: elon musk, twitter

Elysium State by Stardust (final version)

Dec 11, 2022

tl;dr version... RT @TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place Absolutely insane new ZX Spectrum demo:

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Release date: 04-12-2022Release party: CAFePARTY2022Compo: ZX Spectrum DemoPlatform: ZX SpectrumRanked: 1stPouet: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=92986Z...

Dec 11, 2022

One thing I absolutely love about #RetroComputing: Witnessing the positive impact of time/age and the exponentially larger amount of available knowledge, community/ies, references and resources has on quality and richness of productions...

One more from that magical morning...

Stayed over in this amazing, almost 700 year old village near #Lugano on our short transalpine trip to #Milano in October... 🇨🇭❤️ #Arzo #Switzerland #LandscapePhotography #StreetPhotography

And for completeness sake, here's the source code (minus imports) for the above stippling example:

#ReleaseSaturday + special interest for #AxiDraw #PenPlotter aficionados: Includes pre-announced (meanwhile revised/extended) new packages: thi.ng/axidraw thi.ng/geom-axidraw Shape conversion w/ detailed options (per shape) for draw controls.. mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/10949017

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Since I'm not near the machine right now, here's just an SVG of a more complex test design... #AxiDraw #PenPlotter #Geometry #ThingUmbrella

Per-shape & on-the-fly polyline clipping against arbitrary(*) polygon boundaries. Still need to extract this to be also more usable in other usage contexts... (*) I'm sure there're edge cases for which this will break, but it should be pretty stable for what it's intended...

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For those interested to follow along (or already want to dig in): github.com/thi-ng/umbrell

So quick end-of-day update. Still no new releases, but all pretty much ready (pending any unexpected issues, should be all good to go tomorrow): - - thi.ng/geom-axidraw - most of my week went into this one: Convert entire shape…

So quick end-of-day update. Still no new releases, but all pretty much ready (pending any unexpected issues, should be all good to go tomorrow): - https://thi.ng/geom-axidraw - most of my week went...

Source code for the example design shown in the above timelapse (minus imports)...

Last #AxiDraw example/demo of today: Shape group conversion and stippling... Used too high motor speed (for testing) so not the most precise drawing, but it's about the approach/workflow here mainly... Source… mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/10947494

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Dec 8, 2022

The entire #TypeScript source code (minus imports) for the above timelapse... plus it also exports the design as SVG file... #AxiDraw #PenPlotter #ThingUmbrella

Dec 8, 2022

Another new #AxiDraw related library coming later tonight: This will provide a single polymorphic function to convert thi.ng/geom shapes & groups/hierarchies to a stream of #PenPlotter draw commands (no SVG!)... The minimal code for this drawing shown in reply!

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Dec 7, 2022

A quick 1 min #Generative #LiveCoding Node.js REPL session in which I visualize a Z-Curve fractal sequence (produced via thi.ng/grid-iterators) on the #AxiDraw #PenPlotter using my brand new library thi.ng/axidraw. No SVG needed (or wanted here)! #ThingUmbrella

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Dec 7, 2022

What to do on the 2nd day of my life w/ the beautiful #AxiDraw #PenPlotter? Well, write my own controller for it, of course! thi.ng/axidraw is package no.172 in #ThingUmbrella. Declarative (not imperative!)… mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/10946794

Screenshot of the example code from the linked readme file of the new project: thi.ng/axidraw

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Screenshot of the intro section of the linked readme file...

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Dec 5, 2022

After toying with the idea of doing more proper(*) #PlotterArt for some years now, I'm finally joining the club! Thanks to

@EMSL

for designing this very noice device & userfriendly UX! 😍 (*) Since 2018 also been using Ultimaker S5 with custom G-Code generators for phys. drawing

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Copernicus EU

@CopernicusEU

Dec 5, 2022

#Copernicus for #WorldSoilDay Protecting #soil is protecting our future #OpenData from our #Sentinel and Copernicus Services contributes to improved management of this precious resource ⬇️Multitemporal NDVI image of agricultural fields in #Spain 🇪🇸 obtained with #Sentinel2🖼️

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Dec 4, 2022

#SilentSunday indeed... #LandscapePhotography #NoirCountry

Distant view across a river and its tree lined bank in very dense fog earlier today.

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blog/20221204-personal-considerations.md at main · thi-ng/blog

Dec 4, 2022

I wrote a thing (2700 words!), all in all been on my mind for a looong time! Even if highly personal & subjective, maybe also useful to others: Personal considerations for creating generative art github.com/thi-ng/blog/bl #Blog #GenerativeArt #Manifesto #LongRead

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Current blog posts and consolidated historical articles from various other blog platforms used previously - blog/20221204-personal-considerations.md at main · thi-ng/blog