April 3rd, Stammtisch #72

Joreg
Presents the new just released VVVV. Found at https://visualprogramming.net/
Free for non-commercial use. Currently for Windows, but it’s written in .net
which is cross-platform, so eventually maybe for Mac & Linux.
You can create your own nodes. Supports all 3 versions of Kinect devices.
Joreg on Mastodon: https://vis.social/@joreg

Ilu
“Small bits”

1. https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOjS Recently released V1.0 of. “A DOS JavaScript Canvas with sound”. He recently made it perform much better.

   Project Page: https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOjS
   Release tweet: https://twitter.com/dec_hl/status/1243531182018568194

2. Pictures from my old Photoblog: https://twitter.com/PhotosStarred
3. Built his own version of corona last week in p5.js https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/860752 running on MS-DOS https://twitter.com/dec_hl/status/1241670809506189313

Contact: https://twitter.com/dec_hl

Shader limitations in Processing:
https://medium.com/@kazikpogoda/the-limits-of-processing-and-how-i-transcend-them-with-openrndr-e6a63c5924fd?source=friends_link&sk=352dc832041122081c84860e6064c184

Rein
Showing a text based rendering thing he made. First still, then animated.
Runs in the browser. Converting photos to text, but also algorithmic noise.
https://reinvdwoerd.github.io/reinvdwoerd/digitalart/multi-noise.html
https://reinvdwoerd.github.io/reinvdwoerd/news-noise.html

Converted fonts using filters to damage the fonts, then converted them back to
a font. Affected by reaction diffusion.
https://www.rein.computer/rdfont/
Used https://www.fontself.com/ to convert the images to a font (for Illustrator).
https://www.instagram.com/reinvanderwoerd/

Kazik
Was contacted by a friend asking about who can build a robot, so
he said he would do it. A robot carries around a pico projector in the club.
Found a project for converting vacuum cleaners into hackable robots.
Carries a Raspberry Pi & a power converter. The Pi overrides the computer
in the vacuum cleaner and gets access to the sensors.
Projector:
Link to API:
https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/datasheets/create_2_Open_Interface_Spec.pdf
Nvidia Jetson Nano:
https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-nano-developer-kit

Projectors with battery:

Artlii Mana Mini Beamer - 50 lumens
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07NVBDD19/

Mini Projector, Crosstour - 100 lumens
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B081GQP57J/

Apeman M4 Mini Projector - 100 lumens
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01NBUVGY4/

It seems that is is still possible to buy an older model, M7, which is cheaper, and might have better specs - better stereo speakers, 150 lumens, but it’s much heavier and bigger

https://www.amazon.de/Tragbarer-Bluetooth-Lautsprecher-eingebauter-Lebensdauer/dp/B07GGJC22N/

Acers - you can choose 3 models, 100-300 lumens ranging from 180-240 EUR
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B076N66B6Z/

Podoor Mini Projector 250ANSI Lumens
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B082VBC8VN/

Viewsonic M1 Portable LED Projector - 250 lumens
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B078WG5P4W/?th=1

— break —

Announcements

• Marie: artistic zoom bombing? Is it possible? Who wants to try? marieflanagan.com
• Stef: built a web app to connect to Spotify to help get out of playing the same music always.
• Ilu: one layer on top of Marie’s idea: use ML to have an avatar of a very known person to join the Zoom call.
• Taru: Recroom social VR platform, you can do scripting. Programming around you in space. https://rec-room.fandom.com/wiki/Circuits Tomorrow Saturday at 3 online. Tomorrow just a small test with more people. Eventually a bigger event? Works on different headsets. Contact… Taru me@tarumuhonen.com or Taru in Mattermost/Discord
• https://pixelfed.org/ free open platform alternative to Instagram
• Daily lunch: https://meet.jit.si/LowFrequencySkies

Abe

1. Short announcement about OpenRNDR: https://openrndr.org/ Wrote three posts comparing writing simple programs in Processing and OpenRNDR and highlighting differences between the two languages.
2. Sharing code of old sketches on Github: https://github.com/hamoid/Fun-Programming/tree/master/processing/ideas

Elliy
Projection mapping system. A shared document edited by remote people, then projected
onto balloons and other objects, remote participants can see via webcam the result. “Quarantine art from your own window”
Does a live peformance with a cello, projections on balloons, a contact microphone, a Bella with some PD for sound.
Suggests doing a festival of online performances?

Related: https://quarantinestories.today/ (made by RNDR)

Naoto
Windows
OBS Studio https://obsproject.com/ (use 32 bit)
VirtualCam https://github.com/CatxFish/obs-virtual-cam/releases
patch for zoom https://github.com/CatxFish/obs-virtual-cam/issues/78
WIP: https://facemeshtest.glitch.me/
Announcement: Processing hangout https://twitter.com/ProcessingOrg/status/1245071108530831360
https://twitter.com/naoto_hieda
facemesh: https://storage.googleapis.com/tfjs-models/demos/facemesh/index.html