February 1st, Stammtisch #130
45pp
Alessandro - https://kimri.org
@Mimetik@genart.social
He likes creating systems and watching them.
Runs a particle system that is not running physics.
He likes that it’s an emergent system: structures appear which were not introduced by the developer. He added a unique feature, which is mutation triggered by claustrophobia. The system is complex / chaotic. It’s very dependent on the number of species in the simulation. When watching, it feels as if there is intentionality, even if there’s none.
See “Particle Life” as a reference.
https://www.ventrella.com/Clusters/intro.html
VJ Fader (James)
IG: https://www.instagram.com/vjfader
AI Animated Short Film (YouTube): https://youtu.be/r_4wgxV_nWs
He signed up for Runway, first created animated 3D shapes with Unreal + Niagara + Particle systems, and then used a video-to-video tool to convert the visuals into translucent creatures.
Related YouTube channel: Microcosm
https://www.youtube.com/@journeytomicro
Tom aka Pixtur
He’s been like 5 years thinking abut how to deal with graphs that can be zoomed in and out, panned, etc.
Before he used to use a tool like Werkzeug by a the Farbrausch team.
But now he has created his own. What’s special is that the nodes can be made to touch each other, without the need to add cables connecting them. A bit like in Scratch.
He mentions that people build insane systems and they are extremely fast at using them, but no other person in the planet can use them. In the end, you need users, and ideally you build things that other people can use too, even if it’s a bit less faster to use.
== announcements ==
- AVJam on Friday Feb. 28th 2025 at MotionLab Berlin, Open Call & Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/avjam-february-28th-1930-2300-tickets-1234832008779 See video documentations of past AV sets on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@avjamberlin/videos
- Follow AVJam on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avjamberlin
- Agentic AI & Creative Coding workshops, every Tuesday in February/March 2025 at Prachtsaal: https://xemantic.com/ai/workshops/
- Open Source AI project between spiritual and AI looking for AI engineers. Retraining models.
== break ==
Pascal
https://linkedin.com/in/pascal-disse-4ab774198
Software developer from Berlin working on Unity projects involving Hololens and AR.
He’s working on a game in style of GTA2.
Boomtown Rampage.
It takes place in the Berlin underground. He shows many images including the various groups of people who appear in the game, and some of the neighborhoods.
Gilbert (Autr)
Presents a project he’s worked on for a year and a half or two.
Most of his works are analog video, or interaction design - escaping AI.
He is interested interaction design between physical world and digital.
He worked on a project in Greece, where they pair an artist with a factory.
Learnt about polyhedra, made paper polyhedra, a web based tool to explore 3D polyhedra, using Wythoff Construction.
Went to Greece and started 3D printing with recycled and compostable filaments. Created plugs and connectors to build the polyhedra. Shows Arundo Donax system, sculptures, tensegrity experiments, and initial AD3 framework (a 3D framework for web).
Philipp
Ocean Twist: a short animation of an underwater world he’s been working on for a while.
He animates in 3DSMax which exports lots of json files, which are imported into Processing.
It was interesting to go back to key-frame animation after years of programming all motion, and felt a bit wasteful to animate things that can only be displayed in one way, when compared to programming, which can be shown again and again in different ways.