April 4th, Stammtisch #132
Inspiration / Lightning round
Add a link of something creative-coding related you stumbled upon and a short description or why you liked it. It can also be something you made if you’d like to share but don’t feel like presenting! If possible, please add your name so we know who shared what :)
- Learn German by Immersion with open source LLMs and TTS - Ünsal
- ADHD the latest video from Igorrr / MEATDEPT https://youtu.be/TGIvO4eh190
Kyle
Worked on an interactive piece called “City lights”, shown in San Diego. It’s an installation with body tracking, people dancing or moving in front of the projection. There are 4 visual effects. It’s developed using Touch Designer. Orbbec stereo sensor (because infrared doesn’t work well in the sun). The effects rotate every 90 seconds.
They are planning to continue showing it in future events.
Did not used the depth but optical flow.
The Kinect cameras seemed to have worked better than the Orbbec one in this project.
Ünsal
Machine learning engineer with a problem called DTZ B1 level (German proficiency). He coded a program to bother him with German words and sentences. The program picks a random word, and generates sentences in German and English and reads it out loud.
The program uses spaced-repetition to help memorize things.
https://github.com/AutomaticHourglass/LanguageLearner
Gabriel
https://www.gabrieljeanjean.com/
Children’s book made with Blender
He used a generative approach in Blender, using Python scripts, to create a huge landscape. The program attaches hundreds of creatures he doodled when there were no clients in his previous job. The script chooses random colors and positions for the creatures, the ground, the sky, the water, etc. Laser cutter for the cover. Shape of the landscape is made with geometry nodes.
He made a small online shop to sell the books.
== announcements ==
- https://processingfoundation.org/fellowships
Processing Foundation Fellowships open call is open. Open to individuals and collectives. Deadline May 2. “We invite individuals and collectives working across creative coding, interactive fiction, time-based media, and live performances to propose artistic or technical projects that explore innovative approaches to telling stories through data. Fellows will receive support through a $10,000 stipend, mentorship, workshops, public programs, and community engagement opportunities.”
- https://xemantic.com/ai/workshops/
Agentic AI & Creative Coding workshops at Prachtsaal
- Julia: looking for a front end person for moodbase.de
- Abe: giveaway a horrible book of vegan japanese recipes entirely AI generated.
- Abe: Creative Coding Utrecht workshop on coding designs for pen plotters. https://creativecodingutrecht.nl/en/calendar/pen-plotting-workshop
- Has an idea for a VR experience. Doing some research on how to approach this. Would like to discuss it.
== break ==
Abdo
Created a program that creates programs producing visual output. Every time you click on the screen, it produces a new shader program.
The app constructs a shader program through random sampling from a set of pre-defined operations recursively until max depth is reached.
This can get addictive, like TikTok but for shaders, so consume responsibly!
Photosensitivity warning: since the shader are randomly generated, there can be flickering
Tom
Presentation from Johann Korndörfer about SDF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8nFqwOho-s
About Mercury, the GLSL SDF library - http://mercury.sexy/
Tooll news: added SDF modules, which generate shader code. And lots of amazing stuff that is hard to describe.
Ref: Screamer SDF by Charlie Roberts: https://github.com/charlieroberts/screamer
Felix
They’re creating a visuals using shaders and developing a controller for it.
https://gfx.aimparency.org/av-controller/
One of the projects is for a planetarium. Includes an easy midi mapping feature.
Created https://avonx.space which is a platform where one can upload visual artworks.
The platform is thought for VJing and it allows interpolating across sketches using various blend modes. The artworks can be anything placed on an HTML file (so 3D, or 2D or anything). Can include youtube videos. Or any embeddable website. Felix likes the idea of a web mixer.