May 2nd, Stammtisch #133
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 :)
- A New Session: A magazine you can read in a terminal: telnet issue1.anewsession.com (also https://anewsession.com/) [from Gabor]
- Internet in a box: when the world goes down or you are just in the mountains. https://internet-in-a-box.org/ maybe a LLM could be interesting in there [from Matthi]
Presentations #1
Susanne & Thomas
They share their new website built with eleventy and tooll3
Flower of life (https://urbanflow.art/en/flower-of-life/): a sound sculpture projected on the inside of a large loudspeaker/megaphone. Sounds are all synthesized (VCV Rack), visuals generated by Tooll3.
The tides (https://urbanflow.art/en/the-tides/): Logo designed in 2006 for a softimage user group in Berlin. 3D printed on ender 5+ in four parts (each took about a day) combined with wooden dowels. LED strips for the lighting. Audio done in (Bitwig?? DAW) physical modeling synth.
Martin
Identifying as a creative coder. Grew up in Munich. Went to art school in the UK. Now studying maths in Berlin. For making YouTube videos about math, needed tools to make complex animations.
https://run.pinsandcurves.app/
A timeline with keyframes you can use with p5.js.
Other demo: https://run.pinsandcurves.app/?template=cyberspaghetti
All rapidly prototyped and unstable. Looking for feedback on how to make it useful for people other than himself.
Similar projects:
- theater.js
- https://motioncanvas.io
- Duration
Suggestions
- WebMidi
- WebSockets
- OSC
Jeff
Left software, dabbled in dataviz, stuck with creative coding. Started creating digital, 2D static work. Got interested in animation and shaders.
Population (https://jpalmer.art/projects/population/): Art piece based on the idea of histograms
Above the Infinite (https://jpalmer.art/projects/above-the-infinite/): Generative animated piece that involves randomness. A visualization of a mathematical formula that runs and changes forever.
Recursion I (https://jpalmer.art/projects/recursion-i/): Generative series of iterative fractals
Generative art is hard to sell. Been taking painting classes, doing paintings, and pen plotter pieces. Enjoys encouraging the medium to fail during the plotting process, e.g. https://www.instagram.com/p/DEUASDGReUb/
An experiment in making Javascript fast: https://wip.jpalmer.dev/
Creative process: likes short (immediate) iteration times, picks languages that enable that. Most of his good work happens in an unplanned process.
== announcements ==
- aBe is planning a pen-plotter 🖊️🤖workshop. Interested? Send 📧 to workshop@funprogramming.org 😁
- Thomas: Tooll3 will be called TiXL in the next version: tixl.app Will also have amazing new features. Much easier to share projects. Faster startup time. SDF raymarching. etc. Also it’s a secret. Don’t tell anyone.
- Looking for audio visualisation examples.
- Kazik: Science Hackathon: https://xemantic.com/ai/science-hackathon/
- Stef is looking for an older(ish) desktop pc
- Next week Thu thru Sat: superbooth (in FEZ) EU worldwide synth gathering https://www.superbooth.com/en/
- Raph: Processing Project Lead Job Opening (Deadline: May 15th): https://processingfoundation.org/employment/processing-project-lead
- pr05 grant (Deadline May 31st): https://processingfoundation.org/grants
== break ==
10 minutes
Presentations #2
Andreas
Talks about a book on “what is mathematics” and a chapter that was about images. A part of maths that deals with images is Knot Theory. Celtic knots which are not really Celtic but similar to knots you find there. Two years ago met Erkal and he told Andreas about Elm language (https://elm-lang.org/). Idea: generating a game with the knot generator but hard to find a good gameplay mechanic.
Mo
Optical flow made in Python. Demo using video made with a gopro attached to the front of a bike. No AI, just a very old style algorithm. Very innacurate. Had to add a lot fo logic to get that permanence where points are consistent over time.
Victor
Promised something “silly”. Starts by entering a URL that points to his computer that we mustn’t remember. Finally solves this off-screen.
Presents LLM Party: a personal sketchbook of experiments with LLM. There are many experiments already, showing Infini_Net 95. It hsa a retro browser. The websites you visit are fully LLM-generated in real time. They have a retro GeoCities look from the 90s. He shows “creativecoding.berlin”.
Uses Aider: https://aider.chat/