July 4th, Stammtisch #135
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Grit
Part of Prachtsaal. We had a wonderful exhibition: 48h Neukölln. Topic was related to reality and perception. She built a machine: The Oracle Bot. You put your hand into the Oracle’s mouth, it reads your hand lines, then it tells you your future.
She used the Unity game engine with a Large Language Model which runs locally.
There also an Arduino, a thermal printer.
Bruce
Coming from the South of France. Has done shaders for a long time, but considers himself a beginner because there’s so much to learn. He’s using KodeLife, from the same people as TouchOSC (hexler.net). When he first saw it he was surprised you could create images with code. Shows that the software can be controlled via MIDI, by turning knobs in a controller.
Bruce also created his own software, a shader mixer, capable of mixing multiple frame buffers into a single image output. It can use OSC to control the mixing parameters. Bruce also makes music with Ableton Live. The software is written in C++ and can be found in https://github.com/videodromm. The layers in the software has blend modes and video output can feedback each other.
Philipp
https://www.instagram.com/fairlix/
On the past couple of month Felix has been exhibiting some of his previous artowrks.
A particle system accross 16 panels forming a cycle.
He’s been working on an animation with sea creatures and boats. When he started he knew nothing about coding. Now he’s working on particle systems. The figures (boats, etc) affect particle systems. There’s a ghost ship shooting lightnings. Also a UFO, a giant Squid, tornado and a submarine. A torpade just hit the vector whale. Ohhhh, NOOOOO!
He got fascinated by the debug views. Maybe some of those may end up in the final movie. Even the particle system is 2D the UFO comes from another dimension and the tornado is actually 3D
Even mr. physarum ended in the animation (the slime mold algorithm).
Ends showing an animation displayed at the Fusion festival.
== announcements ==
- Looking for a room
- Looking who can help with doing AI images
- Any friendly startups where to work?
- MotionLab Berlin. They’re looking for a social media junior candidate. See LinkedIn page.
- Software Dev looking for a job. Backend nodejs, c#, mathematics.
- Stef suggests HomeAssistant (FOSS for home automation).
- Tony: Introduction to the Fediverse (Mastodon/Pixelfed/…), targeted at people new to the topic. Saturday from 2pm to 6 at c-base (intro talk at 2pm!) https://www.topio.info/smarte_welt-demokratie-ki-algorithmen.html#fediverse
== 10 min break ==
Constanze
Talks about Kherson, a city on the South of Ukraine. She has a data-set involving casualties on that area. There are casualties, injured, first-responders. The data goes up to May this year with 2000+ data points sourced from Ukrainian officials.
The positions in the data are not super accurate, somewhat randomized. Uses Map-Libre. She’s planning to do it over all the country.
The individual dots becomes a heatmap when zooming out.
The project is very important for her. Looking for someone in the audience to join and help with the design, otherwise she will tweak it forever. Looking for ideas. It’s not CSS so much, but Map-GL. Knowing about shaders probably helps. But just visual feedback would help. The performance of the map is good.
Contact: constanze at hollyhook. de
Eric
Does motion graphics, advertising related stuff. Runs the AVJam at Motion Lab and works with a lot of other artist and VJs.
Many people use modular synthesizers. So he built a fake one. The Brain Synth. It’s a hollow box, like a movie prop. Uses a hidden iPad running resolume and tricks like Pepper’s ghost. It’s audio reactive. Using pepper’s ghost effect to display an audio reactive brain graphics on the a glass tube like a hologram.
Nothing is soldered because yolo
It contains an Arduino to take knob inputs.
The project is a Fake Brain Synth. Next project is gonna be a Meat Synth with liquid latex with lumbs and tummors for halloween.
https://www.instagram.com/tentonraygun/
https://www.instagram.com/avjamberlin/
Kinnera
Did a presentation for Elegoo: a 3D printing company.
In January bought a second 3D printer, then she received a third one.
In the photo in the presentation shows a very long yellow dress: a Lehenga.
Most of the dress is 3D printed. It has many 3D printed panels. Printed butterflies on various places. Tried with PLA but it is too brutal, wants to try a more elastic plastic. Wanted to create a veeery large print. Shows early hand drawn designs.
“Miss Looking Glass” is the name of the printer.
Utilizes FMD printers with .8mm and .4mm nozzles for small details in between of a base layer of fabric attached with magnets to the printing bed.
It printed 24 Kalis panels for the skirt within a period of 2 weeks printing.
The panels must be printed in 3 parts because they’re very long.
Used yellow on yellow to cover possible mistakes, next one will be more flashy.
The back of the top utilices 3D printed joints with a mix of butterflies and flexible axis that wraps around the back of the body.
They often have a hangin part, often with metal, which makes sound when you walk.
She like that some parts involved much math.
Kinnera wants to work more with wearable electronics like lights or sensors.