The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.
Data: Digital Universe, American Museum of Natural History
Visualization Software: Uniview by SCISS
Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987) took a lot of photographs, making an obsessive’s visual diary of what and who we saw. Now we can see 130,000 of Warhol’s photos on 3,600 contact sheets and corresponding negatives at the Andy Warhol Photography Archive, a project run by Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center and Stanford Libraries. “He snapped photos at discos, dinner parties, flea markets, and wrestling matches,” say notes on the archive acquired from The Andy Warhol Foundation in 2014. “Friends, boyfriends, business associates, socialites, celebrities, passers by: all captured Warhol’s attention – at least for the moment he looked through the lens.”
http://cantorcollections.stanford.edu/IT_267?sid=18&x=38732&display=thu&x=38733
A painstaking investigation of Europe’s cave art has revealed 32 shapes and lines that crop up again and again and could be the world’s oldest code.
english : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
Cette liste des listes rassemble des liens vers des pages qui consistent en une liste ou qui comportent une liste.
Sans Forgetica is a font designed using the principles of cognitive psychology to help you to better remember your study notes.
It was created by a multidisciplinary team of designers and behavioural scientists from RMIT University.
Sans Forgetica is compatible with both PC and Mac operating systems. Download it for free today, or keep scrolling to learn more about how it was made.
The Euclidean algorithm (which comes down to us from Euclid’s Elements) computes the greatest common divisor of two given integers. It is shown here that the structure of the Euclidean algorithm may be used to generate, very efficiently , a large family of rhythms used as timelines (ostinatos), in sub-Saharan African music in particular, and world music in general. These rhythms, here dubbed Euclidean rhythms, have the property that their onset patterns are distributed as evenly as possible. Euclidean rhythms also find application in nuclear physics accelerators and in computer science, and are closely related to several families of words and sequences of interest in the study of the combinatorics of words, such as Euclidean strings, to which the Euclidean rhythms are compared.
It's all a game of construction — some with a brush, some with a shovel, some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock
…and some, including myself, choose neural networks. I’m an artist, and I've also been building commercial software for a long while. But art and software used to be two parallel tracks in my life; save for the occasional foray into generative art with Processing and computational photography, all my art was analog… until I discovered GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks).
Since the invention of GANs in 2014, the machine learning community has produced a number of deep, technical pieces about the technique (such as this one). This is not one of those pieces. Instead, I want to share in broad strokes some reasons why GANs are excellent artistic tools and the methods I have developed for creating my GAN-augmented art.
https://github.com/junyanz/pytorch-CycleGAN-and-pix2pix
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~taesung_park/CycleGAN/datasets/
https://github.com/eriklindernoren/PyTorch-GAN
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/introduction-to-generative-adversarial-networks-gans-35ef44f21193
https://github.com/nightrome/really-awesome-gan
https://github.com/zhangqianhui/AdversarialNetsPapers
https://github.com/io99/Resources
https://github.com/yunjey/pytorch-tutorial
https://github.com/bharathgs/Awesome-pytorch-list
https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning
http://www.codingwoman.com/generative-adversarial-networks-entertaining-intro/
https://medium.com/@jonathan_hui/gan-gan-series-2d279f906e7b
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9OeZkIwhzfv-_Cb7fCikLQ/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi&v=aircAruvnKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLxt59R_fWVzT9bDxA76AHm3ig0Gg9S3So&v=ZzWaow1Rvho
Repaint your picture in the style of your favorite artist.
About
Our mission is to provide a novel artistic painting tool that allows everyone to create and share artistic pictures with just a few clicks. All you need to do is upload a photo and choose your favorite style. Our servers will then render your artwork for you. We apply an algorithm developed by Leon Gatys, Alexander Ecker and Matthias Bethge. The website was originally created by Łukasz Kidziński and Michał Warchoł. We have now joined forces to provide you with the latest technology in even more accessible way.
Our Team
Five researchers from the Bethge lab at University of Tübingen (Germany), CHILI Lab at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) and Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium).
processing_cheat_sheet_english.pdf
An anatomical case study of the Amazon echo as a artificial intelligence system made of human labor
Thoroughly updated, this fourth edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of programmable shaders, a wide variety of new algorithms have arisen and evolved over the past few years. This edition discusses current, practical rendering methods used in games and other applications. It also presents a solid theoretical framework and relevant mathematics for the field of interactive computer graphics, all in an approachable style. New to this edition: new chapter on VR and AR as well
An open source machine embroidery design platform based on Inkscape.
Ink/Stitch aims to be a full-fledged embroidery digitizing platform based entirely on free, open source software. Our goal is to be approachable for hobbyists while also providing the power needed by professional digitizers.
Following a self-titled EP last year, Dario Rojo Guerra aka Natureboy Flako is set to release his second album ‘Theme For A Dream’ on Five Easy Pieces on 20th July 2018. Exploring the boundaries of music, science and spirituality through a prism of colourfully synthesised-sound, heart-pounding rhythm and cinematic soundtracks; the core essence of ‘Theme For A Dream’ is the exploration of the human inner space, the balance of musical energies and music’s healing capabilities.
‘Theme For A Dream’ will be accompanied by an experimental and interactive website that allows users to preview music while being an immersive, unique multi-sensual 4D experience of its own. Snippets of the music from 'Theme For A Dream' become audio visual poetry and an immersive exploration of state of the art technology and oneself.
Albert-Charles-Auguste Racinet (1825–1893), himself an accomplished artist, is best known today for publishing two major pictorial works on the history of design — Le costume historique and L’Ornement polychrome — while engraver and artistic director at the Parisian publisher Firmin Didot et Cie. Published in ten instalments between 1869 and 1873, the first iteration of L’Ornement polychrome (Colour ornament) is a visual record in 100 plates of the decorative arts from antiquity to the eighteenth century. The work was such a huge success that in 1885–7 Racinet brought out a second series, this time of 120 plates, and updated to include designs of the nineteenth century as well. The imagery presented in both series is drawn from a wide array of various mediums, including woodwork, metalwork, architecture, textiles, painting, and pottery, and from cultures all over the world.
Although based on past masterpieces of design, the fantastic reproductions in L’Ornement polychrome, carried out by a number of skilled commercial artists of the day, can be considered works of art in their own right. Indeed, for Racinet, the purpose of such a compilation of past design excellence was not only to celebrate the masters of the past but also to inspire an improvement of decorative arts in his own day and age.
The images featured here come from an excellent set of scans by RawPixel from their own 1888 edition of the first series. You can also leaf through the work in book form (again the first series) over at the New York Public Library.
What is Open Library?
Our goal is to provide a page on the web for every book ever published.
At its heart, Open Library is a catalog. The project began in November 2007 and has been inhaling catalog records from some of the biggest libraries in the world ever since. We have well over 20 million edition records online, provide access to 1.7 million scanned versions of books, and link to external sources like WorldCat and Amazon when we can. The secondary goal is to get you as close to the actual document you're looking for as we can, whether that is a scanned version courtesy of the Internet Archive, or a link to Powell's where you can purchase your own copy.
The “Research” section on this website represents the in-the-making process of the What Music Really İs manual as an interactive presentation, book, and featured documentary. It wishes to be the scientific & mystical knowledge base on the science of music: harmonics, sound, acoustics, tuning and all else related.
“What Music Really İs” is a statement. It is not a question, and not a theory. It is a fact. “What Music Really İs: The Manual for The 3rd Millennium Musician, Spiritual Seeker and Free Energy Discoverer” together with “Harmonic Series Hearing Study for the Liberated Ear”: the only True Ear Training lessons for the development of Perfect Aural Frequency and Harmonic Sonic Distance Recognition are currently the single resources that present music for what it really is, without points of view or centers of interest.
All the concepts presented here are not the result of historical practice, do not adhere to any philosophy, are not linked to any school of taught and do not specifically endorse any form of institutionalized, academic- or esoteric-type of content. The form in which all facts are presented does not make use of any standard (modern or ancient) music theory or nomenclature.
RACHEL is a portable plug-and-play server which stores educational websites and makes that content available over any local (offline) wireless connection. RACHEL makes deploying a library of digital content as easy as pushing a button.
Then simply turn it on. While RACHEL is on, take your device and connect to "RACHEL" as you would any wifi network. Then open a web browser and type the web address (a number listed on the front sticker of your RACHEL).
Once you're connected to RACHEL, you can instantly access offline versions of the world's best free educational websites including Wikipedia, Khan Academy, and over 100 more.
Demo :
http://rachelfriends.org/previews/rachelpi_64EN_4.0/
http://rachelfriends.org/previews/rachelpi_64FR_3.0/
http://rachelfriends.org/previews/rachelpi_64ES_3.0/
Build your own here : http://rachelfriends.org/rachel-pi-howto.html
A collaborative reading experiment with Mary Shelley’s classic novel.
Frankenbook is a collective reading and collaborative annotation experience of the original 1818 text of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The project launched in January 2018, as part of Arizona State University’s celebration of the novel’s 200th anniversary. Even two centuries later, Shelley’s modern myth continues to shape the way people imagine science, technology, and their moral consequences. Frankenbook gives readers the opportunity to trace the scientific, technological, political, and ethical dimensions of the novel, and to learn more about its historical context and enduring legacy.
The Electricity Map is developed and maintained by Tomorrow, a small Danish/French start-up company. Our goal is to help humanity reach a sustainable state of existence by quantifying, and making widely accessible, the climate impact of the daily choices we make.
L'Ouvroir de Génération Procédurale (OuGéPro) est un ensemble d'outils absurdes, d'algorithmes inutiles et de bots idiots visant à la production de textes insensés, créé par Ambroise Garel pour la Chaothèque.
https://chaotheque.org/ougepro/cuisinotron
INGRÉDIENTS
– 12 billes de mozzarella
– 400g de Nutella
PRÉPARATION
– Frottez la mozzarella avec un citron
– Frottez le Nutella avec un citron
– Versez la mozzarella sur le Nutella
– Malaxez à la main pendant 70 minutes
– Placez le tout dans un pain pita
Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, Linux, or Android) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.
You can choose to support projects such as Einstein@Home, IBM World Community Grid, and SETI@home, among many others. If you run several projects, try an account manager such as GridRepublic or BAM! .
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php
By David Shultz
Apr. 22, 2016 , 10:15 AM
When it comes to the origin of Western fairy tales, the 19th century Brothers Grimm get a lot of the credit. Few scholars believe the Grimms were actually responsible for creating the tales, but academics probably didn’t realize how old many of these stories really are. A new study, which treats these fables like an evolving species, finds that some may have originated as long as 6000 years ago.
The basis for the new study, published in Royal Society Open Science, is a massive online repository of more than 2000 distinct tales from different Indo-European cultures known as the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, which was compiled in 2004. Although not all researchers agree on the specifics, all modern Indo-European cultures (encompassing all of Europe and much of Asia) descended from the Proto-Indo-European people who lived during the Neolithic Period (10,200 B.C.E.–2000 B.C.E.) in Eastern Europe. Much of the world’s modern language is thought to have evolved from them.
An interactive map of the evolutionary relationships between 1.8 million species of life on our planet. Each leaf on the tree represents a species and the branches show how they are connected through evolution. Discover your favourites, see which species are under threat, and wonder at over 100,000 images on a single page.
Copying an element from a photo and pasting it into a painting is a challenging task. Applying photo compositing techniques in this context yields subpar results that look like a collage --- and existing painterly stylization algorithms, which are global, perform poorly when applied locally. We address these issues with a dedicated algorithm that carefully determines the local statistics to be transferred. We ensure both spatial and inter-scale statistical consistency and demonstrate that both aspects are key to generating quality results. To cope with the diversity of abstraction levels and types of paintings, we introduce a technique to adjust the parameters of the transfer depending on the painting. We show that our algorithm produces significantly better results than photo compositing or global stylization techniques and that it enables creative painterly edits that would be otherwise difficult to achieve.
Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville uses the phonautogram to record the human voice by tracing sound waves on smoke-blackened paper or glass. The resulting tracings could not be played back at the time, but in 2008 several tracings from 1860 were processed as digital audio files and successfully played back (1853)
The Aziz! Light Crew Freeliner is a live geometric animation software built with Processing. The documentation is a little sparse and the ux is rough but powerfull.
Also known as a!LcFreeliner. This software is feature-full geometric animation software built for live projection mapping. Development started in fall 2013.
It is made with Processing. It is licensed as GNU Lesser General Public License. A official release will occur once I have solidified the new architecture developed during this semester.
Using a computer mouse cursor the user can create geometric forms composed of line segments. These can be created in groups, also known as segmentGroup. To facilitate this task the software has features such as centering, snapping, nudging, fixed length segments, fixed angles, grids, and mouse sensitivity adjustment.
In 1973, Orson Welles narrated this animated short, which features somewhat surreal artwork by Dick Oden. You can see more of Oden's work here.
The Allegory of the Cave illustrates Plato's view of knowledge as presented in Book VII of The Republic: in ordinary experience, we see only shadows of the true world, which we can only behold by pursuing rigorous philosophical analysis.
This is not the only time "The Cave" has been set to film in some form. Open Culture readers may recall this brilliant version done with claymation. Gluttons for punishment may wish to peruse this collection of 20 YouTube versions at PartiallyExaminedLife.com, many of them frightfully amateurish and some of them presenting a warped and/or incomprehensible version of the story.
When computer software automatically generates output that is not identical to its owntext, some of which is potentially copyrightable and some of which is not, difficult problemsarise in deciding to whom ownership rights in the output should be allocated. Applying thetraditional authorship tests of copyright law does not yield a clear solution to this problem. Inthis Article, Professor Samuelson argues that allocating rights in computer-generated outputto the user of the generator program is the soundest solution to the dilemma because it is theone most compatible with traditional doctrine and the policies that underlie copyright law.
This project will fund the production, via crowd sourcing, of a never-before-released translation of Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick in Japanese emoji icons.
Methodology
Each of Moby Dick's 6,438 sentences will be translated 3 times by different Amazon Mechanical Turk workers. Those results will then be voted on by another set of workers, and the most popular version of each sentence will be selected for inclusion in the book.
Here is a sample of a test run I've done on the first couple of chapters:
In the book, the sentences will be arranged with the Emoji on top of the page and the English sentence at the bottom.
NetBehaviour - is an open email list community engaged in the process of sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
NetBehaviour- is for networked media artists, researchers, academics, soft groups, writers, code geeks, curators, independent thinkers, activists, net sufis, non nationalists and net mutualists.
NetBehaviour - encourages individuals, small groups of mutual interest and representatives of organisations to announce and promote their own projects and events on the list along with the exchange of related concepts/ideas/information/resources.
NetBehaviour - is a place where creative minds can share contemporary ideas and concepts, without either the censorship or endorsement of a centrally imposed hierarchical canon, stunting their creative interests. All disputes are settled by all subscribers in the public forum of the email list.
We are the medium - the context - the source of networked creativity.
Chataigne is made with one goal in mind : create a common tool for artists, technicians and developers who wish to use technology and synchronize softwares for shows, interactive installations or prototyping. It aims to be as simple as possible for basic interactions, but can be easily extended to create complex interactions
Modular Video Plugins for Ableton Live
VIZZable is developed with love and released free to the community in the hopes of advancing the art of live audio-visual performance. If you get something out of VIZZable, please give something back to support its development.
All the bandcamp album made with Pure Data.
MoviePy is a Python module for video editing, which can be used for basic operations (like cuts, concatenations, title insertions), video compositing (a.k.a. non-linear editing), video processing, or to create advanced effects. It can read and write the most common video formats, including GIF.
Wildfire is a free and user-friendly image-processing software, mostly known for its sophisticated flame-fractal-generator. It is Java-based, open-source and runs on any major computer-plattform. There is also a special Android-version for mobile devices.
Created by Satoshi HORII at Rhizomatiks, (centiscript) is a JavaScript based creative code environment for creating experimental graphics. Imagined as an endless exploration from one script to another, Satoshi sees (centiscript) as a tool for visual thinking. Each experiment can be shared online since it relies on JavasScript + HTML + Canvas.
Seashells are beautiful objects that are admired for both their intricate shapes and the patterns on their surfaces. Despite their complexity these shapes are easily described using only elementary tools from geometry. Indeed a wide variety of natural shell shapes can be composed as surfaces in a 3-space and rendered using computer graphic imagery. Moreover, the pigmentation motifs that decorate many shells in the form of wavy stripes and checks as well as chaotic and tent designs can be generated by cellular automaton models, and in particular by the famous “Rule 30”.
Gian-Carlo Rota is professor of applied mathematics and
philosophy at MIT.
This article has appeared electronically in
Concerns of Young Mathematicians, Volume 4, Issue 25, August 21, 1996, a publication of the Young Mathematicians Net-work.
The article is based on a talk delivered on the occasion
of the Rotafest in April, 1996, and is reprinted with per-
mission of Birkhauser Boston, copyright 1997, ISBN 0-
8176-3866-0, Indiscrete Thoughts by Gian-Carlo Rota, edited by Fabrizio Palombi.
