An interactive visualisation of climate model data across time and space.
Bitmap Image to 'Pixel Perfect' Vector Graphic or 3D model
The HTML5 application on this page converts your bitmap image online into a Scalable Vector Graphics or 3D model.
The result is 'pixel perfect'/lossless.
https://www.atlasofplaces.com/research/infrastructure-patterns-i/
https://www.atlasofplaces.com/research/infrastructure-patterns-vii/
Atlas of Places is a public educational collection of Academia, Architecture, Cartography, Cinema, Essays, Painting, Photography and Research. Its objective is to question the meaning of places. It is curated according to continuously evolving philosophical, social and cultural beliefs. This is merely an occasional collection. Some works date from 1230, some from the recent past, some from the present. They have this characteristic in common that they are outlooks, in the truest sense of the word. In them will be found little more than the intention of clarifying a few ideas that might really be called political if that fine word, so attractive and exciting to the mind, did not arouse today so many great scruples and great repugnance.
Atlas of Places simply wishes to make a little clearer to itself the notions that it has received from others or that, like others, it has formed for itself — notions that everyone uses for thinking about human groups, their relations and difficulties with one another. The effort to clarify such matters is assuredly not the business of those men who practice or mix in them. This collection is the work of an amateur.
Atlas of Places is dedicated to those persons who have no system and belong to no party and are therefore still free to doubt whatever is doubtful and to maintain what is not.
Atlas of Places is curated day by day, the works shared do not pretend to show any organic development: the link between them is rather one of insistence and repetition. For while one doesn’t know whether things which are repeated are pleasing, one’s belief is that they are significant. And what is sought throughout this collection are significant features.
Atlas of Places produces cartography, satellite imagery and orthoimagery for exhibitions, editorial projects and various other mediums. This continuous production appears in the Research collection. If you wish to collaborate, please scroll down to the “Collaboration” section below.
Atlas of Places originated in the Pyrénées-Orientales during the summer of 2015 and is edited by Thomas Paturet.
The Voynichese project (VP) defines a simple syntax for querying words in the Voynich Manuscript. While this syntax is only used internally, by the VP's query processor, it's important to be aware of how it operates in order to effectively query the manuscript.
Note that, unlike most query languages, Voynichese queries are evaluated at the word level. As such, word delimiters like whitespace and punctuation are not allowed.
Voynichese queries may use the following characters:
a,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,v,x,y,z,*,^,$
The characters a-z each match the corresponding EVA character.
The wildcard character "*" matches one or more EVA characters. Note that the wildcard may also be represented as a dash "-", for example when used in an URL.
The "^" character matches the start of a word.
The "$" character matches the end of a word.
For example, the query ^daiin$ will exactly match the EVA word daiin, whereas the query daiin (excluding the ^ and $ symbols) will match any EVA word containing daiin, such as chodaiindy.
Hydra is a platform for live coding visuals, in which each connected browser window can be used as a node of a modular and distributed video synthesizer.
Built using WebRTC (peer-to-peer web streaming) and WebGL, hydra allows each connected browser/device/person to output a video signal or stream, and receive and modify streams from other browsers/devices/people. The API is inspired by analog modular synthesis, in which multiple visual sources (oscillators, cameras, application windows, other connected windows) can be transformed, modulated, and composited via combining sequences of functions.
Features:
Written in javascript and compatible with other javascript libraries
Available as a platform as well as a set of standalone modules
Cross-platform and requires no installation (runs in the browser)
Also available as a package for live coding from within atom text editor
Experimental and forever evolving !!
Cables is your model kit for creating beautiful interactive content. With an easy to navigate interface and results in real time, it allows for fast prototyping and prompt adjustments.
Working with cables is just as easy as creating cable spaghetti:
You are provided with a given set of operators such as mathematical functions, shapes and materials.
Connect these to each other using virtual cables to create the scene you have in mind.
Easily export your piece of work at any time. Embed it into your website or use it for any kind of creative installation.
Welcome to Exploring Technology, a wishful remedy to the increasing knowledge gap between machine builders and machine users.
Learn about :
A-Frame
Arduino
AxiDraw
Bitsy
Cables
Cinema 4D
Circuit
GitHub
Colab
Glitch
Hubs
Hydra
Laser Cutting
Lightform
Lights
Machine Learning
Makey Makey
NFT
Node
Photogrammetry
Processing
Projectors
Raspberry Pi
Resolume
Tone
Spark
Web
Drawing Bot is a free, open source software for converting images to line drawings for Plotters / Drawing Machines / 3D printers. It also serves as an application for visual artists to create stylised line drawings from images / video.
It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
If you want to support the development of DrawingBotV3 you can donate here or contribute to the Drawing Bot Collection!
Features
15 Path Finding Algorithms - all highly configurable to create unique drawing styles
Automatic Path Optimisation for Faster Plots - Line Simplifying, Merging, Filtering, Sorting
Pen Settings: configurable colour / stroke width / distribution weight / blend modes - perfect for multi-layered plots.
Image Sequences: You can export image sequences animations of your creations!
Version Control: Save your favourite versions as you go and reload them.
Project Saving & Loading
60+ Image Filters for pre processing the imported image
Automated CMYK separation
Advanced User Interface with live drawing preview
User configurable Drawing Area, with Padding / Scaling Modes
Special pens for Original Colour/Grayscale Sampling
Presets: can be saved/imported/exported for sharing different styles with other users
Exports can be exported per/pen or per/drawing in multiple file types
Batch Processing: Convert entire folders of images automatically.
GCode - configurable Drawing Area, XYZ Offsets / Auto Homing.
vpype IntegrationPath Finding Modules
Sketch Lines PFM
Sketch Curves PFM
Sketch Squares PFM
Sketch Quad Beziers PFM
Sketch Cubic Beziers PFM
Sketch Catmull-Roms PFM
Sketch Shapes PFM
Sketch Sobel Edges PFM
Spiral PFM
Voronoi Circles
Voronoi Triangulation
Voronoi Stippling
Voronoi Diagram
Mosaic Rectangles
Mosaic VoronoiMore info here
Supported File Types
Import Formats:
Images: [.tif, .tga, .png, .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .jpeg]
Export Formats:
Vectors: [.svg, .pdf],
Images/Image Sequences: [.tif, .tga, .png, .jpg, .jpeg]
GCode: [.gcode, .txt],
GCODE.Clay was first exhibited at Space 2214 in its inaugural exhibition investigating Pattern, Predictability, and Repetition , which explored the themes of repetition, and rote action—a defining peril of modernity. In this project, the unpredictability is the fundamental aspiration of the object making. Patterns emerge and disappear in the variations of the experiments explored.
Conceptual artist exploring our use of technology and its ethical and aesthetic implications.
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[EN] Filipe Vilas-Boas was born in Portugal in 1981. He is a self-taught conceptual artist currently living and working in Paris. Without being a naive tech utopist or a reluctant technophobe, he explores our use of technology and its ethical and aesthetic implications. His installations, performances and conceptual artworks question the global digitalization of our societies, mostly by merging our physical (IRL) and digital (URL) worlds.
His works were highlighted in the Portuguese Emerging Art Books, 2018 & 2019 Edition and have been shown internationally notably at Nuit Blanche Paris, the UNESCO, Biennale Siana, Le Cube, The French Ministry of Culture, Biennale Némo - Le 104 (FR), Athens Digital Art Festival, Monitor - Heraklion Contemporary Arts Festival (GR), Zaratan, MAAT Museum (PT) and at the Tate Modern (UK).
Luminous-Lint is used worldwide by curators, educators, photography students, photohistorians, collectors and photographers to better understand the many histories of photography.
Carefully curated list of awesome creative coding resources primarily for beginners/intermediates :
To the extent possible under law, Terkel Gjervig has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.
https://law.duke.edu/sites/default/files/centers/cspd/musiccomic/Theft.pdf
This comic lays out 2000 years of musical history. A neglected part of musical history. Again and again there have been attempts to police music; to restrict borrowing and cultural cross-fertilization. But music builds on itself. To those who think that mash-ups and sampling started with YouTube or the DJ’s turntables, it might be shocking to find that musicians have been borrowing—extensively borrowing—from each other since music began. Then why try to stop that process? The reasons varied. Philosophy, religion, politics, race—again and again, race—and law. And because music affects us so deeply, those struggles were passionate ones. They still are.
The history in this book runs from Plato to Blurred Lines and beyond. You will read about the Holy Roman Empire’s attempts to standardize religious music with the first great musical technology (notation) and the inevitable backfire of that attempt. You will read about troubadours and church composers, swapping tunes (and remarkably profane lyrics), changing both religion and music in the process. You will see diatribes against jazz for corrupting musical culture, against rock and roll for breaching the color-line. You will learn about the lawsuits that, surprisingly, shaped rap. You will read the story of some of music’s iconoclasts—from Handel and Beethoven to Robert Johnson, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Ray Charles, the British Invasion and Public Enemy.
To understand this history fully, one has to roam wider still—into musical technologies from notation to the sample deck, aesthetics, the incentive systems that got musicians paid, and law’s 250 year struggle to assimilate music, without destroying it in the process. Would jazz, soul or rock and roll be legal if they were reinvented today? We are not sure. Which as you will read, is profoundly worrying because today, more than ever, we need the arts.
All of this makes up our story. It is assuredly not the only history of music. But it is definitely a part—a fascinating part—of that history. We hope you like it.
Rutt-Etra-Izer is a WebGL emulation of the classic Rutt-Etra video synthesizer. This demo replicates the Z-displacement, scanned-line look of the original, but does not attempt to replicate it’s full feature set.
The demo allows you to drag and drop your own images, manipulate them and save the output. Images are generated by scanning the pixels of the input image from top to bottom, with scan-line separated by the ‘Line Separation’ amount. For each line generated, the z-position of the vertices is dependent on the brightness of the pixels.
20 alternative interfaces for creating and editing images and text
https://github.com/constraint-systems
Flow
An experimental image editor that lets you set and direct pixel-flows.
Fracture
Shatter and recombine images using a grid of viewports.
Tri
Tri is an experimental image distorter. You can choose an image to render using a WebGL quad, adjust the texture and position coordinates to create different distortions, and save the result.
Tile
Layout images using a tiling tree layout. Move, split, and resize images using keyboard controls.
Sift
Slice an image into multiple layers. You can offset the slices to create interference patterns and pseudo-3D effects.
Automadraw
Draw and evolve your drawing using cellular automata on a pixel grid with two keyboard-controlled cursors.
Span
Lay out and rearrange text, line by line, using keyboard controls.
Stamp
Image-paint from a source image palette using keyboard controls.
Collapse
Collapse an image into itself using ranked superpixels.
Res
Selectively pixelate an image using a compression algorithm.
Rgb
Pixel-paint using keyboard controls.
Face
Edit both the text and the font it is rendered in.
Pal
Apply an eight-color terminal color scheme to an image. Use the keyboard controls to choose a theme, set thresholds, and cycle hues.
Bix
Draw on binary to glitch text.
Diptych
Pixel-reflow an image to match the dimensions of your text. Save the result as a diptych.
Slide
Divide and slide-stretch an image using keyboard controls.
Freeconfig
Push around image pixels in blocks.
Moire
Generate angular skyscapes using Asteroids-like ship controls.
Hex
A keyboard-driven, grid-based drawing tool.
Etch
A keyboard-based pixel drawing tool.
About
Constraint Systems is a collection of experimental web-based creative tools. They are an ongoing attempt to explore alternative ways of interacting with pixels and text on a computer screen. I hope to someday build these ideas into something larger, but the plan for now is to keep the scopes small and the releases quick.
New Art City’s mission is to develop an accessible toolkit for building virtual installations that show born-digital artifacts alongside digitized works of traditional media.
Our curation and product design prioritize those who are disadvantaged by structural injustice. An inclusive and redistributive community is as important to our project as the toolkit itself.
All Sci Fi novels published since 1900 were scraped from Good Reads, and for each novel, all reader comments, plot descriptions, and user-generated tags were compiled. Keywords and concepts were added to each novel by parsing the text described above and mapping them to a curated dictionary of SciFi keywords and concepts. 2,633 novels published since 1990 had at least 50 reviews and contained at least one keyword from the keyword corpus.
After keyword enhancement, a book network was created by linking novels if they share similar keyword. Network clusters identify Keyword Themes - or groups of similar books that are labeled most commonly shared keywords in the group.
The network was generated using the open source python 'tag2network' package, and visualized here using 'openmappr''. The scripts for analyzing this dataset are available at https://github.com/ericberlow/SciFi
This is a collaborative project of Bethanie Maples, Srini Kadamati, and Eric Berlow
NOTE - This visualization performs best in Chrome and Safari browsers full screen - and is not optimized for the small screens of mobile devices.
How to Navigate this Network:
Click on any node to to see more details about it.
Click the whitespace or 'Reset' button to clear any selection.
Use the Snapshots panel to navigate between views.
Use the Filters panel to select nodes by any combination of attributes.
Click the 'Subset' button to restrict the data to the selected nodes - The Filters panel will then show a summary of that subset.
Use the List panel to see a sortable list of any nodes selected or subset. You can also browse their details one by one by clicking on them in the list.
This timeline is the result of researching the origins of digital paint and draw software, and the tools that were developed to allow for hand manipulation (versus plotter drawn) drawing and painting - the mouse, light pen & drawing tablet. If we look at the software that has become commonplace today (such as adobe photoshop), which allows for painting, animation and photo manipulation in one, we can trace the roots of this software to the University and Corporate Labs that housed large computers with advanced capabilities for their time - MIT Lincoln Labs & Radiation Labs, DARPA & the Augmented Research Centre (ARC), Bell Labs, NYIT’s Computer Graphics Lab, Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (Xerox PARC), NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL). The artistic collaborations that grew out of these labs fueled the advent of Computer Graphics, Computer Art and Video Art from the 1960's to the 1990's.
This visual timeline starts by tracing the paint systems, frame buffers, and graphic user interfaces created out of these labs, with a focus on the first paint/draw software and the various drawing tools. I am interested in how the larger corporate, and often Military Funded laboratories, effected the dawn of the personal computer and the introduction of the personal computer to the home. This timeline continues through the 1980’s, with a focus on the software and hardware that was developed for the home market from late 1970's to the 1990's.
EmotiBit is a wearable sensor module for capturing high-quality emotional, physiological, and movement data. Easy-to-use and scientifically-validated sensing lets you enjoy wireless data streaming to any platform or direct data recording to the built-in SD card. Customize the Arduino-compatible hardware and fully open-source software to meet any project needs!
OPENRNDR is a tool to create tools. It is an open source framework for creative coding, written in Kotlin for the Java VM that simplifies writing real-time interactive software. It fully embraces its existing infrastructure of (open source) libraries, editors, debuggers and build tools. It is designed and developed for prototyping as well as the development of robust performant visual and interactive applications. It is not an application, it is a collection of software components that aid the creation of applications.
Key features
a light weight application framework to quickly get you started
a fast OpenGL 3.3 backed drawer written using the LWJGL OpenGL bindings
a set of minimal and clean APIs that welcome programming in a modern style
an extensive shape drawing and manipulation API
asynchronous image loading
runs on Windows, MacOS and LinuxEcosystem
Applications written in OPENRNDR can communicate with third-party tools and services, either using OPENRNDR’s functionality or via third-party Java libraries.
Existing use cases involve connectivity with devices such as Arduino, Philips Kinet, Microsoft Kinect 2.0, RealSense, DMX, ARTNet and Midi devices; applications that communicate through OpenSoundControl; services such as weather reports and Twitter. If you want to experiment with Machine Learning, try RunwayML that comes with an OPENRNDR integration.
A platform for interactive spaces, interactive environments, interactive objects and prototyping.
tramontana leverages the capabilities of the object that we have all come to carry with us anywhere, all the time, our smartphones. With libraries for Processing, Javascript and openFrameworks you can access the inputs and outputs of one or more smartphones to easily and quickly prototype interactive spaces, connected products or just something you’d like to be wireless. What used to involve complex tasks like networking, native app development, etc. can now be created with a single sketch on your computer.
All The Tropes is a community-edited wiki website dedicated to discussing Creators, Works, and Tropes -- the people, projects and patterns of creative writing in all kinds of entertainment: television, literature, movies, video games, and more.
Hello my dear friend,
I found a strange game on my computer a few days ago. I have tried to find out how it works but have failed in all my attempts. I hope you have more luck than I have. Please tell me if you can figure it out, because I think it's driving me C̷̖̆͊R̸̢̮̍Å̵̘̪̚Z̴͔̲̈́Ỳ̸̒ͅ. I'm sure the guide holds the key to solving it, but if not, you can always have some fun with the sinuous movements of the strange creatures that live in this game. I hope you enjoy it.
With love,
@beleitax
Can I use the art I find here? How should I credit the artist?
Yes, you can use any of the art submitted to this site. Even in commercial projects. Just be sure to adhere to the license terms. Artists often indicate how they would like to be credited in the "Copyright/Attribution Notice:" section of the submission. You can find this between the submission's description and the list of downloadable files. If no Copyright/Attribution Notice instructions are given, a good way to credit an author for any asset is to put the following text in your game's credits file and on your game's credits screen:
"[asset name]" by [author name] licensed [license(s)]: [asset url]For example:
"Whispers of Avalon: Grassland Tileset" by Leonard Pabin licensed CC-BY 3.0, GPL 2.0, or GPL 3.0: https://opengameart.org/node/3009OpenGameArt Search + Reverse Image Search
Hint: Start search term with http(s):// for reverse image search.
The Collections database consists of entries for more than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix. Updated on a daily basis, it is the result of the continuous research and documentation efforts carried out by teams of experts from both museums.
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Creates an infinite remix of an audio file by finding musically similar beats and computing a randomized play path through them. The default choices should be suitable for a variety of musical styles. This work is inspired by the Infinite Jukebox (http://www.infinitejuke.com) project creaeted by Paul Lamere
It groups musically similar beats of a song into clusters and then plays a random path through the song that makes musical sense, but not does not repeat. It will do this infinitely.
What is Unmixer?
Unmixer does two things: first, it lets you extract loops from any song; second, it lets you remix these loops in a simple interface.
How do I use it?
Upload a song: drag and drop an audio file (MP3, MP4) into the box with the dotted line
Wait for results: processing a new song can take several minutes.
Remix the loops: turn each sound on and off by clicking the box.
Upload more songs: you can mash-up sounds from as many songs as you like.Extra features:
The BPM indicator in the top right lets you choose the global tempo.
The download button allows you to save a zipfile of all the loops, along with a map of where they occur in the piece.
Neural Cellular Automata (NCA We use NCA to refer to both Neural Cellular Automata and Neural Cellular Automaton.) are capable of learning a diverse set of behaviours: from generating stable, regenerating, static images , to segmenting images , to learning to “self-classify” shapes . The inductive bias imposed by using cellular automata is powerful. A system of individual agents running the same learned local rule can solve surprisingly complex tasks. Moreover, individual agents, or cells, can learn to coordinate their behavior even when separated by large distances. By construction, they solve these tasks in a massively parallel and inherently degenerate Degenerate in this case refers to the biological concept of degeneracy. way. Each cell must be able to take on the role of any other cell - as a result they tend to generalize well to unseen situations.
In this work, we apply NCA to the task of texture synthesis. This task involves reproducing the general appearance of a texture template, as opposed to making pixel-perfect copies. We are going to focus on texture losses that allow for a degree of ambiguity. After training NCA models to reproduce textures, we subsequently investigate their learned behaviors and observe a few surprising effects. Starting from these investigations, we make the case that the cells learn distributed, local, algorithms.
To do this, we apply an old trick: we employ neural cellular automata as a differentiable image parameterization .
Simon Popper, Ulysses, [a reinterpretation of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) rearranging all the words in the original book in alphabetical order], Privately Printed by Die Keure, Brugge/Bruges, 2006, Limited Edition of 1000 [Motto Books, Geneva]
Welcome to the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. This work-in-progress is a comprehensive quotation-based dictionary of the language of science fiction. The HD/SF is an offshoot of a project begun by the Oxford English Dictionary (though it is no longer formally affiliated with it). It is edited by Jesse Sheidlower.
Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
What will you create?
The Standard Ebooks project is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks. The text and cover art in our ebooks is already believed to be in the public domain, and Standard Ebooks dedicates its own work to the public domain, thus releasing the entirety of each ebook file into the public domain. All the ebooks we produce are distributed free of cost and free of U.S. copyright restrictions.
The Hidden Palace is a community dedicated to the preservation of video game development media
Enter the Open Library Explorer, Cami’s new experiment for browsing more than 4 million books in the Internet Archive’s Open Library. Still in beta, Open Library Explorer is able to harness the Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress classification systems to recreate virtually the experience of browsing the bookshelves at a physical library. Open Library Explorer enables readers to scan bookshelves left to right by subject, up and down for subclassifications. Switch a filter and suddenly the bookshelves are full of juvenile books. Type in “subject: biography” and you see nothing but biographies arranged by subject matter.
Why recreate a physical library experience in your browser?
Now that classrooms and libraries are once again shuttered, families are turning online for their educational and entertainment needs. With demand for digital books at an all-time high, the Open Library team was inspired to give readers something closer to what they enjoy in the physical world. Something that puts the power of discovery back into the hands of patrons.
Escaping the Algorithmic Bubble
One problem with online platforms is the way they guide you to new content. For music, movies, or books, Spotify, Netflix and Amazon use complicated recommendation algorithms to suggest what you should encounter next. But those algorithms are driven by the media you have already consumed. They put you into a “filter bubble” where you only see books similar to those you’ve already read. Cami and his team devised the Open Library Explorer as an alternative to recommendation engines. With the Open Library Explorer, you are free to dive deeper and deeper into the stacks. Where you go is driven by you, not by an algorithm..
Zoom out to get an ever expanding view of your library
Change the setting to make your books 3D, so you can see just how thick each volume is.
Cool New Features
By clicking on the Settings gear, you can customize the look and feel of your shelves. Hit the 3D options and you can pick out the 600-page books immediately, just by the thickness of the spine. When a title catches your eye, click on the book to see whether Open Library has an edition you can preview or borrow. For more than 4 million books, borrowing a copy in your browser is just a few clicks away.
Ready to enter the library? Click here, and be sure to share feedback so the Open Library team can make it even better.
Download :https://github.com/Tw1ddle/geometrize/releases
Features
Recreate images as geometric primitives.
Start with hundreds of images with preset settings.
Export geometrized images to SVG, PNG, JPG, GIF and more.
Export geometrized images as HTML5 canvas or WebGL webpages.
Export shape data as JSON for use in custom projects and creations.
Control the algorithm at the core of Geometrize with ChaiScript scripts.The papers summarized here are mainly from 2017 onwards.
Please refer to the Survey paper(Image Aesthetic Assessment:An Experimental Survey) before 2016.
Optical illusions don’t “trick the eye” nor “fool the brain”, nor reveal that “our brain sucks”, … but are fascinating!
They also teach us about our visual perception, and its limitations. My selection emphazises beauty and interactive experiments; I also attempt explanations of the underlying visual mechanisms where possible.
Returning visitor? Check →here for History/News
»Optical illusion« sounds derogative, as if exposing a malfunction of the visual system. Rather, I view these phenomena as highlighting particular good adaptations of our visual system to its experience with standard viewing situations. These experiences are based on normal visual conditions, and thus under unusual contexts can lead to inappropriate interpretations of a visual scene (=“Bayesian interpretation of perception”).
If you are not a vision scientist, you might find my explanations too highbrow. That is not on purpose, but vision research simply is not trivial, like any science. So, if an explanation seems gibberish, simply enjoy the phenomenon 😉.
As an editorial and curatorial platform, HOLO explores disciplinary interstices and entangled knowledge as epicentres of critical creative practice, radical imagination, research, and activism
