http://draves.org/blog/ Scott Draves software and artwork updates, public appearances, photographs, and mindless link propagation. ]]> en-us blog@draves.org 2008-05-16T14:14:20-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://draves.org/blog/archives/000567.html To try out the latest Electric Sheep client for Linux (developed under Ubuntu 8.04), follow the directions on the forum.... 567@http://draves.org/blog/ REL 2008-05-16T14:14:20-08:00 http://draves.org/blog/archives/000566.html A private salon I had with John F Simon Jr and Anakin Koenig last Sunday got covered by Art Comments. What fine company, thanks Peter Duhon!... 566@http://draves.org/blog/ 2008-05-13T11:19:35-08:00 http://draves.org/blog/archives/000565.html mythical sirens summer night, feral beauty in a deep purple garden, blossoming to midnight fireworks Mythical Sirens Summer Night is a decorative theme for Mozilla Firefox browser, by Laura Cesari, featuring an Electric Sheep throbber by Coppercat:... 565@http://draves.org/blog/ BSP 2008-05-07T11:20:19-08:00 http://draves.org/blog/archives/000564.html Intel has a profile of me and the Electric Sheep up Intel.com. They have a whole collection of cool stuff in their new consumer oriented web site.... 564@http://draves.org/blog/ BSP 2008-05-06T16:32:02-08:00 http://draves.org/blog/archives/000563.html On the East Coast there's one summer festival that's legendary for good vibes: Gaian Mind. I am pleased to announce that this year I'll be performing as a VJ on the main stage, and bringing the Electric Sheep's Dreams... 563@http://draves.org/blog/ BSP 2008-05-06T15:27:31-08:00 http://draves.org/blog/archives/000562.html I am extremely pleased to announce that Isabel Walcott Hilborn is working with me as my Business Manager. She is a godsend. It would be a great pleasure to celebrate her here in words, but to do the subject justice... 562@http://draves.org/blog/ BSP 2008-04-27T20:30:32-08:00 http://draves.org/blog/archives/000561.html The Center for Visual Music has curated The Firebird into Essential Visual Music: New Visions. It will be screened on Friday, May 30 at 7pm at International House in Philidelphia. The Firebird is a 4:15 2400x2400 resolution Sheep sequence with... 561@http://draves.org/blog/ BSP 2008-04-27T18:00:42-08:00 http://draves.org/blog/archives/000560.html I am very pleased to announce an alpha version of the fractal flame renderer is available that uses GPU acceleration. The code is under the GPL and can be downloaded from Sourceforge. Many thanks to Steve/Keldor for writing and releasing... 560@http://draves.org/blog/ BSP 2008-04-10T19:24:18-08:00 http://draves.org/blog/archives/000559.html Download FLAM3 v2.7.11 here. The big news is support for 64 bits per pixel (16 bits per channel), doubling the color resolution. That means 65536 shades of gray instead of 256. This is intended to support external Tone Mapping algorithms,... 559@http://draves.org/blog/ REL 2008-04-05T14:05:01-08:00 http://draves.org/blog/archives/000558.html My friend Nick passed me a link to a blog which led me to this paper, and then an article, and finally the obligatory wikipedia entry. Pretty soon we are reading about Einstein, Mandelbrot, Pollock, the Central Limit Theorem,... 558@http://draves.org/blog/ MLP 2008-03-26T19:13:58-08:00 http://draves.org/blog/archives/000557.html A new installment On Lisa Rein's Radar, including NIN music/video she recorded at the opening of the Sheep Vortex. previously.... 557@http://draves.org/blog/ BSP 2008-03-26T18:26:08-08:00 http://draves.org/blog/archives/000556.html Snapshots from premiere of Sheep Vortex.... 556@http://draves.org/blog/ PIX 2008-03-21T17:01:37-08:00 http://draves.org/blog/archives/000555.html I just gave a lecture/panel at Life 2.0 in Second Life. Previous speakers included Mitch Kapor and Eben Moglen. Somatika and I spoke about the Electric Sheep and the Sheep Vortex our interactive installation. Gallery from the talk, and another... 555@http://draves.org/blog/ BSP 2008-03-21T16:31:02-08:00 http://draves.org/blog/archives/000554.html Get it here. Changelog: Fixed interpolation bug when magnitude of rotation/scaling component of affine transform is 0. Replaced secant variation with more flame-friendly secant2 (eliminates gap in y direction, scales y-coordinate by weight). Warning message now printed when unrecognized variation... 554@http://draves.org/blog/ REL 2008-03-19T20:02:08-08:00 http://draves.org/blog/archives/000553.html There's a new flame editor, apophysis-j by Jean-François Bouzereau. It's written in Java so it should run on Mac, Linux, and Windows. And it's distributed under the GPL. Thanks JFB!... 553@http://draves.org/blog/ BSP 2008-03-18T12:46:26-08:00