October 27, 2006
Spidrons
Spidrons are
polygonal spirals that fit together and fold up in intricate and beautiful ways.
Science News
has a story explaining their construction and their history back to a Budapest printing house. Oh but where are the animations? Interactive software?thanks Mark L.
October 18, 2006
Piksel and Fjord
I was honored to attend Piksel, an annual
conference devoted to hacking, software, pixels, and art. It runs for
most of a week in Bergen on the west coast
of Norway. The
conference includes technical presentations, an art exhibition,
audiovisual performances, and lots of drinking and smoking.
Afterwards I took a day-trip out to see the famous fjords.
The gallery.
HiFiDreeams at SFLNC at Supperclub
The Dreams in High Fidelity will be exhibited at this benefit dinner tonight:
Hey San Francisco!
I hope that you can join us T ODAY to celebrate the truly amazing entertainment community we have in San Francisco and support the Late Night Coalition. The party is Wednesday October 18, 2006 at SupperClub located on 657 Harrison Street between 2nd and 3rd Streets in San Francisco. D irections at www.supperclub.com.
Cocktails begin at 7 with dinner seating until 8. If you can't make the dinner, join us for the after-party from 11pm-2am . And, of course, if you can't make it at all, we will be sad to miss you but you can donate to the great work of the SFLNC by going to www.sflncparty.com and clicking on donate.
Guest Speakers: California State Assembly Member Mark Leno, SF Supervisor Fiona Ma & SF Supervisor Chris Daly
Live Entertainment all night featuring: Kerri Kresinski, Marisa Lenhardt, Members of Xeno, Kitten on the Keys, Kepi & Kat, Miranda Caroligne!
Astounding Sights and Sounds provided by: Spot Draves and VJ III DJ s: PussPuss, Ellen Ferrato, Adnan, Smoove, Laird, JT Donaldson and M3
Master chef Jon Stevens and his team serve up five light courses inspired by French and Italian techniques, each cleverly and most beautifully composed to please your palate.
Reserve your spot today - $250.00 per person includes complimentary wine.
After-dinner 11pm-2am Event is just $5-$10 sliding scale! ...for some of the hottest DJs and people SF has to offer!!!
October 05, 2006
Piksel06
Next week I'm headed to Bergen Norway to speak about the Sheep at this conference:
Piksel06 - Hardware Politics - festival for free / libre and open source audiovisual SW, HW and ART. 12 -15 october 2006 in Bergen, Norway. 70 participants from 20 countries gather in Bergen for 4 days of exchanging art, code and ideas based on practical implementations of free culture. Piksel is an annual event for artists and developers working with free and open source audiovisual software. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, by the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (BEK) and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free and open source software. The theme of Piksel06 - 'hardware politics' - brings in open hardware as a new focus area of vital importance in the fight for freedom of information and independent artistic expression in the digital domain. Programme: WORKSHOPS @ Teknikerkroen -- http://www.piksel.no/piksel06/workshops.html Go Forth! - build your own cheap synth from scratch LiveCoding using Fluxus CircuitBending audio toys Chaos Micromedias project Howto build suneaters (solar-panel bots) SEMINAR @ Cinemateket, USF -- http://www.piksel.no/piksel06/seminar.html xxxxx_at_piksel, 13-14 October, Cinemateket USF Two days of seminar, discussion and highly practical interrogation of expanded software and the impact of the executable on necessarily open hardware as a political act. EXHIBITION @ Hordaland Kunstsenter -- http://www.piksel.no/piksel06/exhibition.html Damaged Goods, exhibition @ 13-29 October, Hordaland Kunstsenter HARDDISKO, ShockBot, Very Slow Scan TV, OverheadBots, MyArtpiece, Magnetic Identity Liberation Front, Drawing by numbers, Association of experimental electronics, The ball in the hole, project289, Frida V -- 'army of darkness', Gullibloon, live @ opening oct. 13 -- LIVE PERFORMANCES @ Teknikerkroen & Cinemateket, USF -- http://www.piksel.no/piksel06/live_acts.html Whitehouse, NANOFAMAS, Laase Marhaug, Daniel Skoglund, 5VOLTCORE, EMI Project, Audun Eriksen, elpueblodechina & d.R.e.G.S., Slick Lister, Dave Griffiths, Marloes de Valk, Aymeric Mansoux, Tom Schouten, bL0bJ0b, Malte Steiner, RAM microsystems, Chun Lee, Gisle Frøysland, Cooking Pure Data, PRESENTATIONS @ Teknikerkroen & Cinemateket, USF -- http://www.piksel.no/piksel06/talks.html PulseCode, Open Movie Editor, FLOSS Manuals, Electric Sheep, GEGL & babl, DesireData, NamShub , Emulating Early Video Synthesizers with Pure Data, KeyWorx/live, The PureData Documentation Project, Mirra, Pure:Dyne, MakeArt, Really Free Movie Exhibition, Cinema Solubile -- more info and complete programme: http://www.piksel.no/piksel06
October 01, 2006
Volumetric Fractal rendered on Sun Grid
Don Casteel has implemented a volumetric fractal IFS renderer
that runs on Sun's Grid Compute Utility.
Resolution was 128x128x128 voxels, then ray traced at 480x360 pixels
and one ray per pixel. It took 13 CPU hours, 3 real-time to render.
This isn't the first 3D IFS program (i did one in 1990) and certainly not the prettiest (see XenoDream and Chaoscope) but as far as i know it is the first to handle transparency and occlusion. Congratulations Don, very promising work!
Update: Don has made another, better animation with his software, see it here.