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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 2 images "There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." — Leonard Cohen #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #Mountains #Alps #Dolomites #Autumn #Color #Forest #Larches #Light
#forestfriday #throwbackthursday
20h ago
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image Magic Karwendel (on an early morning around 720 days ago) #MountainMonday #NoirCountry #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite #Photography #CloudAppreciation #Alps #Lake
on Mon, 8PM
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Wonderful 30min ambient live performance by loscil from 2015 with haunting sounds, atmos and moods which go straight under your skin... loscil - Nomadic Streams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_fHWXxryfk #Music4Coding
on Sat, 9PM
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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#HowToThing #Epilogue #LongRead: After 66 days of addressing 30 wildly varied use cases and building ~20 new example projects of varying complexity to illustrate how #ThingUmbrella libraries can be used & combined, I'm taking a break to concentrate on other important thi.ngs... With this...
on Nov 4
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 4 images Like many other of my photographer/artist friends at this time of the year, for the first time I too am considering selling one or two calendars[*] with my work: The first one would be featuring more or less abstract landscape photography of the (often quite surprisingly...
on Sep 22
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image Updated the example and added a new param editor generating canvas-based GUI widgets (incl. XY pads & ramp/curve editor), using https://thi.ng/imgui instead of HTML components to control params (however, the GUI aspects are entirely just for illustration & testing purposes)....
on Sep 5
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Attached: 1 image Overwhelmed at/by Gavarnie. Unforgettable! #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Mountains #Pyrenees #Waterfall #Hiking
on Aug 28
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image Lake view #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Lake #Fog
on Aug 28
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image Porting more fave UI/UX concepts from my old projects (here, from 2005)... Shocked that the new implementation of this fisheye menu component is only ~40 lines of code, incl. support for mouse & touch interaction and keyboard navigation too... (Also see [1] for another...
on Aug 28
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image New #ThingUmbrella example (#172): Interactive visualization of low-discrepancy samples using https://thi.ng/viz, https://thi.ng/hiccup-svg, https://thi.ng/lowdisc, https://thi.ng/rdom & https://thi.ng/rdom-forms The example also demonstrates combining multiple plots and uses...
on Aug 28
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1.3K Posts, 552 Following, 2.64K Followers · Interdisciplinary open so(u)rcery, computational art/craft/design, landscape photography, electronic music, education. See pinned toots for more info! Unless stated otherwise, all published images/media (except boosts/linked content) is my own work...
on Jul 7
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image Last night I cleared out the 10k+ screenshots & recordings (~24GB) taken during the past few months of #Marblemania dev... Even though the piece is about the movement/evolution of these fluid shapes, here's an unsorted collection of 200 work-in-progress stills (duration...
on Jul 7
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image Some of you think this is probably vaporware by now, but there actually has been a 2D/3D mesh package since 2016, which for various reasons has been dormant for the past few years, since I never got around refactoring & publishing it properly, mostly because some of the...
on Jun 25
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 4 images Testing/debugging the dynamic tessellation feature of the upcoming thi.ng/geom-webgl interop package... This will provide a single polymorphic function to convert https://thi.ng/geom shapes into WebGL binary data & model/attribute specs, with lots of options for memory...
on Jun 22
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image Started today 12 years ago: Commissioned by Victoria & Albert Museum London: Victorian-esque ornamental laser-cut 2-panel room dividers (2.20 meters tall), covered in 620 hand folded paper cones, acting as projection mapping surface for animated patterns... Design,...
on May 25
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 4 images Just been checking some of my fave webcams in the Alps for the aurora. Some highlights: Konkordia (Jungfraujoch/Aletsch glacier): https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/konkordiahuette/2024/05/11/0030 Zugspitze (w/...
on May 11
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 4 images New year, new energy, new experiences… 22km, 450 elevation meters, a good warmup for the season and what an amazing evening! Spring is finally here! The best bit: At the end, the longest downhill ride in years (~25 mins nonstop) … please don’t ask about the uphill struggle!...
on Apr 29
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image Fantasy console update: Just added & polished some more of these examples from last year and you can play with them here: https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/fantasy-console/ Instructions: - Press `1` - `6` to select/launch/reset any of the examples - Press `Space` to download...
on Apr 24
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 video Starting next Monday, over the next 3 weeks I'll be teaching a "Creative computing within limits" #Workshop at University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg. There's a lot of important conceptual ground to cover (a lot of semi-forgotten history too!) and for some parts we'll be...
on Apr 24
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Just updated all https://thi.ng/wasm-api packages, bindgen, build scripts, readmes and examples to be compatible with the brand new Zig v0.12.0 released a couple of days ago... This includes adapting to breaking changes (esp. Zig's build system) and updating the hybrid Zig/WASM/TypeScript...
on Apr 23
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 4 images Current obsession: #ThinSection #Minerals polarized light #Microscopy 😍 Fully aware it's way more common/popular to cite early/mid 20th century artists/designers/movements as inspiration/reference in contemporary #GenerativeArt, but I've always had _zero_ interest in those...
on Apr 12
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image Where inspiration for my #GenerativeArt comes from... #Geology #Alps #Allgäu
on Apr 12
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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@jack@berlin.social I was and still am working on chapters/tutorials, but stopped several times in the past year for different reasons, also because none of the platforms available are supporting the mix of code/media/interactivity/sidenotes/hypertext I’m envisioning for this project (so I’ve...
on Mar 7
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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#ThingUmbrella readme/example tip: If you've got a local clone of the Git repo[1] and have everything built (via `yarn build`), you can then run: `yarn doc:readme` to re-generate the readme files of all packages and extract various code examples[2] into runnable TypeScript source files. In...
on Mar 3
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Btw. It was also #ReleaseSunday yesterday and as a direct & immediate result from a good criticism received via the community survey, I've updated all 350+ code snippets in 275+ source files/docs of all 190 https://thi.ng/umbrella libraries. Each snippet now includes imports for all...
on Mar 3
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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‼️ Announcing the thi.ng user survey 2024 📋 https://forms.gle/XacbSDEmQMPZg8197 **To achieve a better sample size, I'd highly appreciate if you could circulate the link to this survey in your own networks.** It's already been almost 9 years since the last user survey for these projects....
on Mar 2
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image One step closer to nice _animated_ plots/dataviz in the terminal (here only 8 unicode box drawing characters and 110+ handmade additive color blend rules for 15 ANSI colors, still refining white handling)... cc/ @daeinc@genart.social #DataViz #Plot #ASCIIArt #ANSI #Colors...
on Feb 21
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image Mountains crave (hat tip Anna Von Hausswolff) #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Hiking #Alps
on Jan 1
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image No fishing. #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #WinterWonderland #Lake
on Jan 1
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image Wetterspitzen shrouded in clouds (October 2021) #SilentSunday #NoirCountry #LandscapePhotography #Alps
on Jan 1
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image A short spell of Golden hour light over Heiterwanger See #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Austria #Alps
on Jan 1
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 4 images More pictures from today's hike (👆)... #LandscapePhotography #Hiking #Alps #WildWednesday
on Jan 1
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image Schneck. Yesterday, 2 months ago, in golden autumn light. One of the most unique mountains in the Northern Alps... #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Mountains #Hiking #Alps #Bavaria
on Jan 1
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 4 images Truly magical experience, light and frozen fog on our winter walk last night. Simply stunning! -10℃, walking a few kilometers through knee-deep fresh powder snow, thick frozen fog drifting around us, diffusing the last light and creating surreal (almost cliché)...
on Jan 1
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image Oeschinensee, my ❤️! #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
on Jan 1
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 4 images A day in the mountains feels like a week in the low lands... #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Alps #AlpenGlühen #Hiking #CoburgerHütte #Sonnenspitze #Zugspitze #Wetterstein
on Jan 1
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 4 images Walking the line. One of my fave hikes in the Ammergauer Alps, the ridge towards Große Klammspitz. Grand views, steep slopes, snow fields & rock sections to traverse, sore muscles & lots of wild life encounters on that walk last year: Ibexes, chamois, deers, frogs and super...
on Jan 1
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Attached: 1 image Rocky path, beautiful & rewarding. No December colors, but taken on our last hike of the year yesterday @ Pürschling south wall... #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #Hiking #Alps #Colors
on Jan 1
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 2 images #SilentSunday double-take: ...from the same hike (2 days ago) as earlier pics at beginning of this thread #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Alps #Sonnenspitze #Drachenkopf #Hiking
on Jan 1
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Today is a great day to introduce (or remind) people to Geoffrey Jones' classic short film Snow (1963, 8mins long) about the British Rail system dealing with an exceedingly heavy winter — superbly edited as series of accelerating, interleaved short sequences perfectly cut to the music. Visual...
on Dec 4
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 1 image #HowToThing #023 — Responsive & reactive image gallery with tag-based Jaccard similarity ranking/filtering using https://thi.ng/bitfield, https://thi.ng/rstream & https://thi.ng/rdom A quite common comment about #ThingUmbrella is that people often have little idea what some...
on Nov 3, 2023
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 4 images #HowToThing #024 — 2.5D hidden line DEM heightmap visualization featuring: image pre-filtering (customizable gaussian blur), bicubic subpixel image sampling, timesliced geometry generation and hidden line clipping, canvas drawing & SVG export from the same source geometry...
on Nov 3, 2023
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 3 images #HowToThing #030 — Procedural, rule-based & stochastic text generation using a custom DSL, parse grammar (via https://thi.ng/parse) and abstract syntax tree transformation (via https://thi.ng/defmulti). Since it's #NaNoWriMo & #NaNoGenMo [1], I'm closing out this first...
on Nov 3, 2023
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 4 images #HowToThing #021 — Iterative animated convex polygon subdivision and heat map visualization (using poly area as metric) The main aspect of this example is to show various https://thi.ng/geom shape types, operations & conversions to solve the problem of iteratively dividing...
on Nov 3, 2023
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 3 images #HowToThing #025 — Sampling, fitting, transforming & plotting 10k data points per frame using a whole bunch of underexposed thi.ng packages: - https://thi.ng/colored-noise: using violet noise as fake data source - https://thi.ng/matrices: fitting/transformation matrix...
on Nov 3, 2023
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Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)
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Attached: 2 images #HowToThing #027 — Boid/flocking simulation with spatial indexing, configurable behaviors and neighborhood queries to visualize proximity. Key packages: - https://thi.ng/boids: n-dimensional boid simulation with highly configurable behaviors - https://thi.ng/timestep:...
on Nov 3, 2023