Posts by sejo@merveilles.town
(DIR) Post #AB5VMzkq5j83TgGElc by sejo@merveilles.town
2021-09-06T14:38:28Z
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my weekend went almost without computers.practically the only "breaks" i took were to read posts from The Seneca Effect https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/ (thanks :merveilles: for the recommendation :)
(DIR) Post #AB7pqys0KZqmp06kaW by sejo@merveilles.town
2021-09-07T17:38:24Z
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exciting, overwhelming, inspiring, mindblowing, emotive reading - i had no idea about the wolfram physics project!https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/#theLibrary thanks @xj9 for indirectly making me aware of it :)
(DIR) Post #ABAeUZIT4EbUXVNvjU by sejo@merveilles.town
2021-09-08T23:58:48Z
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drafting some ideas for the qiudanz technique [1], in order to apply to slomoco [2]> qiudanz technique: computational transformation of movement sequences within a constrained movement vocabulary. [1] https://compudanzas.net/qiudanz_technique.html[2] https://moco21.movementcomputing.org/submissions/cfp/#theWorkshop
(DIR) Post #ABODWLk5V62dPIiLke by sejo@merveilles.town
2021-09-15T03:39:11Z
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speaking of pong (?):my proposal for POÑG, a large-scale digital videogame with logic provided by human operators manipulating electrical switches, was (again) not accepted for this art grant for "young creators" in mexico. i guess they mean something else when having a category for "new technologies" 😅😂i feel-think that if it wasn't for merveilles, i would have decided by now that i'm "out of my mind" for trying to bring that project (and adjacent ones) to life (?) :merveilles:
(DIR) Post #ABpsIzS83PdqWejbFo by sejo@merveilles.town
2021-09-28T23:21:06Z
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thinking about lemon batteries and the mystery of electricity [and life, the universe, everything]
(DIR) Post #AD2BnAoEmlqybs4qZM by sejo@merveilles.town
2021-11-03T19:57:56Z
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outlining a first workshop to learn and practice mode 1 of the @compudanzas #qiudanz technique! playing with movement sequences, and computationally transforming them. i wonder if some people here would like to join us and test it :)https://compudanzas.net/qiudanz_mode_1.htmlgemini://compudanzas.net/qiudanz_mode_1.gmi#theWorkshop
(DIR) Post #ADOrMkTBl3oHDPjolE by sejo@merveilles.town
2021-11-14T18:30:08Z
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suddenly, the intro to #uxn programming online workshop is around the corner! :babycastles:Babycastles Academy: Intro to Uxn Programming :tealheart: Next Sunday, November 21, 12021, at 3pm UTC-5 (EST) https://withfriends.co/event/13004513/babycastles_academy_intro_to_uxn_programmingi wonder who has registered already :)
(DIR) Post #AENoiBCHKoLsZLRq4W by sejo@merveilles.town
2021-12-14T03:04:25Z
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making some progress! the metadata files and basic tree structure for the epub are now generated from the gempub index file.all of this happening from a single awk invocation, thanks to several tips by @alderwick :)https://tildegit.org/sejo/g2ethe main missing part is the gemtext to (x)html conversion, but i already have some awk code for that#theWorkshop
(DIR) Post #AFHyeR2cq0eNpf1kYa by sejo@merveilles.town
2022-01-08T02:20:04Z
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finished revising the seven days of the #uxn tutorial :tealheart: next step: converting it into a gempub/epub publication! #theWorkshop
(DIR) Post #AFHyeRXoy1bVOPcfBI by sejo@merveilles.town
2022-01-08T23:59:34Z
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finally giving myself some time to make these small illustrations for each of the sections of the #uxn tutorial :)#theWorkshop
(DIR) Post #AFHyeS6urXg19G2gsq by sejo@merveilles.town
2022-01-09T21:10:54Z
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the 'introduction to #uxn programming' ebook is now published! you can get it in #epub, #gempub and #mobi formats!https://compudanzas.itch.io/introduction-to-uxn-programming :tealheart: by buying the book, you help to support @compudanzas and our projects! thank you @neauoire @alderwick @exquisitecorp, merveilles and the #uxn community, for your support, encouragement and inspiration for this project! :merveilles: #theWorkshop
(DIR) Post #AFQ9OTLMcIHWrPvO88 by sejo@merveilles.town
2022-01-12T03:37:51Z
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for the virtual pet jam, i'm starting to visualize the state of 16 NOR gates (with 1 or 2 inputs) + 3 inputs + a constant that make up a 3-bit counter*my hypothesis is that i can find a way to spatially arrange these bits such that a somewhat meaningful image of a "pet" arises in each one of the 8 states. the idea being that you could compute the gates by hand on a board, and then obtain a visual of the new state of this "virtual" being.#theWorkshop
(DIR) Post #AFQ9OTn0xUOqFArTEG by sejo@merveilles.town
2022-01-14T02:23:39Z
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trying an alternative visualization of the changing bits of the "pet".each column would correspond to the state of one or more pixels in the final drawing/screen.i'm finding it tricky to use them all... i might reserve some section of the 'screen' for "noise" (like the ground?) so that i can use less changing bits for the drawing.#theWorkshop
(DIR) Post #AFQ9OUF1HMnje1xpse by sejo@merveilles.town
2022-01-14T03:42:23Z
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almost done, i think! i still see the moving "pair of eyes" that were the first thing i put there, but i don't know if you see them and/or if the states make some kind of sense...#theWorkshop
(DIR) Post #AFQ9OUhNZvUD3zEU5I by sejo@merveilles.town
2022-01-14T04:37:21Z
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managed to solve it in some way! at some point i thought this was going to be impossible.the pixels that change in the creature correspond to the internal state of a 3-bit counter built with NOT and OR logic gates.the idea being that one will be able to solve the counter by hand and simultaneously make their "pet" advance in time.this was a nice collaboration between nasu and a small program i made to keep track of the pixels and their states.#theWorkshop
(DIR) Post #AFkZiFu7rgOdEkR7Fw by sejo@merveilles.town
2022-01-18T01:57:25Z
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coming up with some kind of human-and-machine-readable notation to express logical relationships between squares in a (chess)board :)i'm showing here the digital "circuit" for my virtual pet for the jam!on this year i plan to continue exploring this kind of logical nets on 8x8 boards to be solved/performed by hand :tealheart: #theWorkshop
(DIR) Post #AFkZiGQjuQU4rthA5g by sejo@merveilles.town
2022-01-21T02:21:12Z
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experimenting with semiautomatic (?) svg generation for the board of my virtual (?) pet for the jam#theWorkshop
(DIR) Post #AFkZiHSY5BWe3nY7Y8 by sejo@merveilles.town
2022-01-23T23:51:09Z
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submitted my entry for the virtual pet jam! i still want to make a video and timelapse about it, but it will have to wait a little bit :)> norpet is a digital pet with hand-powered logic. > its board (or non-electronic digital screen) consists in a grid of logical operations, one per cell, that you have to follow to bring your pet across its different states of life. https://compudanzas.itch.io/norpet#theWorkshop
(DIR) Post #AGlTHd019cLZcx2ZUG by sejo@merveilles.town
2022-02-23T02:41:56Z
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> This book is about how computers can be carriers of powerful ideas and of the seeds of cultural change, how they can help people form new relationships with knowledge that cut across the traditional lines separating humanities from sciences and knowledge of the self from both of these. It is about using computers to challenge current beliefs about who can understand what and at what age. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful IdeasSeymour Paperthttps://mindstorms.media.mit.edu/#theLibrary
(DIR) Post #AItRLJXrPCl2N9lLYu by sejo@merveilles.town
2022-04-28T01:48:34Z
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just learned about Durrell Bishop's Marble Answering Machine (1992), a creative tangible device to visualize and interact with voice messages represented as marbles 🤩http://dataphys.org/list/durrell-bishops-marble-answering-machine/#tangibleComputing