[HN Gopher] Show HN: I built an interactive plotter art exhibit ...
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       Show HN: I built an interactive plotter art exhibit for SIGGRAPH
        
       I'm enthralled with using pen plotters to make generative art. Last
       August at SIGGRAPH, I built an interactive experience for others to
       see how code can be used to make visual art. The linked blog post
       is my trials and tribulations of linking a MIDI controller to one
       of these algorithms and sending its output to a plotter, so that
       people may witness the end-to-end experience.
        
       Author : cosiiine
       Score  : 59 points
       Date   : 2024-03-27 16:40 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (lostpixels.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (lostpixels.io)
        
       | beardicus wrote:
       | very nice work and documentation. i did a little "plotter photo
       | booth" with a homemade pen plotter many years ago and it was a
       | ton of fun. folks love to see things moving off-screen!
        
         | cosiiine wrote:
         | Thank you! That was actually close to my first idea for this
         | installation. I wrote some code to re-imagine a raster image as
         | a vector, but I couldn't find a way to keep the detail while
         | also keeping the drawing time below 10-15 minutes. That's how I
         | arrived at the MIDI idea.
        
           | josephg wrote:
           | Yeah that's a great idea. I've got a bunch of plotter seeds
           | on observablehq with sliders to control different parameters.
           | For example:
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           | https://observablehq.com/@josephg/simple-sin-waves-plot
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           | I've never thought of using a midi controller to noodle with
           | them. That's a great idea!
        
       | joemi wrote:
       | I love it. I've been thinking of generative art in the physical
       | world somewhat along these lines for a while now but haven't
       | actually gotten around to the "physical world" part of these
       | dreams yet. Mostly just been having fun coming up with
       | interesting generative stuff in Processing. Your system seems
       | really well designed, and that UI is pretty great. I'm jealous
       | both of the well-designed system you made, and that you can use
       | it to make things (I have many bare walls I intend to one day
       | fill with generative art I've made).
        
       | AstroJetson wrote:
       | You lucked out being able to get the plotters.
       | https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2024/bantam-tools/ Evil Mad
       | Scientist has been acquired by bantam-tools so plotters are out
       | of stock for awhile, along with some of the cool additions they
       | made.
        
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