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Particular kind of inversion

#Call for Applications: We're excited to organise another #Algorithms that Matter (#ALMAT) workshop in the special program of #impuls Academy 2019. Next February, we will work together with sound artist and composer Robin Minard and the selected participants on a site-specific and environment-aware sound installation for the #MuWa (Museum of Perception) in #Graz.

Details: http://www.impuls.cc/academy-2019/special-programs.html#c5169

Gosh, woke up after a stressful dream about being 'evaluated' in an artistic 'competition' :-/ Perhaps was just too much garlic in the papaya salad I ate.

Anyway, since I'm wake, here's a cool photo from latest ceremic iteration for #Körper ; I hope the colour transfer from the wood planks is preserved when burning it.

Good night...

Another run, takes an hour or so 😕 Left input, right output

Hey #caturday, my humans emptied some shelves by putting away winter clothing, so I got a new spot.

Had a quick go at the 'Hungarian #algorithm' yesterday and an interesting idea for image processing. Now this 150 x 100 image took half an hour to render, so the idea was shattered that I could make an HD video with this :-/ Gotta look at faster variants.

The IMU arrived today; looks pretty neat; someone wrote it looks like a christmas tree with red, gree, blue LEDs - but you can turn them all off in the software. Talking about, that's just amazing, you've got debian packages for all architectures, language bindings for all common languages, and the trick is it runs a daemon that translates USB to TCP, so if you write for example for the JVM, you don't need any native libs.

We're having a #Mäanderungen weekend. Reactivated my portable Pi camera, a walk around the block pointing mostly upwards. On close-up, they are quite blurry because of exposure time. I want to couple the trigger to an accel sensor so it will be in sync to my movement.

Suspending or propping up? Now I'm thinking that elevating the plates with metal sticks from floor could work better than hanging from steel wires. Test with broken ceramics, transducers still sound as required, although not much colouring through the ceramics are audible.

#Körper

Developing possible covers for the #Schwärmen catalog

Retracing image with GNG (growing neural gas)

I realised I don't really like editing Scala code in #Mellite, because the Scala editor is just too weak. So I warmed up again to the idea of utilising the #Scala plug-in for #IntelliJ. It basically seems to be possible, although I anticipate a lot of problems, e.g. state persistence, windowing...

Here's my proof of concept that the app can be embedded...

The big next question is if and how the Scala editor could be used from my program.

Ok, we're a few minutes past #Caturday here in Austria. But this happened today 😸

On Friday, we were making fresh observations for the #Mäanderungen project. Found some very particular zebra crossings (and a fantastic place to exhibit, so fingers crossed we'll get the permission).

Achievement unlocked. Nighty night.

Getting there (still)... some margins are off, sigh

Not that it doesn't have any merit....

The bloody neural gas crossed the boundary, and Mr Dijkstra was quick to follow :-/

I'll get there soon…

That's the GNG output for unfolded six pages.