20 May
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Just discovered that a huge range of complex colour gradients are easily achieved by doing a 50/50 color-lerp between two colours in HSB mode. Hue is affected by height and a range parameter. Just 4 adjustable sliders gives you a lot of scope, and thats without some of the random variance I’ve used in other gradient algorithms.

15 May
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Final Reminder, I’m giving a talk tomorrow at Parasol Unit Art Foundation Thursday 7 - 9 pm, near Old Street, London. £6/5 entry

Final Reminder, I’m giving a talk tomorrow at Parasol Unit Art Foundation

Thursday 7 - 9 pm, near Old Street, London. £6/5 entry

13 May
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Venus of Google process ScreenGrab (edit)

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Venus of Google 27.2 x 14.9 x 8.0 cmz-corp powder 3D Print

Venus of Google

27.2 x 14.9 x 8.0 cm
z-corp powder 3D Print

12 April
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Screengrab test shot

Screengrab test shot

10 April
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3D mesh hill-climbing algorithm, using Processing, Hemesh, Python and the image compare command-line tool in ImageMagick. Given any image the mesh will self-iterate towards it, first by transforming shape, then mesh face colour. The sequence pictured above takes about 1 hour, these are just 16 stills from thousands of permutations that take place over that duration. The result is an entirely automated 3D printable colour object visually similar to the image provided. 

3D mesh hill-climbing algorithm, using Processing, Hemesh, Python and the image compare command-line tool in ImageMagick. Given any image the mesh will self-iterate towards it, first by transforming shape, then mesh face colour. The sequence pictured above takes about 1 hour, these are just 16 stills from thousands of permutations that take place over that duration. The result is an entirely automated 3D printable colour object visually similar to the image provided. 

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Found an unpublished photo of one of the digital natives.

Found an unpublished photo of one of the digital natives.

4 April
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Pestle & Mortar Cropped.

Pestle & Mortar Cropped.

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30 March
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"To understand ‘x’, we need to know what it is to be x, or to be an x, and that knowing this apprises us of what it is NOT to be x, not to be an x. But with ‘real’… it is the negative that wears the trousers. That is, a definite sense attaches to the assertion that something is real, a real such-and-such, only in the light of a specific way in which it might be, or might have been, NOT real."
J.L Austin - Sense and Sensibilia. 1962. 
18 March
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A short documentary around my work by researchers from Media and Arts Technology programme, Queen Mary University of London. Thank you James Bridle, Laura Davidson and Dems for your insightful contributions. 

17 March
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I’m mostly posting to my research tumblrs: pfbot.tumblr for bookmarking visual culture, and algopop.tumblr for discourse on algorithms in culture. New personal work due later :)

16 March
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13 March
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16th May

I’ll be doing a talk / conversation at Parasol Unit Foundation on the 16th May on Object as Process. Details here

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opencv + python, feedback detection scores for face, eyes, nose and mouth. Pleased that I’m getting closer to achieving the autonomous hill climbing algorithm I’m working on.

opencv + python, feedback detection scores for face, eyes, nose and mouth. Pleased that I’m getting closer to achieving the autonomous hill climbing algorithm I’m working on.