Before phones had proper internet there was WAP (not the Cardi B kind) and I briefly worked as a #pixel artist for online mobile #games. The resolution was only 96 by 40 pixels and 1 bit color (black or white) so creating detailed images was a challenge. I find limitations often make me more creative though. The games were mostly text and static images. I got to try one of them, Feudal Lords, and it wasn’t my thing.
If you have ever worked with Deluxe Paint or heard about it, be sure to check out PyDPainter, a great and free resurrection of the legendary DPaint pixel editor.
Just found the new and affordable $499 #Google#Pixel tablet is rocking up in the UK at £599. That’s a bit of a piss-take.
($499 is currently £397. Add VAT at you’re at £476 and change. Add some wiggle room for currency/imports and you go to £499. Maybe £519. But £599? Seriously?)
We'll be heavily prioritizing adding support for the Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet and Pixel Fold. It has been years since we supported a tablet (Nexus 9) and there will likely be additional work to support the form factor properly. Pixel Fold is a new form factor and may be difficult.
All images are imported as .dng into Lightroom and left as-is except for Halide shots which are all inexplicably overexposed by around 1.5 stops. For those shots, I manually lowered exposure, but left all other sliders where they were.
Halide produces 12 MP images even when I choose 48 MP. iPhone camera produces 48 MP images. Pixel 7 produces 12 MP images. It’s pretty obvious that the “48 MP” and “50 MP” images are synthesized out of binned-pixel 12 MP sensors. The images uploaded here are downscaled to 1080p jpgs using the same Lightroom settings (sRGB, 95% quality).
Pomimo niezamknięcia zbiórki na serwer #Pixelfed, zdecydowaliśmy się rozpocząć nad nim prace.
Gorąco zachęcam do dorzucenia grosika czy więcej, prócz sprzętu potrzebujemy również środków dla osób do tłumaczeń i prac administracyjno/moderacyjnych. https://ftdl.pl/start-pixelfeda/
Po uruchomieniu instancji (na razie to early access i zmiany w konfiguracji powodują restarty więc zapraszam jedynie osoby nerdowskie) dostępnej jedynie dla osób posiadających profil Pol.social na Mastodonie, zamierzamy uruchomić ogólnodostępny serwer Pol.pics
Włączycie się do prac? Wesprzecie? A może nagłośnicie te wieści podbiciem?
I feel like I post this every few months, but: is there a launcher for #Android AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE to the latest #Pixel Launcher, but lets me use a different search engine?
I love the stock launcher:
• At a Glance
• Combined app/web search
• Very little customizability because good defaults
• Smooth animations/integration w/Recents
• Ability to turn off Google Discover feed
• Simple gestures (⬇️ notifications, ⬆️ all apps)
My last Google Pixel phone was the Google Pixel 4. I didn't upgrade to the Pixel 5 because I didn't see a need to. But now Google has released the Pixel 8 Pro and I wanted to get back to using a Pixel. My previous phones were the Oppo Find X3 Pro and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 5G. Both great devices with no issues, but the Pixel line interested me more. I skipped the Pixel 5, 6, 7 and the A models in between. I considered the Pixel 6a or 7a but held off. #Tech#Pixel#Google#pixel8pro#Mobile
Been slacking posting more art here, so time for a teensy selection of an old generative/evolutionary system from 2014 (then used for my HOLO 2 magazine guest design). Originally written in Clojure, meanwhile ported to TypeScript & Zig, I've kept working on & experimenting with it ever since... 1000s of screenshots and 100s of versions to sift through. Loosely based on research done by Barricelli[1] since the early 1950s, conceptually and aesthetically it sits nicely between my C-SCAPE and De/Frag and has a similarly huge design space to explore (in some versions coupled with genetic programming to evolve cell replication rules)... There's a 1500 word draft blog post from back then too, which goes into more detail and history of this approach. Maybe its time to publish that one too at last... :)
Linear Memory (WIP), variations on a theme... exploring the terrain. Impressed by the resulting complexity, considering the simplicity of the system/setup...
RIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four days (arstechnica.com)
The closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen.