kristinHenry

seachanger, 5 months ago to random

there is no such thing as free shipping.

there is just amazon undercutting thousands of small businesses by creating that illusion

drahardja, 5 months ago to meta

I don’t understand the gnashing of teeth about #Meta/#Threads joining the Fediverse. To me, more federation is better than less, even if that federation potentially brings in more spam and garbage that we have to manage, because allowing humans to communicate on the Fediverse strengthens the Fediverse, and I like the Fediverse better than corporate control.

Letting Meta join the Fediverse does not cede control of the Fediverse to Meta. The same rules of the Fediverse still apply. If Meta doesn’t do its job in moderating their instance, existing countermeasures used against any other poorly-managed instances can be deployed. Meta is, in fact, forced to cede some control to the Fediverse.

I continue to believe that blocking is not an effective way to manage federation, and so it follows that I believe preemptive blocking is a bad idea.

Let them come. It’s nice here. Maybe some will decide to move to a Fedi instance instead, and it will be easier because they won’t lose touch with their friends.

kristinHenry, 5 months ago to art

Day 19 of #ArtAdventCalendar

Another early piece, this one from my Generative Flowers series. This series was also one of the first to be shown and sold in a gallery, which felt great!

#art #GenerativeArt #gallery #flowers

kristinHenry, 5 months ago to genart

Day 18 of #ArtAdventCalendar

Today, I'm sharing a piece from my early experiments with creating art inspired by chemistry. The code was written in AS3, and I rendered it to video so it's still easily playable.

Particle Dance https://www.patreon.com/posts/particle-dance-13502359

#SciArt #CreativeCoding #animation #art

kristinHenry, 5 months ago to genart

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14

I'm sharing an art-game I created early days of Covid: Smash-A-Rona!

It's best on mobile. To play, you 'smash' the virus particles with 'medicine' before they reproduce out of control.

It's free! So click on the 'No thanks, just take me to the downloads' link when the pay screen comes up.

I hope you have fun with it. Building it helped me deal with the extra anxieties of that time.

https://artatomic.itch.io/smash-a-rona-v2

#CreativeCoding #indiegame #art #covid #indiedev

kristinHenry, 6 months ago to genart

Since the Genuary 'prompt list' is so disappointing, I'm going to use my SciArt Prompt Generator for my creative coding inspiration.

I think I'll use it to randomly pick a prompt for each time I want a challenge.

Would you like to join me? Or just suggest prompts to add? Or both?

Let's crowdsource this.

Reply with your prompt idea, and if you'd like to be credited for it on the project page: https://artatomic.itch.io/prompts

#CreativeCoding #SciArt #SciArtPrompts #art #GenerativeArt

kristinHenry, 5 months ago to art

Day 21 of #ArtAdventCalendar

Today I'm sharing a piece that started with another Genuary prompt: "Negative Space". With my code, I drew a nebulous looking background and then a tree structure in the foreground.

#art #CreativeCoding #space #GenerativeArt #trees #MastoArt

kristinHenry, 6 months ago to art

Day 7 of #ArtAdventCalendar

Today, I'm sharing a piece I created as part of a Creative Coding challenge.

With code, I divide the boxes semi-randomly, then I 'draw' a segment of one of my hand drawn pieces into the boxes. The result is both geometric and organic.

I love how it looks like it could be a quilt pattern.

#art #ink #drawing #CreativeCoding

Generative art created with code and hand drawings. The pattern looks a bit like an unconventional quilt with boxes dividing into smaller boxes. Segments of one of my hand drawn floral pieces are drawn into the squares.

kristinHenry, 7 months ago to genart

Just picked up some new test prints, and I'm happy with how they turned out. The fine art paper really makes a difference. If I get these in mat board tonight, I'll be bringing some to the Maker Faire tomorrow.

#GenerativeArt #MakerFaire #SciArt #CreativeCoding #art

kristinHenry, 6 months ago to random

"It’s such a tiny, simple, thing and it makes a huge difference for me. It reduces my anxiety, and it just makes my quality of life better. And that shouldn’t matter, but getting all worked up about it is like getting all worked up about my glasses, which I wear so I can see clearly and enjoy my life. It really shouldn’t be any different."

I hadn't even thought about it this way, but I agree completely.

https://medium.com/@wilw/just-mind-your-business-and-dont-be-a-dick-a8441efd5612

kristinHenry, 6 months ago to random

Hey vis.social folks!

Our database will be migrated to a new server this Saturday at 9:30am UTC.

This will cause a down-time on vis.social for about 2 hours.

The upside is that this migration should improve our database performance.

Thank you for your patience.

#visSocialTips

kristinHenry, 6 months ago to random

Hey vis.social folks!

Did you know that you can make your posts so that they only are shown to your followers, but are not private?

By setting your posts as 'unlisted', they won't flood our Local Timeline.

This is especially recommended if you're posting completely off-topic, since we are a topic-based community instance.

How to set a post to 'unlisted'? This might help: https://github.com/KristinHenry/vis.social#set-the-privacy-level-of-your-post

You can also set all of your posts as 'unlisted' by default, in your settings.

#visSocialTips

kristinHenry, 6 months ago to random

Hey vis.social folks!

This is NOT twitter. Please don't treat our Local Timeline like it is.

Use CWs generously, with a sense of overabundance of thoughtfulness about triggering others.

If there food or alcohol? Use a CW

Is the topic very upsetting to most people? Use a CW!!!!

Alternatively, make your posts Unlisted.

#visSocialTips

kristinHenry, 6 months ago to art

Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar

Today, I'm sharing some 'sketches' from a series I call "Becoming a Dangerous Artist". I started it a few years ago, and it's due for an update...so this is kinda a 'to-do list' for me :)

I wrote a bit about my thinking: https://kristinhenry.medium.com/on-becoming-a-dangerous-artist-6a22e5b1dfd4

I wrote this back in 2017, and yet it still sits at the back of my brain. Sometimes, it even takes over: "To be dangerous to fascism, one must simply be an artist. And so, all art is “protest art”."

#art #CreativeCoding

kristinHenry, 7 months ago to random

Hey vis.social folks!

Please feel free to post as much as you are inspired to during IEEE VIS!

No need for CW's unless you find them helpful to organize/subject your posts. The exception being about AI topics.

Please continue to follow vis.social rules and add CWs to any AI topics. The more descriptive your CWs are, the more helpful your posts will be. Remember that this helps folks sift through the ubiquitous hype and find your work.

kristinHenry, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Hey vis.social folks!

Mastodon is a bit different than most social platforms, and it can be quirky and confusing at times. But once you get used to it, you may appreciate it even more.

We've been working on some helpful documentation for you. It's an ongoing-work-in-progress, but there are already helpful bits in there.

CWs can be confusing. How do you even add them?

https://github.com/KristinHenry/vis.social#add-a-cw-to-your-post

#visSocialTips

kristinHenry, 5 months ago to genart

Aha! There are actual prompts now for #Genuary2024

https://genuary.art/prompts

I'm still not sure how, or even if, I'll participate this time, but I'm mulling it about in my brain.

#GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding

kristinHenry, 5 months ago to random

Oh! Apparently it's #PortfolioDay

I'm Kristin Henry, independent researcher and artist. I create with data, code, and ink.

I create art installations, drawings, small games, and data visualizations.

I also post more of my art at @KristinHenry

Generative art inspired by pyramidal nerve cells.
Man standing with headphones, facing an interactive art installation of myCitySounds
Generative art inspired by chemistry and physics.

kristinHenry, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Hey vis.social folks!

Please remember to add CWs for off-topic posts like "US Politics" and more.

Yes, even for exciting news.

We're an international community as well as being topic-based.

We recommend that you post off-topic subject as 'unlisted' and/or with a CW/Subject.

Not sure how to add a CW? Here's some help: https://github.com/KristinHenry/vis.social#add-a-cw-to-your-post

--vis.social Admin and Mod team

#visSocialTips

kristinHenry, 5 months ago to drawing

Thinking about bubbles and branching trees while working on today's #inkyDays drawing.

I used to start new posts every week, but I'm doing it monthly now.

So this month's drawings are in these posts for my supporters on Patreon and Ko-fi:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/93907341
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-December-2023-L4L1RQ74Z

#ink #drawing #art #GenerativeArt #MastoArt

kristinHenry, 5 months ago to genart

Genuary 2024 Day 9: "ASCII"

I took the easy way with this challenge, and just used the letters in "ASCII" to create an abstract pattern.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/genuary-2024-day-95693417
https://ko-fi.com/post/Genuary-2024-Day-9-E1E5SUIXB

#genuary9 #genuary2024 #Genuary #GenerativeArt #Procedural #CreativeCoding #art

kristinHenry, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to genart

Ok, I'm participating in #Genuary this year. How could I resist all those great prompts...once they gave up that awful joke and posted actual prompts?

https://genuary.art/prompts

Today's prompt is "Particles", and I've posted some of my thinking and images my code produced on my Patreon and Ko-fi. These are public posts, not just for my suporters:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/95685532
https://ko-fi.com/post/Genuary-2024-Day-1-N4N6SUCUB

#Genuary2024 #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #Procedural #art