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Metamere

@Metamere@genart.social

Generative Artist, Creative Coder

Background in M.E. and generative design (aero degree), traditional drawing, sculpture, photography, music, adventure.

I'm seeking my way forwards as an artist. I'm here to learn, have fun, make friends, and to create and share a lot of cool stuff. I want to help make the world a better place. I believe in the golden rule—treat others as you want to be treated.

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aebrer, to random
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I'm sick rn (just a cold) and it's driving me crazy. I hate how you just have to pass time and wait to feel better, I wish there was something active I could do to speed it up.

Metamere,
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@aebrer I struggle with that too, mostly during the worst of winter, and I often get pretty wiped out. I hope you get well soon. There are a few active things I do to speed up the process. Lots of sleep of course. I drink tea constantly, mainly honey lemon throat comfort tea by Yogi Teas, and I use a neti pot twice a day. I cook big batches of congee, with white rice in lots of water (10:1, 40 minutes), scallions, carrots, mushrooms, eggs, and lots of black pepper, oil, sauces, chicken bouillon.

Quenby, to random

Bad faith actors try to control conversations by derailing them.

They have a ton of tactics and this post isn't comprehensive.

Here are a few I've seen today on my afternoon break scrolling this feed.

  • false dichotomy (narrowing the focus to 2 options even when they are not the only two options)

  • straw men (arguing against something nobody said because it's easier than really engaging in actual discussion)

  • changing the subject/whataboutism (if they can't engage on what you're talking about they will try to shortcut you to focus on another issue)

  • equivocation (using ambiguity to make two or more disparate situations to seem comparable)

  • context free takes (purposefully ignoring details that are important to understanding the situation, they will remove all context from a situation to reduce it to something they can argue against, to them nothing is racist, sexist, or wrong because if they remove enough facts from the situation they can spin it as "ok")

-making false claims (they lie, a lot, and they do it without shame or apology and will return to the lie over and over even after they have been shown it's not true)

hyperbolic nonsense (they are all or nothing, if you make a claim that a thing happened one time they will insist you said it ALWAYS happens every time and then argue that because it didn't happen in one instance it never did )

shifting goalposts (they will make a claim and when it is proven false, they will shift to another claim without admitting they were wrong on the first one, they will conflate your inability to refute a deluge of other claims (all bogus) with your inability to refute any of them and will continue to repeat all the false claims as if they were not refuted at all)

gish-galloping (when cornered they will begin to post links repeatedly even if they refute their own claims, even if they don't have ANYTHING to do with what you're talking about. 10-20 links per one comment of yours, just an avalanche of misinformation or information, hoping you will waste time actually clicking on them and they will claim victory)

refusal to answer direct questions (they will NEVER answer a direct question, they will either shift goal posts, change the subject, or ask you a question)

dismissal without reason (if they are unable to refute any of your points or prove their claim they will eventually resort to stating you believe the "narrative" you want to, and then begin in on character assassination by calling you things like "a shill" or "a libtard" or "a sheep")

My advice is to avoid engaging directly with these people at all. They are playing a game and people who are witnessing it are not equipped to pick up on it and tend to side with whoever seems most aggressive. It's not that you can't refute their claims, feel free, just ignore them when they start freaking out and doing all this.

If they start it on your page block them. They will throw a huge fit about censorship and free speech and echo chambers and safe spaces, but you can feel free to ignore that because you're not hurting someone by refusing to listen to hateful claptrap. You're just not.

They don't have anything useful to say anyway, they are only there to derail actual conversations by using the tactics listed above and as soon as they employ any it's best to shut it down if you can. It goes nowhere and it is actually not a useful conversation and will never be one.

Metamere,
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@Quenby Wow, I'm really glad my feed here has never had any of that junk. Just cool art, mathematics, geeky stuff, social awareness, civil discussions, all good stuff. That's a really good summary of annoying stuff I've seen on Twitter and Reddit over the years though. I'm not sad to be missing that.

Metamere, to Birding
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I spotted a robin gathering nest materials in the shady backyard birdbath waterfall, which is an ideal place for moss to grow. I watched it make several trips, where it would rip off a chunk, look around, and repeat several times, then fly off with a huge mouthful of damp moss. It looked like it's going to need a bath after that nest-building session. That sighting just made my day. @Ostdrossel, I thought you would enjoy this.

This picture shows the robin with its breast all ruffled, damp and dirty, from how it is building its nest by pressing the moss into place.

Metamere, to genart
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The this week, "Why Is The Sky Blue" turned out some nice results. I worked out a way to approximate Rayleigh scattering by altitude with help from Dave and Ruben from the discord group, and then unfortunately had to throw that out and go with a simpler method that would produce more artistic results with less CPU usage. Oh well, I'll use it eventually. This image is from the 33 minute mark, though it looks pretty cool even a short while in.

https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1961887

Metamere, to genart
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I was in the zone, so I managed to adapt three in this week's session tonight, all from Al Seckel's ultimate book. I also updated the Hermann illusion to work better. I think they all have some fairly fun interaction. I'm not totally sold on the "exploding squares" illusion (the upper right one), so let me know what you think.

https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1941150

"exploding squares illusion". I had misinterpreted it a bit. The gap in the middle is bigger than the other ones after all. But I guess they look like they're moving apart a bit? I dunno.
Curving lines illusion. I was pleased with how quickly this one came together. The thin lines look like they're continuously curving lines, but they're all straight segments that approximate a the curves. Fun interaction.
Hermann illusion. This works a lot better for me than when it was pure black squares.

twilliability, to genart
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Been missing plotting! I did this last night, as the thunderstorm rolled in. Created with my own rayhatcher.

Metamere,
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@twilliability Sweet! I've been trying to figure out the formula for that middle shape without just doing each edge individually. Did you figure out an efficient way?

Metamere,
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@twilliability I had forgotten about that reference, thanks! I guess that works. It's efficient in that it's all in one function, and that's probably as simple as he could get it, so I don't feel bad about not seeing an easy way to make it. SDFs can definitely be more complex than their equivalents in the old constructive solid geometry I'm used to from Raytracing.

GenPhoto, to genart

Discovered an interesting new rule. It started as a bug, but with a little tweaking it became the Borg Nebula.

The exciting thing is it runs on the web, and soon anyone will be able to try this and much more!

Metamere,
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@GenPhoto Wow, that's really cool! I'm looking forwards to trying it out.

jeffpalmer, to random
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Just how tone deaf do you have to be to send out a mass mailing announcing the availability of your new all electric vehicle, but printed on non-recyclable paper and enclosed in a single-use plastic envelope?

Thanks Nissan! 💩

Metamere,
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@jeffpalmer Yeah, that's a bit amusing. I doubt they put much thought into things like that, or that you'll find many environmentalists among the leadership of any major automaker. For that matter, I doubt most automakers are working on electric vehicles because it's the responsible thing to do. They all seem to be getting dragged forwards reluctantly by regulations and major trends. Any big manufacturer has a lot of inertia, which is why new companies have had some success with EVs.

Metamere, (edited ) to genart
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I made a curation of 21 of the sketches I made on Open Processing. It's nice to see them together and in the proper order, though I really need to make a retrospective article where I can fill in the gaps with the other projects and explanations. I've definitely referred back to these many times for code snippets, but I still want to develop some of them into larger projects down the road.

Edit: D'oh! It might help to post the link:
https://openprocessing.org/curation/85855

Metamere, to genart
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Here's a weird experiment from yesterday.
The left shape is a distorted sphere, and the right is a distorted cylinder. It's fun to morph shapes with sine functions.

U(L(B((x+20).8-y/B(x/4+z/2+3)),
(y+9).85, z+5) - 20
+2*B(sin(x/2)) + sin(z/2+x),

L((x-22)/5+sin(z/2), (y+15)/5)-3)

Metamere, to random
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I think it's really cool that a bit over half a year on Mastodon, the ratio of my mutual follows to non is right around 50%. That makes it feel like a much more tight knit community than Twitter ever did. It's also still a smaller community/following (not that I expected to be famous at this point), but it's growing, slowly but surely. On the one hand, I'd love for the rest of the generative art community to join in here, but on the other, I don't want things to get any worse over there.

twilliability, to random
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    Metamere,
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    @twilliability Happy solstice! Though mine was yesterday morning. About 15.5 hours of daylight here in Minnesota at 45° N. Looks like you're at 52.5°—I didn't realize Berlin was so far north! That would be up in Canada, here. I'm not a big fan of having the sun so high and hot by 8 am, but at least the garden is growing quickly (almost too quickly to manage)
    !

    ronikaufman, to random
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    🔴

    Metamere,
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    @ronikaufman Very cool. Why not draw all the way to the center?

    ksaj, to random

    "You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down." -- Charlie Chaplin

    "Unless you're 30,000 feet in the air." -- This lucky airborne photographer

    Metamere,
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    @stib And with a pithy quote, but no photo credit, of course. Ugh.

    Metamere, to genart
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    This week's addition to the collection, "angled dango" is a fun one I had bookmarked, with columns of balls with angled connecting lines that cause it to all appear tilted. Dango are a wonderful Japanese street food treat. The code is a bit rough, but good enough, and I like the interaction design and aesthetic. I updated the sketch so that the current week's illusion will be the starting one, regardless of where I put it in the set.

    https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1941150

    Metamere,
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    @aebrer Glad you liked it! All of the illusions I adapted mess with my perceptions in a fun way. Did you try interacting with it? It works on mobile or desktop.

    Metamere, to genart
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    I delved deeper into the awesome Universal Rayhatcher made by @piterpasma. Working with SDFs, especially in 3D, is a mind-expanding and surprisingly enjoyable experience. After many experiments, I was able to realize my vision, "Terraces Under A World Tree", inspired by the Longji Rice Terraces in Guilin, China. What do you think Piter, is this on the right level to add to the collection? I'm looking forward to trying out configurable and generative systems.

    Metamere, to genart
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    I made two interactive sketches this week based on black and white op-art works from the 1960s by Bridget Riley. I tried to make them accurate and efficient, and see how they could be transformed. An untitled work known as "Winged Curves" gave me a lot of trouble, but it turned out really well, and has a nice 3D effect. Today I had an easier time recreating a work titled "Opening", though it was still a decent challenge.

    https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1955190

    https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1956853

    Winged Curves, morphed to have sharp angles through changing the Bezier curve control point locations, and to have different proportions
    Same as previous but with alternating colors on grey background instead of black and white.
    Opening, in default config

    whitequark, to random
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    🤍: makes a prototype of a subunit of a purely functional part from transparent PETG to see if it works and without any regard to aesthetics

    me: ohmygosh this thing is so pretty and sparkly can i cherish it forever,,,

    Metamere,
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    @whitequark I now know I am not alone in this anymore. Thank you.

    TodePond, to random

    figuring out how some curves should work...

    Metamere,
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    @TodePond Nice! That looks pretty cool. This kind of geometric stuff is deceptively tricky to work out.

    henryseg, to random
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    Why is blue bigger than red?

    Video: https://youtu.be/Sbt-iFm0zTA

    Metamere,
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    @henryseg Because blue has four letters, and red only has three. Cool illusion. 3D printed?

    ct_bergstrom, to random

    A must-read for birders or anyone, really.

    https://rb.gy/k5wdz

    Metamere,
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    @ct_bergstrom Great article. I got a bit misty eyed.

    TodePond, (edited ) to random

    feels a bit mad that the work I do for my day job is now public

    you can spy on me

    https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/pull/1380

    open-source life

    Metamere,
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    @TodePond For the past few months, I've been trying to figure out what TLDraw is based solely on your feature update posts here. I was still pretty baffled, so I finally broke down and looked into it today. It seems like a really cool project. Cheers.

    henryseg, to random
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    Real-life fractal zoom with added rotation! With the extra degree of freedom in the system, the feedback control code got quite a bit more complicated (I'm not sure how much the extra complexity helped).
    Full video at https://youtu.be/S1kpqOqSttA

    A camera moves towards a spinning 3D printed fractal, slowing down exponentially so that the view from the camera forms a looping video.

    Metamere,
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    @henryseg That's dope! We're you able to just crossfire the video, or did you have to do something fancy to make it align perfectly?

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