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aebrer

@aebrer@kbin.social

Scientist, programmer, gen artist, entropist, 🇨🇦 | PhD biophys | he/they | Aprendiendo Español (🇲🇽)

find my art, social links, and projects at https://aebrer.xyz

TomLarrow, to genart
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Had fun doing some in this afternoon. Lots of dots, sized and colored based on noise.

Enjoyed getting back at it after some time away

Code: https://codeberg.org/TomLarrow/creative-coding-experiments/src/branch/main/x_0100/x_0100

A rainbow colored blob surrounded by other dots that continue the coloring pattern
This is dominated by a large blue blob that has a red outline. My son says it looks like a mouse. There are other dots surrounding it
A noisy cloud of colors that fade into dots

aebrer,
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@TomLarrow I definitely see the mouse! The colors on these look so nice especially

aebrer,
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You may want to look into that... mine sleeps for a day or two at least typically.

aebrer,
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As an Ontarian I also gotta say the bit about the premiers is also spot on.

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Corruption here (Canada) still happens federally and especially at the provincial level (like Doug Ford, which has many blatant examples and faces no consequences). Municipally (county level) I have not noticed as much, and my municipality seems to have a great local government that functions well... I've even spoken up and had a small issue resolved with little effort.

However I think you'll find if that kinda stuff grinds your gears you'll still have a better time in Canada than the US, despite the problems (and we do have problems).

Source: Canadian (Ontario) but lived in the USA for four years (Oregon)

aebrer,
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Honestly, I can't give you the info you need as I haven't lived in Alberta... But it does have a reputation for being the most right wing Christian part of Canada, so compared to Oregon I'd say it might be a downgrade

aebrer,
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This also came across well whenever someone tossed clothing off the railing.

Looking for a new car under $20,000? Good luck. Your choice has dwindled to just one vehicle (apnews.com)

At a time when Americans increasingly want pricey SUVs and trucks rather than small cars, the Mirage remains the lone new vehicle whose average sale price is under 20 grand — a figure that once marked a kind of unofficial threshold of affordability. With prices — new and used — having soared since the pandemic, $20,000 is...

aebrer,
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Lol apparently having AC in your car is a privilege and not a basic feature... It's 2023 and it's just getting hotter, I want AC sorry

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In that case I do kinda agree, guess I just misunderstood his point haha

thresfold, to genart
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One last plot before i go on vacation 🏖️

Drawn with 4 inks, took around 12 hours

aebrer,
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@thresfold awesome plot! Enjoy your vacation!!

aebrer,
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I have heard that the newer strains don't show up on the tests, depending on the test. I got it recently, tested negative but it was my second time so I could recognize it and be fairly certain.

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Or it keeps doubling even well after its surpassed the human population, and we all have to keep hitting "pass" in turns forever, and if even a single person gives up then boom.

aebrer, to genart
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Ok vacation for a couple weeks, ttyl folks

No work and no art on this vacation! Just relaxation. ❤️

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I've got a wopet feeder for my cat and would kill for the STLs for the legs and chute lol (but please ofc don't feel obligated to share them free or otherwise). Same reason as you, so I can have it dump into a puzzle feeder.

Anyway, amazing work, any chance a guy can obtain some of your STL files?

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Thank you I super appreciate it 😁😁😁

autoeclectus, to genart
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gm!

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@autoeclectus this looks sick, is this a fractal of some kind?

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At a similar pay scale, I’ve been required to go into homes where folks had COVID. Coworkers have been shot at. I’ve seen things I really would have preferred not to. No job is perfectly sane in that sense.

American? Because this is not normal up here in Canada.

gmschroe, to genart
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Continuing the colour explorations in this system.

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@gmschroe ooooh I love this!

TomLarrow, to genart
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Today's is actually yesterday's Creative Coding, but the first image here took nearly 24 hours to render, so I'm posting it tonight.

Inset circle packing using the Shapely library to help determine the radius of each circle to draw in

As fun as it was to wait in anticipation of the really detailed one, I prefer the simpler ones as you can see the pattern more clearly

(these are hard to see the pattern until you zoom in)

Code: https://codeberg.org/TomLarrow/creative-coding-experiments/src/branch/main/x_0096

aebrer,
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@TomLarrow love this system haha the results are so complex looking

@ke8smq

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I'd like to second what Veraxus said. I have a steam deck and the ease of use factors are off the chart. At this point my gaming PC sits nearly entirely unused, I do everything on my steam deck, even playing Caves of Qud lol

Will Corpos try to force all computing on the to cloud and make privately owned local storage illegal?

Seems like the next logical step. Most big games are always-online Games as a Service where your local storage is useless if the company server doesn’t handshake. A lot of business and productivity software already requires subscriptions and is partially online. Every single fucking company wants to have an app on your phone...

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FWIW the Canadian supreme court made piracy laws unenforceable on purpose, so you also don't need a VPN in Canada.

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Seems like while on average a human can be expected to "naturally" throw better than a monkey, most monkeys are perfectly capable of learning to throw with skill comparable to a human.

Sources:

  1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0028393200000567
  2. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140225-human-vs-animal-who-throws-best (actually a great read)
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I'm not sure how you're getting that impression. The quote you put there doesn't show up in the paper even once, and in fact if you search for "aimed throwing" you'll see several instances where they discuss the aimed throwing accuracy of the monkeys. Even in just the abstract there's a few places where they make it clear the monkeys are aiming (and additionally that's what they were measuring).

For both species we found positive correlations between target distances for throwing accuracy, direction and strength of hand preference, percentage of bipedal vs tripedal throws, and percentage of overarm vs underarm throws.

In fact, they go so far as to clearly state that the monkey throwing is a suitable model of human throwing, meaning that the way they throw is similar enough to us that we can actually learn about ourselves from it.

We believe that the capuchin monkey is an informative nonhuman primate model of aimed throwing in humans and that research examining the throwing behavior of capuchins provides insight into the neurological and behavioral characteristics that underlie coordinated multi-joint movements across the primate order.

Anyway, that's all the time I'm gonna spend on this mythbusting lol.

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Additionally being bipedal means that as we run our breathing rate is separate from our gait. As four legged animals gallop the motion of their running expands and contracts their diaphragm, forcing them to breath at the same rate they run at.

Since they can't sweat like us, or breath like us, they have to stop running and start panting in order to cool down.

While humans can just keep going, relentlessly, like the It Follows monster.

is it ethical to use third party libraries and other stuff in my portfolio website?

I am confused as to whether it is acceptable to use code produced by other people for something that is related to me and my creations. Do i have to resort to coding my portfolio website with pure css and js to demonstrate my credibility and experience as a candidate employee? Does the ideology of ‘using other people’s tools...

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You could have an "about this website" section that lists the tools and packages you used, and so on. If I saw that on a candidates website (a little section detailing how the page was made and crediting sources) I'd be insanely impressed. That's the kind of person you know you can work alongside.

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Unless it's like a super minimalist web 1.0 vibe, like basically almost pure html barebones text.

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Bro yeah that's true but like women couldn't even vote till recently damn

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https://kbin.social/m/genart -> it's a community for sharing and discussing generative art!

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Thanks lol I struggled with how to format this link

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Only saying this for general informational purposes, but if you want to be able to follow Lemmy and Mastodon content and post either, kbin supports that out of the box (masto style content is called "microblogs")

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Maybe (or at least an albecuire drive)

Maybe

Probably not

Also some more "basic" things like cheap MRI without requiring helium (which we are running out of), cheap and easy magnetic levitation (more available high-speed trains)

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Afaik they did build it in real life, and the paper in fact is about the process for manufacturing it, not just about the properties or simulations.

People have replicated the simulations so far, but are still working on replicating the manufacturing process, as it has low yeild and some variability apparently

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Interesting I hadn't seen that. Do you have a source I could check out? There's six authors so it'd help figure out what you're referring to

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Yeah artificial gravity I was thinking more along the lines of faking it via magnetism.

Albecuire drive I was just wrong about, you're right it's not a maybe it's a nearly 100% no lol.

Sorry just excited.

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My understanding (limited) is yes. If you want quantum secure cryptography you need to use specific algorithms designed for it.

Tried reaching out to my mom to see if we can try and mend our relationship. Didn't feel great, I want to try again though (lemmy.world)

we’ve been no contact with my family on and off for a while - we were able to use covid and my daughter’s premature birth as a scapegoat (which honestly was a worry anyways), but we’ve been starting to try and attend family events more now that my parents have grandkids other than my own kids. Having more in-laws and grand...

aebrer,
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I mean she said she prefers to quilt alone as it's a self enjoyment time. I think it's probably best not to try to insert yourself into that, and respect her stated wishes.

wininoid, to gaming
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I just heard about Caves of Qud. It sounds like Rogue X Dwarf Fortress. I'm intrigued. Is it any good?

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@wininoid it's crazy good, I've been playing it nonstop this weekend

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You got a title for that one? Sounds like something I'd enjoy

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Canadian poutine eater here.... IMO sadly there is no substitute for the curds. They are just texturally unique. It's quite important considering it's one of only three ingredients.

I know your pain though, I was living in the states for a bit and it was basically impossible to get good poutine. If I wanted it I had to make it myself, which meant a long trip to Tillamook to buy cheese curds from the source direct.

autoeclectus, to genart
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gm!

100% Coded art

aebrer,
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@autoeclectus absolutely sick af

0xSim, to genart
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(previously posted on twitter)

pal({7,13,-3,2,-14},1)w=128n=20p={}r=rnd
for i=0,n do
p[i]={x=r(w),y=r(w),a=r(2)-1,b=r(4)-2}end
::_::cls()for i=0,n do
q=p[i]q.x=(q.x+q.a)%w
q.y=(q.y+q.b)%w
for j=i,n do
o=p[j]x=o.x-q.x
y=o.y-q.y
d=xx+yy
if(d<750)line(q.x,q.y,o.x,o.y,d/150+1)end
pset(q.x,q.y,1)end
flip()goto _

https://www.pico-8-edu.com/?c=AHB4YQEbAOBp8AAnX7-9FrdccMYhyRFJckjRRJe8RtRc8RI3NeE9TxA150w0ffsKTdHdvnL9I1R3vEAYT6RVGqb13enlbf8UST61MjPwFjZbc8NMNLWU3W_LrarKpl5ANuC64P4ieIHJh1hIBcT3ECMSIsV1M01lguuqaqQ7bWcuy4b8Evhhxi_aI88Qr2mODUoGNHMDVRQ2S8IBbeqEwAlBsdhV5xUTWVNk8exIeeT0hcs7U_XynrLIpqRAsOKDwAfthattu9HEuiTLg_1LCARbbmNgINsIn2EgLMZndwI=&g=w-w-w-w1HQHw-w2Xw-w3Xw-w2HQH

Points randomly moving on screen, creating connections between them if they get close enough

aebrer,
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@0xSim ah the color transitions look sooooo nice

aebrer,
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with different seeds you get quite different dither patterns, thanks to the entropy locking:

https://files.catbox.moe/7s1tkt.webm

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Nuclear Throne

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  1. If you love enter the gungeon you'll probably love nuclear throne. I certainly love both and both are firmly in the bullet hell genre.
  2. Fewer weapons and a more minimal game loop.
  3. Faster paced.
  4. You level up in a run as you kill things and select perks that change the gameplay a bit.
  5. More emphasis on dodging (without rolling) and killing, it's super fast paced.
  6. Both have fun secrets and hidden levels.
aebrer,
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Whoa thank you! Sounds really promising I'll definitely give it a try!

aebrer,
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Oooh with like dials and stuff to be like: calculate your galactic position for the jump

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Pfffft the prism dimension that's so Jurassic. I hope when our meteor comes we get to go to the shadow realm or something a little cooler.

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