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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

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Weirdly enough on kbin.social for me /m/asklemmy.ml link in the post worked for me

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non-looping infinite generation at the source: https://objkt.com/asset/KT1URVzdQNsdXULazJcK6TtS5mUCY82aEvwL/10

source code:

s = rnd(-1)  -- seed for entropy locking
pal({[0]=0,-8,8,9,10,11,12,-4,0,-8,8,9,10,11,12,-4}, 1)
-- function to draw a regular polygon with any number of sides
-- x,y = center of polygon
-- r = radius of polygon
-- n = number of sides
-- a = angle of rotation, in turns (0-1)
function poly(x,y,r,n,a,c)
  local i
  for i=0,n-1 do
    local t = i/n+a
    local x1 = x+r*cos(t)
    local y1 = y+r*sin(t)
    local x2 = x+r*cos(t+1/n)
    local y2 = y+r*sin(t+1/n)
    line(x1,y1,x2,y2,c)
  end
end
cls()
rot_angle = 0
::_::  -- draw loop start
if(rnd()>.9)poly(80,80,32,3,rot_angle,9)  -- draw triangle
rot_angle += 0.0001  -- rotate triangle
-- dither
for i=0,200 do
  local x = rnd(129)
  local y = rnd(129)
  local c = pget(x,y)-1
  pset(x-1,y-1,c)
end
-- if rot_angle goes back to 0 (modulo) reset the seed
if(rot_angle%1==0)srand(s)

goto _
aebrer, to genart
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What have I been up to:

Aside from work, I'm following all the accounts I followed at genart.social. This means that over time as I subscribe to more artists our microblog section is going to get more populated! Taking it slow because it's all manual for now and I've only made it through ~160 / 629

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@loosenut well, in my case at least it's because I'm more active here (kbin) 😆

I have felt like a lot of "our crowd" has been picking up twitter again, but whenever I open that app it just reaffirms how much I don't like the experience. The noise and the ads, the sheer number of people who can like and retweet vs a totally empty comment section... it just didn't feel good to me

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

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@Metamere this is so satisfying visually, just trying to let my eyes figure out what's going on

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@Metamere oh wow thanks for pointing that out I had assumed it was just the static image! Really cool 😎

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I have used both and I don't disagree with you, but I want to say it's worth noting that torrents also work fine with Sonarr and Radarr!

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Agreed again haha, it was way more fiddly (but also more free!)

These days I'm just using Stremio for my media though, with add-ons it's glorious

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I feel like Meta going into the fediverse shows that they can see the tide rising on decentralized social media. My main concern with the Meta instance is more about whether or not they'll support account migration.

To me, the killer feature of the fediverse is the account migration. (it's coming eventually to kbin)

Sure it's nice (actually awesome) to see content from so many diverse communities... But the killer app is being able to move to a new server when you need to and get your followers to automatically follow you at the new location. This prevents enshittification to a large degree, because there's no lock-in network effects.

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Great take, and honestly I'm so excited to see what the future holds for development of new features, UX, and new paradigms on ActivityPub

Hard to imagine what this will all look like five years from now, but after seeing how it's grown over the last year alone I'm very excited

(Also a plug for a growing community: kbin/m/genart for generative art of all kinds at all levels, if you like genart come hang out!)

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My real hope is that it supports migration from Masto instances, because I have followers there that I'd rather have here since I like the UX better

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I've seen some cool discussions about decentralized identity and how it can be handled, but that's probably still a future goal, not likely in the immediate future

I'm way over my head at this point though

Still, it's fun so far even while it's still under such heavy development, so I'm just vibing

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I don't want to spoil anything, but the final (true final) boss for Titan Soul really blew me away. I was so dialed and so stressed and somehow came through on top, I felt like a god.

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I'm about to do a second playthrough of Disco Elysium, and this time I think I won't try to redeem the MC... I will try to beat it as an alcoholic brawler with a good heart who can't stop analyzing people.

But it's taking all my willpower not to do Inland Empire again 😅

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Thanks for the review I gotta check this out!!

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Agreed that was amazing, I didn't expect it at all and it blew me away

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I did and I reallllly enjoyed it :)))

KRANKARTA, to genart
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@KRANKARTA it looks super organic in a way, love it

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Hey ernest, quick question about federation. I setup /m/genart, and I set the tags to follow (eg. GenerativeArt). On my mastodon account I can see many more posts tagged with GenerativeArt than what shows up in the microblog. Is this expected? and how can I improve it? I'm currently working through following the same accounts as my old masto account.

re: feature requests -> #1 thing I'd love to see is the ability to migrate accounts, so I can port my followers from my old masto account to my new kbin account :))

Anyway, I know you're busy af, so I'm not expecting a response. No pressure. Love the site and thanks for all your hard work!

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Awesome thank you so much for the detailed response! I will keep making progress refollowing my network then :))

One thing to possibly note: it seems there's something weird about the federation with mastodon.art; no one shows up from that server when you search for them

LuizAndreGama, to genart
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@LuizAndreGama these look awesome 🤩 very organic and mysterious

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My link? I didn't post a link... Maybe it's a Lemmy issue, everything works as expected on kbin

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On mastodon yes, so that feature should come to the Reddit-likes soon enough

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