prosthetic knowledge
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Delaunay Painter
Great creative online drawing toy allows you to upload an image and ‘triangulate’ it yourself.
There are 4 modes - solid, lines, solid+lines, and simple. Images can also be saved.
Try it out for yourself here
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Screenshot-proof images via temporal dithering
Proof-of-concept code to protect images online - by persistant.info:
Snapchat’s (and now Facebook Poke’s) main claim to fame is that it lets you send “self-destructing” image messages. Setting aside the debate about the uses of this beyond sexting, the key vulnerability in both apps is the built-in ability to take screenshots. Both take a reactive approach, where you’re notified if the recipient took a screenshot, but can’t really do anything about it.
I was thinking about ways of mitigating this issue, and figured that perhaps turning the image into an animation where individual frames are not (or at least less) recognizable would be the right path. This is a variant of temporal dithering, except we’re intentionally pretending like each frame has a limited amount of precision, and only when averaged together is the original image re-created.
I’ve created a proof of concept (source) of this. It loads the image into a
<canvas>and generates a “positive” and “negative” frame out of it. The positive frame has a random offset added to each pixel’s RGB components, while the negative one has it subtracted. When displayed in quick sequence (requestAnimationFrame is used to do this every time the screen refreshes) the two offsets should cancel out, and the resulting image should re-appear.The GIF above doesn’t really demonstrate the idea well, you can get a better idea of how it works in this online demo here, and more info can be found here.
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The Colour Of
iOS app takes a search term, then creates an abstract collage from Instagram images based on that term:
The Color Of App from Kwok Pan Fung on Vimeo.
What is the color of happiness? Now you have an objective answer with ‘The Color Of’ app. When you search for something, the app will grab pictures from Instagram and overlap them to form an abstract image with a dominant color, which you can share on Facebook and Twitter, save as your phone’s wallpaper, or even send as a postcard. You can even explore the creations of other users. Free only on 14 December 2012 launch day, 99 cents thereafter. ‘The Color Of’ app is an art project by independent Singaporean designer, Fung Kwok Pan. It is based on his popular web art experiment to objectively find the colour of things based on Flickr. The iPhone app will be launching on 14th December 2012 for free, and with a price of 99 cents thereafter, based on photos from the Instagram community this time round.
When you search for a term, ‘The Color Of’ finds the Instagram images based on their tags, and overlap them to form an abstract image, which you can share on Facebook and Twitter, save as your phone’s wallpaper, or even send as a postcard (with our partners at Sincerely). Colors can also be searched by location or username.
In addition to creating your own, you can explore what the other users have created with the app. The Color Of is an annonymous, free-sharing network where you can view, share or save anyone’s creations.
‘The Color Of’ project adds on to the emerging field of new media and data art, where the work goes beyond a static medium by co-creating an art piece together with the user, the photo community and their ever-changing data. As a mobile app, users now have a piece of the project with them for an extended art experience anywhere and anytime.
From its creation till today, thecolorof.com web experiment has over 300 000 visits. Since thecolorof.com began tracking images created by its users 3 months ago, over 20 000 images have been created.You can find out more here
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How to bypass the 140 character limit on Twitter with iOS Devices
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GlitchSort2
An image pixel-sorting glitching app written in Processing by Paul Hertz:
GlitchSort2 is a Processing application that uses broken pixel-sorting to create glitchy images. Since it has found an audience among glitch artists, I’m setting up this page as a point from which to download a current version and reference materials, as these become available. I’ll also post news or links to news about GlitchSort2 here.
In version 1.0b4, released on August 1, 2012, there are four different sorting algorithms, each of which has a different behavior that can be used to affect images in different ways. Images larger than your screen can be panned by dragging with the mouse or fit to the screen dimensions for display. I’ve added a “munge” feature that does glitchy compositing, and a “degrade” command that uses JPEG compression to degrade an image.
There are links to the source code as well as executable versions for various operating systems which can be found here.It should be noted that when I installed and run the application, it required a Processing library. Should you wish to try this app out, it is probably worth downloading and installing Processing, and installing this library in it’s folder (which it will ask for). When it is running, you will be given a prompt to open an image, and the options are in the drop-down menus (in ‘Glitch’). Have fun experimenting!
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Esbat Stitches by Vaka Valo
A series of digital embroidery pieces mounted on canvas which look like patterned captures of distorted video.
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Question: How many After Effect layers does a scene from a Cyriak animation have?
Answer: Loads …
I was curious to see how many After Effects layers I used in a single scene of one of my videos, so I put together this image. I’ve taken the liberty of including all the layers inside some of the pre-comps as well (these are essentially grouped layers), and have expanded them all to show the keyframes. Happy scrolling.
Happy scrolling here
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oneseconds: having a different kind of facial
Creative use of datamoshing to bring brief life to still images. Uploaded 3 years ago - 50 second video embedded below, soundtrack is ‘loud’ and ‘energetic’:
oneseconds: having a different kind of facial from oneseconds on Vimeo.
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Bacteriogoraphy
Zachary Copfer has producing a series images from radiation and bacteria in a petri dish, portraits of famous scientists and artists:
As a former microbiologist recently turned visual artist, I seek to create work that is less of an intersection of art and science and more of a genuine fusion of the two. During my graduate research I invented a new medium that combines photographic process with microbiological practices. The process is very similar to darkroom photography only the enlarger has been replaced by a radiation source and instead of photographic paper this process uses a petri dish coated with a living bacterial emulsion. I believe that great beauty and poetry reside within the theories woven by scientists. And that it is through the unification of art and science that these treasures can be fully explored and made accessible to the world at large.
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Autodesk 123D Catch for the iPhone
The powerful cloud-based photo to 3D model service now has an iPhone / iPod Touch app to play around with:
Automatically turn your photos into amazing 3D models with Autodesk 123D Catch. Capture the world around you in a whole new way! Use this amazing little app for free.
-Take up to 40 photos with your iPhone 4/4S or iPad, then submit them to the Autodesk Cloud to automatically convert them into a realistic 3D model that you can view, share, and download
-Touch the screen to set your subject’s focus and exposure for best results
-Connect with the 123D Catch Community Gallery to see the amazing captures other users have shared and submit your own!
-Browse the example gallery to get inspired
-Interactive startup guide walks you through the process
-Control your 3D model viewpoint by moving rotating your device or simply use Multi-Touch view controls
-Receive Notification Center alerts when your capture is finished processing
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KindleGlitched by Recyclism aka Benjamin Gaulon
A collection of physical Glitch Art on Kindle E-Readers:
The Aesthetics of Planned Obsolescence / Readymades Glitch Art
KindleGlitched is a series of glitched kindles donated, found or bought on eBay, signed by the artist.
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The Paintings of William Betts
Artist creates various series of works employing familiar digital reproduction styles, but all are painted with acrylic on canvas. The above works were completed between 2007 to 2011.
Click on the photos for larger versions to see the details.
More of the artist’s website here
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Burn-In Portraits by Tivon Rice
Images created on CRT display surfaces with incredibly long exposure to a single image - the first one (top) shown the same image for 3 years, 10 months, and 2 days.
Burn-in Portrait #1 -(3 years, 10 months, 2 days)
On a shelf is a small cathode ray tube monitor, lit from within and bearing the image of the artist’s face. There is no actual video of the artist’s face playing; this is just the result of having played a video of his face so continuously on this screen—for 3 years, 10 months, and 2 days, according to the piece’s title—that it burned onto the screen. The subject is twice-departed; it’s strangely touching.
Burn-In Portrait #2 is the second in an annual project to create self-portraits through the process of burning an image into a television screen. Much like an extremely long photographic exposure, a negative of the image is played on a small TV for one year. After this duration, a positive image is indelibly burned into the CRT’s phosphors and can be seen without a DVD player attached.
More on the New Media artist’s work can be found at his website here
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C64 YourSelf
Happy Birthday, the Commodore 64!
I’ve posted about this before, but, I think it is worth sharing again to celebrate one of the most important home computers ever …
An online browser-based image converter than turns a photo into Commodore 64-style graphics.
Very easy to use, just drag-and-drop an photo (png or jpg, 2mb max) into the web page and it will convert it - see the top image, the animated gif, for a demonstration (you may need to click on it to see it).
Many thanks to the volunteers above for sending a portrait of themselves: paris87, daph-knee, everybodykiller, noo-oods, migmuffins, kevinhale, veryvaluable, zensaint and chrisdejong
You can try this out for yourself here
Related: Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today’s kids make of it? via BBC News
Prosthetic Knowledge Commodore 64 tagged archive here and here -
Van Gogh From Space
Top image was voted winner of ‘Earth as Art’ competition held by NASA and the US Geological Survey, a satellite image over Gotland in the Baltic Sea where streams of phytoplankton swirl in the waters around the Swedish island.
