First ambient TV prototype is put together. Laptop strapped to a monitor with a macropad control. One button for random shuffle. Currently featuring Terry B bike riding, Primitive Technology and Rambalac. More iterations to come.

Monitor showing ambient videos

Pixelation layers

Adjusting a pixelation layer on top of sloth image

Doing some real system config work for the first time in a while. Trying to approach that 'sitting down to an empty page of paper' feeling again for sitting down to the computer. It is hard work to make things simple though.

Progressive pixelation.

Sloth in layers of progressively smaller pixels

OKLCH sloth variations

Sloth hue winners in HSL and OKLCH

RGB winner versus RGB to HSL hue winner

Sloth color variations

Hue winner kinda looks like thermal camera.

Better pixel glooper. One effect I like here and in palette reduction generally is when the background and foreground start to infect eachother.

Forest enveloping a sloth

Trying out flood fill averaging agents. Start in a random spot and eat nearby color values, digest as average.

Sloth rendered in patches

Some debug images:

Sloth to outlines

Sloth to blocks

Generally working. Need to think more on where to take it.

Another sloth shot

Progressively pixelated Olympic shot

Debug outtake.

Debugging the sloth with accidental triangles

Progressive resolution based on difference from average. It's not wrong but it's not quite right.

Sloth compression attempt

256 colors seems like it should be enough

Thumbs up / thumbs down

Screen recording of demo app where it records if I gave a thumbs up or thumbs down

Finished listening to the Diamond Age. Pretty fun! The primer was maybe a little different than what I expected from hearing it referenced. But man I will always love an experience that secretly teaches you how to run it yourself. Need to read the Andy Matuschak essay now.

Erosion becomes collapse

GIF of collapsing image pixeles

Redid the way I do threads on this garden. Now a separate file with newline separted posts. Cautiously optimistic. Still more work to be done to make posting here feel easy.

Accessing the warp zone in Super Mario.

Enjoyed an episode of the Eggplant podcast where they interviewed sylvie. A prolific maker of games including sylvie rpg. Where, if I understood correctly, they used multiples of 7 as a constraint, so the game world is 7x7 tiles and runs at 21 fps.

I'm going to give a work presentation on Constraint Systems, going to start drafting out the pieces here:

Constraint Systems is a series of side projects I've been working on for about five years now.

It's a collection of 30 alternative interfaces for creating and editing images and text.