New on constraint.systems: Image Paint

Image pixels are copied and pasted in the direction you click and drag. An attempt to make something tactile like paint, but that "goes with the grain" of its digital nature.

Image paint experiment coming into focus.

I recorded a workspace tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRhAWA8zBa0. Featuring computers, cameras, and lots of storage bins.

Starting to add layers to the scrape experiment.

I got something more like a displacement effect working, but I don't like the feel of the kind of smooth circle erase versus the crunchiness of everything else. Think I'm going to cut it.

A nano-banana canvas experiment. Generating based on a source image and the overlapping prompts, caching the results. Like adding semantic layers to an image.

Caching by combined image and prompt works well, but doesn't fully solve the order issue of:

Not quite the effect I'm after. But enjoying the stops along the way.

I think this is actually on the right track.

More progress on the GIF player / frame downloader.

Trying out overview mode with the Niri window manager.

Implemented rough cache in the GIF viewer, since GIFs mainly work by applying patches on top of the starting image. I run through the whole thing caching evenly spaced frames at the start, then use them as shortcut base when seeking to frames further in.

Figuring out how to render a GIF frame-by-frame.