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

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

Thumbs up / thumbs down

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

Erosion becomes collapse

GIF of collapsing image pixeles

Turns out a self-healing image looks a lot like a fading paint brush. More to try.

GIF of an erosion experiment

GIFs are probably not going to be kind to this series.

I have the fzf menu working now. It looks like this:

Screenshot of my fzf garden menu

Working on a stream

Building a general purpose image uploader.

Finally got my gif setup working again in Sway. This recording featuring the pokemonsay oblique strategies.

Image to link map test. From: https://gemini-spatial-example.grantcuster.com/

Might cut out the in-between and go full cairo.