Golan Levin

@MrPrudence 🔥

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@goodside Reminds me of Darius Kazemi's "Reverse OCR" bot from 2014: tumblr.com/reverseocr , github.com/dariusk/revers…

GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 try to read “handwriting,” but it’s actually just meaningless scribbles I drew on my phone with my eyes closed. Sol seems to reliably hallucinate an answer. Fable admits it can’t read it, or even pushes back and says it’s not actually writing.

@etiennejcb @mikegee Even more clever than usual

@atomless @tokufxug Oh that’s nice, thanks James!

@tokufxug @golan 👀

【未来のホワイトボード】マーカーの動きに映像が連動する、インタラクティブなプロジェクションマッピング Roelof Knol氏の作品で、手書きの線や動きをリアルタイムに検知し、光のエフェクトが追従して動き出す。ARと映像技術が融合した次世代の体験型アート Roelof Knol氏についてはリプ欄。

@memoakten Great work. Reminds me of Boneless Girl from ~2008: freewebarcade.com/game/boneless-…

Major update: multi-cargo, multi-colony, different 'scenarios' (race straight, across, tug of war etc.) Myrmecophobia warning :) Two ant colonies carrying human-shaped food home :P (orange ants -> orange food, blue ants -> blue food). There’s no global coordinator. Each ant only senses & acts on local cues: pheromones guide toward home & food; once attached, they sense contact forces & movement. The human-shaped food are completely passive. They’re not animated and only move because of physics simulation, ants pushing & pulling on their articulated limbs, collisions etc. (i.e. they’re ragdolls with stiffness & springiness in the joints).

You are a collection of trillions of cells, more than half of which are not even genetically human. Trillions of intelligent little selves work together, to keep you alive, so that you can keep them alive. And somehow, through their interactions, *you* emerge. And to you, you feel like a single unitary entity, an *I*. But you are in fact a network. Could a collection of ants also be an *I*?

@RavenKwok 😵‍💫

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Great thing

@lennyjpg 🌸

@lennyjpg I miss your ssh terminal, I showed that generator to my students often

@toThePixel thank you!! And, understood :) In truth, I designed Plottimation more for students and workshop scenarios :)

@golan Hey Golan! I’ve actually seen (and recommended) this tool a few times now. I’m still kind of obsessed with having my animations show a bit of background and paper edges. It’s significantly more work though, so I may have to give this a whirl in the future. Thank you!

I've been playing around with cellphone video as an input to algorithms that generate plotter drawings lately. Here are 200 sequential frames of me checking out a Japanese Maple in my backyard.

@lennyjpg 🍰

@golan 🖤 leanderherzog.ch/2017/ooo/

@lennyjpg also of possible interest, "zone plates", which present all spatial frequencies in all orientations. Can be used to visualize the limits of imaging systems, and also for weird optics experiments :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_plate editor.p5js.org/golan/sketches…

@golan 👀 I did not! csf is fancy! 🙏

Fun reminder that my popup solo exhibition at the @bantamtools Machine Arts Gallery (Peekskill, NY) continues until June 12! I'm showing several different collections of plotted works examining cells and organic form: bantamtools.com/collections/go…

not being weird is dangerous. this is your only asymmetrical advantage against ai .

@maxbittker Yes, it's like painting with different types of pushbuttons, with the addition of a connected-components thing that propagates user clicks to neighboring pixels.

@golan this is neat, thanks :D If i'm understanding, each behavior is something like a logic gate, that responds to clicks and to neighbors? It reminds me a bit of how a custom LCD screen works

@maxbittker of possible interest, golanlevin.github.io/pip/index.html — I just gave sandspiel a shoutout :)

I've just made a @p5xjs restoration of "Painting with Interactive Pixels", a 1998 drawing tool by @dagsvanaes in which each "ink" color has its own behavior. PIP influenced me greatly in '98 — and as a Java app hasn't been viewable online in 20 years: golanlevin.github.io/pip/index.html

@Michael_J_Black This looks amazing -- I hope to use it in my Experimental Capture course this fall. Can it really work with commodity cameras (e.g. Logitech c920, multiple iPhones) that aren't genlocked/frame-synched?

Project: mamma.is.tue.mpg.de Code: github.com/cuevhv/mamma Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.13040

I’ve been capturing 3D human motion for 30 years and today is maybe the biggest day in that history. We are presenting MAMMA at CVPR (oral session 2A). MAMMA is a markerless multi-camera system that has accuracy similar to marker-based systems.