iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of procedural skeleton fonts for #p5js: github.com/golanlevin/p... #mediaArchaeology #typography #plotterArt #creativeCoding

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The conference season 2026 is over. My research group published on the topics 3D-Human-Pose-Estimation, CleanAir and Interactive Gaussian Splatting in Cultural Heritage at iWoar2026 and HUMAN2026 at ACM Hypertext Conference. #gaussian_splatting #computervision #cleanair #culturalheritage #acm

Richard Wagner set design model reconstructed with Gaussian Splatting.

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I found a Silver Reed Colour PenGraph EB50 that's almost new. It draws / writes with four tiny ball-point pens. #penplotters #plotterart

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The chatbot doesn't like being caught lying. Translation: "I didn't use it"

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My tools this summer: ChArUco board, GoPros, donut, surfboard. #humanposeestimation #hpe #surf

Person lying next to river with a large calibration board on a swim donut

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Semester documentation 2001 delivered on a Mini-CD. Interactive visual explanation how to use a Serial to PS/2 adapter. Macromedia Director.

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Learning a new instrument. strudel.cc Thanks for the hint @miskaknapek.bsky.social

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There is a comic adaption of Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" at archive.org: archive.org/details/ther...

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"In Bayreuth soll ein freies Assoziieren Kunst ergeben, doch das produziert lediglich AI-Slops - von KI massenhaft erzeugte Inhalte ohne Mehrwert. Möglicherweise hat man auch die Gestaltungsfähigkeit der KI überschätzt. Denn sie assoziiert nicht, sie würfelt." www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/bayre...

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KI-Bebilderung des "Ring" bei den Bayreuther Festspielen: In Bildgewittern

Der neue „Ring des Nibelungen“ in Bayreuth polarisiert. Können die KI-generierten Welten die traditionelle Regie ersetzen?

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"Slanted Magazine 47 - Digital Tools" published my line-typography-generator for drawing machines "Unknown Letters" and the undergraduate course "Build Drawbots and Learn to Code" i developed together with Felix Baumgärtner. www.slanted.de/product/slan... unknownletters.m05.de #plotterart #lego

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

But most people are incapable of understanding how computers really work and thus personally aren’t able to do much with them. But it feels like the first time ever that computers have been tools for their own creation. This moment feels like the Big Bang to them. daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...

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‘AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making’

Link to: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

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craig @fahner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Introducing p5.plotterControl, a library that enables live control of pen plotter hardware from p5.js github.com/craigfahner/...

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

As a postscript, I feel obliged to mention that cracking the Morph involved disassembling a Windows binary, and that I don't know shit about how to do that. As conflicted as I am about AI, part of my wonder here is how it can help us recover what's slipping away, instead of recycling what isn't.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I guess Eco would be pleased about this antilibrary of a poor guy, i even have his Pendulum, Rose and his essays in "Apocalyptic and Integrated" on over-critical and over-naive perspectives on popculture. Unread only is the apocalyptics, which makes it more valuable then. Eco man, still the best.

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 29/06/2026

After Friday's soft-launch, its time to formally put this new project out into the wild. The digital reboot of my 'The Seinfeld Chronicles' project is a detailed exploration of the trends and patterns of the laughter, character-usage, and locations of Seinfeld. visualisingdata.com/2026/06/new-...

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New Project: 'The Seinfeld Chronicles: Digital Edition' - Data Viz Excellence, Everywhere

I'm delighted to finally launch my latest and largest project to date. 'The Seinfeld Chronicles: Digital Edition' is a rebooted digital version of my long-term visual investigation of the patterns of ...

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I have to do a lot of napkin math for interactive installations and just realized i could make a multitool for common things. Welcoming comments! laserpilot.github.io/interactive-... -Monitor placement, LED simulation, projector, sensor, speaker positioning

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Interactive Installation Multitool

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'm gonna keep a small diary of my reverse engineering work in this thread. Basically, I'm finding obsolete, poorly documented, and/or poorly supported sensing devices, and getting them to produce legible open data for my Creative Coding and Experimental Capture students.

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

On a reverse-engineering streak, and pleased to present many new additions to my archive of monoline fonts —including 40+ decompiled AutoCAD SHX fonts; the Tektronix 7000-series oscilloscope display fonts; and Glen Kleinschmidt's Fourier Synthesis Character Generator. github.com/golanlevin/p...

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I experimented with Gemini and managed to reverse engineer the BLE protocols of an electric skateboard and an EEG headset no longer supported. Ever since then, I've been thinking about how to deal with these discoveries. #reverseengineering #ai

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

My tool "Unknown Letters" is featured in Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools and in the press kit! www.slanted.de/product/slan... All submitted and featured tools are listed here: www.slanted.de/news/digital... #plotter #plotterart #joydivision #p5js @slanted.bsky.social

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Fathom Information Design @fathom.info · 27/05/2026

Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Miles Davis. A little over a decade ago, Mark's passion for jazz developed into one of our all-time favorite projects: Scaled in Miles.

A close up shot of our Scaled in Miles poster zoomed into a cluster of recording sessions between Miles and Kenny Clarke.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/05/2026

Also, it was really fucking exciting being on the Web when the Web was brand spanking new, we had coffee cams and sites dedicated to spatulas and all of it was amazing

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Giuseppe Sollazzo @puntofisso.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

NEW project: a #dataviz of #Eurovision lyrics. The question: was "do #ESC lyrics follow world news"? TL;DR sort of, but not quite :-) The result is this #scrollytelling article, inspired by @puddingviz.bsky.social 's style. Methodology and code linked. puntofisso.net/eurovision/

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

New spray can adapter for the graffiti bot with an high torque servo and a Fibonacci spiral pressing the cap. #drawingmachines #plotterart #3dprint

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We scan historic stage set models of Richard Wagner's operas. The CO2 level in the archive is probably at the pre-industrial level as in Wagner's time. #cleanair

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adafruit @adafruit.com · 08/04/2026

Build a Star Trek inspired prop with LCARS diagnostics, CO2/Humidity/Temperature graphs learn.adafruit.com/star-trek-data-dispenser youtu.be/IYkjJc0lK-0

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Just released heerich.js, a tiny voxel engine that renders 3D scenes to SVG ╬ Boolean ops ◮ Oblique & perspective 𝑥 Zero dependencies ◌ Pure vector output, infinite scaling Named after Erwin Heerich's geometric cardboard sculptures. meodai.github.io/heerich/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jndl...

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Heerich Website Demo

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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 17/02/2026

I’ve been cooking—building an original archive explorer from my collection of Isotype Institute charts and maps. So far, it includes 129 figures from 10 different publications. www.chartography.net/p/explore-li...

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Explore Like a Designer

Search Isotype charts by type, features, and color.

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 17/02/2026

Coming soon… The Seinfeld Chronicles: Digital Edition

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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Last year's shutdown of @glitch.com was a huge blow to my pedagogy. Glitch was ideal for creative coding classes and workshops. I looked around for alternatives. But there was nothing that was open, decentralized, and not at the mercy of VCs or Big Tech. So I built my own. Here's Glitchlet.

The workbench of Glitchlet, showing a file panel, a code panel, and a preview panel.

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Dustin Mierau @mierau.me · 12/01/2026

How fun is this? Watch an audience cheer and laugh in amazement over pixel zooming and an eraser tool. People had never seen anything like it. You can even hear Jobs saying "incredible" as Bill Atkinson demos panning around an image while zoomed in.

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Macintosh Apple event 1984 | Showing off MacPaint and MacWrite

YouTube video by Everything Important

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

German public TV does not provide English subtitles. "Found" subtitle files are often not in sync. But it's possible to linear correct srt files by using subshifter.bitsnbites.eu and syncing the first subtitle's timestamps and the last in the file. It's a bit of work, but it works! #DIDit

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 04/12/2025

First time watching TNT’s cricket coverage and there’s some really good stuff visually showing the biomechanics of batters and bowlers actions

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Mein RunwayML Workshop "KI im Designprozess" von 2022 wurde in den KI-Use-Case-Katalog des Hochschulforum Digitalisierung (HFD) aufgenommen: ki-use.hochschulforumdigitalisierung.de

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KI-Use-Case-Katalog

Eine Übersicht zu KI-Use-Cases in Studium, Lehre und Support

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Visualization of 3D Human Pose Estimation data of river surfers. Hardware: 3 synchronized & calibrated GoPro 11 Software: Freemocap & p5js @processing.org #humanposeestimation #p5js #dataviz

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

*This is quite a good essay about being a generative plotter-artist. This is, like, the inky, haywire, art-hacker plotter-art real-deal there. lostpixels.io/writings/cre...

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Creating BUSY

A full accounting for the process of creating the BUSY art project over the course of a year. BUSY began as a challenge to create highly detailed artwork with the power of computation.

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

The stretchable, procedural single-stroke monospace font created by Kiel Mutschelknaus for his "Space Type Generator" has been added to my archive of p5.js single-line type resources: github.com/golanlevin/p...

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

www.wienmuseum.at/knowledge_fo...

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

My submission to Slanted #47 - Digital Tools. The mathematical formula for Thrasher's logo is applying y = sin(x) * log(height) on the 1951 font "Banco". BancoBender is a quick p5js tool to create remixes, export SVGs. bancobender.m05.de #banco #typography #thrasher #skateboarding @processing.org

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The drawing machines by my students are inspiring like every year. They let them understand loops and simple algorithms in their first semester. The LEGO Education SPIKE Prime sets and Blockly is quickly understood and ready to use. #plotterart #drawingmachines #penplotter

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

"Dimensions.com is an ongoing reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world." www.dimensions.com

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Dimensions | Database of Dimensioned Drawings

A comprehensive reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world.

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Patrick Stotz @patrickstotz.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

This is how the war in Ukraine has changed. For this story, we used Gaussian splatting for the first time, which creates a unique aesthetic. What do you think? www.spiegel.de/ausland/ukra...

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Michael Zoellner @emnullfuenf.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I found an affordable Xsens Awinda kit on eBay. 17 Micro-USB cables. Powering off takes 7 seconds per sensor. ;-)

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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

you know what? screw it. theremin mode. github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSen…

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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 28/07/2025

New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text: 🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...

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Reuters Graphics @graphics.reuters.com · 28/07/2025

Congress has passed hundreds of laws protecting federal public lands over the past century through bipartisan efforts and with the support of local governments. Now, Trump’s administration is pushing policies and legislation that upend these protections. www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

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Eroding protections for public lands

Trump policies reshape the role of federally owned land, against the tide of U.S. public opinion

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

We present a simplified, p5.js version of the vocal tract synthesizer from Neil Thapen's popular Pink Trombone, adapted for use in a creative coding assignment concerned with interaction design and absurd puppeteering. Interactive: editor.p5js.org/golan/sketch... Writeup: github.com/golanlevin/6...

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