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Automattic @automattic.com · 22/05/2026

“The ideas will always matter.” A standout moment from digital art pioneer @roberthodgin.bsky.social, in conversation with Pablo Honey at last night’s dev/ai/nyc. Here are a few favorite snaps from their conversation on art in the age of AI. 🗽

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Automattic @automattic.com · 22/05/2026

Our latest dev/ai/nyc did not disappoint. Digital art pioneer @roberthodgin.bsky.social and design co-lead Pablo Honey sat down for an unfiltered conversation on creativity in the age of AI. Couldn't make it to our NoHo Space? Watch the full conversation below. 🎬👇

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"The Ideas Will Always Matter" — Robert Hodgin on Art, AI & 20 Years of Creative Coding | dev/ai/nyc

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Automattic @automattic.com · 19/05/2026

Two days until the next dev/ai/nyc! 🍎 Join us at our NoHo space on Thursday, May 21 for a fireside chat from digital artist and Rare Volume co-founder @roberthodgin.bsky.social and our Creative Director Pablo Honey. They’ll explore design and expression in the age of AI. Don’t miss it!

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Can't wait! Should be a fun, occasionally depressing, dystopian hoot. Looking forward to the chat!

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Dust. Exploring subtle installation experiences. Always loved seeing dust motes floating in sun beams so I decided to try and reproduce that experience in TouchDesigner using Josef Pelz's T3D (Texture 3D operators) as well as PCR (Point Cloud Rendering) for GLSL bokeh effects.

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Further prototyping of Infinite Frames. Using an ESP32 Feather V2 and a BNO08x 9-dof sensor as a virtual flashlight. #touchdesigner #infiniteframes #prototype #adafruit

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Stills from a real-time app for viewing an image library (images courtesy of the MET)

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Update with better lighting. Cranked up the speed too for extra nausea.

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Real-time prototype of my "Infinite Frames" Houdini setup. Ever since I first made it, I wanted to see it run at interactive framerates. #TouchDesigner makes it really easy to do initial prototyping and look-dev for interactive projects we will build out in Cinder C++.

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Magnetosphere 2.0 dev/design update. 60fps, 3440x1440 output (resized for social posts), 1,000,000+ particles, audio reactive. #touchdesigner #raye #audioreactive #generative #flocking Audio: RAYE - "WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!"

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Rob Bateman @robnet.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

A journey through art, ai and existentialism from @roberthodgin.bsky.social at Kikk Festival, taking in the highs, lows and above all, utterly mesmerising creations from the master of design-led simulations 🫡. #kikk #kikk25

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Anton Marini @vade.info · 30/05/2025

If you’ve followed me on other platforms ( 🤢 ) you might know I’ve spent the last few years doing computational cinema / edit understanding. I’m happy to say we’ve got the first public live narrative search engine for film and tv! It’s early days. But check it out! ozu.ai

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Nicholas Rougeux @rougeux.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

New: I recreated Tomas Wright’s 1742 astronomical treatise, Clavis Cælestis, and its accompanying sheets titled A Synopsis of the Universe. New posters are available in antique style and modern colors. Explore: www.c82.net/clavis-caele... How it was made: www.c82.net/blog/?id=99

Screenshots of websites pages arranged in a collage

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

It's not too late to send your mom a tiny radiolarian for Mother's Day n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product...

balancing a Radiozoa orb pendant on the tip of my fingers. It's a polished silver sphere with large cellular holes on the surface and inside there's a smaller scale structure

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FITC @fitc.ca · 27/03/2025

How do mistakes, memory & nature shape creative code? At #FITCToronto, Robert Hodgin (Head of R&D, Rare Volume) dives into generative art, emergent systems & pandemic experiments. 🗓️ April 28-29, 2025 🔥 Super Early-Bird rates FROZEN! Save $100 → fitc.ca/event/to25/ @roberthodgin.bsky.social

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MOPs @motionoperators.com · 25/03/2025

I wrote a little primer on rigid body dynamics in Houdini after seeing a lot of similar questions online. Bullet is a pretty deep rabbit hole to fall into and there's a lot of legacy stuff that's very confusing for new artists... hopefully this helps you get started! www.toadstorm.com/blog/?p=1123

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A Houdini RBD Primer, Part 1 – Toadstorm Nerdblog

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Reminder to creatives (or anyone, really): If someone reaches out because they want to interview you, and they are asking you to download a specific app to conduct the interview, it is probably a scam. I have had 3 attempts since January 2025. Do your research and check credentials.

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

My favorite tower! Especially loved seeing the ghost pirate ship when the fog is particularly dense:

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Upcoming conference talks: Paradiso Fest, Mérida Mexico, March 12-16th Talk title: "Why Bother?" paradisofest.com FITC, Toronto Canada, April 28-29th Talk title: TBD, but it'll be mostly about the River Scars and Meander Maps projects. fitc.ca/event/to25/ Where else should I go in 2025?

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Processing @processing.org · 27/02/2025

Compositions in Code: The Art of Processing and p5.js will be on view at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) in NYC from March 6 – August 24, 2025 Opening March 6th at 7:00 PM: lu.ma/kbs639bj @mariuswatz.bsky.social @liasomething.bsky.social @roberthodgin.bsky.social @mwiederrecht.bsky.social

A promotional graphic for the exhibition "Compositions in Code: The Art of Processing and p5.js" at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), opening on March 6, 2025. The background features a generative art-style digital landscape with jagged, wireframe-like mountains in shades of blue and purple against a bright pink sky. The exhibition title appears in large white text at the top, with the subtitle "The Art of Processing and p5.js" in smaller font below. The names of featured artists—Marius Watz / Aleksandra Jovanić, LIA / Sarah Ridgley, and Robert Hodgin / Melissa Wiederrecht—are centered in white text. At the bottom, logos for MoMI, Tezos, and the Processing Foundation indicate the event’s co-presenters.

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Google has grouped my photos by face into me, Gregg, my mom, and a snail I took one pic of 8 years ago.

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It is official! I'm speaking at conferences again! After a 10 year hiatus, I am going to be giving a talk at Paradiso Fest in Mérida Mexico in mid March. paradisofest.com I am very excited to be part of this stellar lineup and I look forward to seeing many of my conference friends again.

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Paradiso

A 5-days immersive creativity retreat for everyone seeking to unfold ideas, get inspired, trigger, connect and expand their business.

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It is the 4 year anniversary of the first run of Meander river prints. It remains my favorite project to date (actually, maybe its a tie between this and the Planetary iPad app from 2011 roberthodgin.com/project/plan... ... okay maybe a 3-way tie with Magnetosphere)

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

An old meander study I forgot about until today, made with P5JS. roberthodgin.com/meander/

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Having just hit 1k followers, I want to post something that is of the utmost importance:

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Not much longer before my attempts at simulating my apartment by hand will have been deemed an incredible waste of my time :| www.worldlabs.ai/blog

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Generating Worlds

Today we're sharing our first step towards spatial intelligence: an AI system that generates 3D worlds from a single image.

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Next year for #spotifywrapped, show us what music you discovered after canceling your streaming service subscriptions and how you directly supported it.

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Some BTS from the moss lantern series. The toro forms adhered to the basic structure for this style of lantern, but then I exaggerated some of the features to make them feel a bit more otherworldly.

A selection of procedurally generated japanese-style stone lanterns laid out in a grid.

A collection of procedurally generated japanese-style stone lanterns.

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Moss R&D. This started as an excuse to learn more about running Houdini from the command line. I am able to provide a string as an input parameter, and the Houdini project will create the 3D letters and drop them onto the ground and let them settle, then the moss sim kicks in and weatherizes them.

3D letters made out of stone spell the word "STONE" and are covered in procedurally grown moss and tiny flowers.

3D letters made out of stone lay on a plain dark floor and are covered in procedurally grown moss and tiny flowers.

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Bought a new MacBook. Set it up. Reboot it but password wouldn't work. Recovery Assistant didn't work. So now I'm reinstalling the OS. Is this what getting old feels like?

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A proof of concept audio vis from a couple months back. Abusing the Gaea erosion system in a feedback loop solver, and using isolated stems for audio inputs. Track by DVRST: soundcloud.com/wazmusic/clo... One day I will revisit this setup...

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I’m so excited to share Radiozoa: a jewelry collection inspired by the microscopic skeletons of radiolaria. The forms are algorithmically generated and cast in sterling silver or brass from 3D-printed wax. I hope you love them as much as I do! available now: n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/line.ph... #sciart

a group of Radiozoa jewelry on a black reflective surface. There are intricate cellular earrings and necklaces in brass and silver.

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Remember to avoid strenuous activity after the big Thanksgiving meal. It will aid with digestion.

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving! May your holiday meal be #parasite-free

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

In honor of the newest fissure eruption in Iceland dying down after taking out the Blue Lagoon parking lot, here is a data vis I worked on two years ago showing the flurry of quakes that proceeded the 2022 eruption. #rarevolume #iceland #eruption #earthquake

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The fun thing about having a simulation of your apartment to scale is that you can easily incorporate camera tracks by just wandering around your home and filming it. #houdini #syntheyes

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

This is around when it started to get really complicated: I decided I wanted cables. I will say, my productivity with this project sharply declined after making that decision. It is a LOT to think about.

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Crazy photos from mbl.is showing some of the damage to the Blue Lagoon from the most recent eruption that started last night. www.mbl.is/frettir/innl...

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Another setup rendered inside my simulated apartment. 80 Level mentioned it: 80.lv/articles/art...

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adamswaab.bsky.social @adamswaab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

So, doing a volumetric fracture like this requires extracting a bunch of cells out of a volume and then iteratively intersecting them with a mesh...

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Here are some more images from my apartment recreation in different stages of completion.

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Someone wanted to see an underwater version of that last video so I ended up here. The water needs some work... #houdini #flocking #simulation #post-apocalypse

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Catching Bluesky up on some recent projects: Modelled my living room in Houdini and started using it as a playground for simulations. #murmuration #houdini #flocking #simulation

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Robert Hodgin @roberthodgin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Trying to upload a 47.8MB video file and I get the following error: file size (50000001 bytes) is larger than the maximum allowed size (50000000 bytes)

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Paweł - legomyrstan @legomyrstan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

@eetumartola.bsky.social made Houdini starter pack, make sure to check it out! go.bsky.app/HC1VVeZ #houdini #vfx #3d #gamedev

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