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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I took apart a perfectly functional pocket calculator and made it LLM-powered.

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Oh wait I can make this better for bluesky than reposting a short-form video…

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I made a pocket calculator LLM-powered. As commentary.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

ok kind of a fun paragraph

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I’ve been slowly building a system for drawing birds for a passion project field guide of MIT’s avian wildlife. Here’s a thread of who I have so far: chimney swifts!

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Remember the bird projections— @thisxorthat.bsky.social show us how they make BIRD VISUALS

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Then we did chill hang out and show eachother things on the projector. This is @thisxorthat.bsky.social showing us birds, keep this in mind as it will come back later in the thread

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

My gender does not recognize the United States

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Some tests with generating vector stippling based on an input image

Circles with gradients, where the bright side is made up of points and dark side is made up of blue lines

Brighter light lines, and a buggy dark lines were it drew them randomly everywhere

Test using a picture of brick sidewalk, the stippling traces out the shape

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Days 1-4 of #genuary2025 work by Future Sketches members @thisxorthat.bsky.social, me, and PI @zachlieberman.bsky.social #genuary is a challenge for the month of January to make generative art every day with a prompt! Read more at genuary.art Music by me

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Gwen Fisher @gwenbeads.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I just registered for the Mathematical Association of America Golden Section’s region meeting at Mission College in Santa Clara on February 22. I will be showing three of my paintings there including this piece that I named “Complex Color Wheel.” 1/3

Colorful painting of plane with a dark concentric circle on the top and bottom
Light concentric circles on the left and right. The colors are in rainbow order.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 08/02/2025

Comment in r/Seattle detailing why it took a few more days for the Washington AG to file the suit wrt the trans EO. A huge thank you to all the people in the AGs office that made this happen.

Comment in r/seattle from Mitch1musPrime. Post titled “Credit where credit is due | AG Nick Brown files suit w...”

“Now that this has been officially filed, I need everyone to understand how much work the AG office has been putting into this since last week. They took dozens of interviews from medical professionals, mental health professionals, and most importantly, from families with trans kids who'd be impacted by the EO. The amount of time it took them to hold those interviews and turn them into the official declarations was an extraordinary undertaking. It was the value they placed on including stakeholders that caused the delay in getting g this filed.

They deserve all the appreciative emails we can send them for doing this.”

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Day 31 of #genuary was pixel sorting, but here’s weird ordered dithering instead

Hexagons and circles that get lighter but following some a herringbone pattern

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

So close. Day 30 of #genuary was abstract maps. I loaded some sidewalk and street info and threw some particles on it to see what would happen. Can you tell where it’s from?

The trails of a bunch of particles moving around an invisible roadmap.

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Day 29 was grid-based design, so digging out the variable-sized tiler. It has some fun interaction with the automatic interpolation too.

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Day 28 of #genuary was infinite scroll (credit @fractalkitty.com !), which made me think about adding a new integration between my system and the MIDI controller I use for shows. I didn’t end up making the dials scroll infinitely, but I did make them start glowing when I reference them in the code!

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Day 27 of #genuary was make something with no randomness or trig, so started working on using the panicle system as a feather generator.

Zoom in on a feather-ish thing, where a curved rachis has barbs branching off

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Day 26 of #genuary was symmetry and I dug up some of my favorites from the kaleido system (I use a lot for livecoding).

Another color palette and another angle of the same

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Day 23 of #genuary was implementing collision detection. Added it to my polygonatum system, which has some other physics already. The shapes nudge each other apart, but there are too many so they overlap, which I think looks cool.

One variation of green petals pulled to the center and then pushed apart by collision detection.

Another variation of the leaves being pulled to the center and then nudged apart with collision detection.

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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

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We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Day 25 of #genuary was just one line, so taking one of the peregrines from a few weeks ago and letting it fly around on its own.

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Day 23 of #genuary was inspired by brutalism so here are some concrete buildings.

A bunch of 3 story concrete buildings. Ignore that they start repeating the last row.

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Day 16 was generative palette. I have a little shader that makes a palette I use a lot, so I pushed it in weird directions. #genuary

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Help how do I deal with all the salt tracked in from Boston’s method of making winter less slippery. My experience from Sweden is useless because they use small rocks there, which hurt to step on but don’t dissolve and become weird textures on my floor.

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Day 20 of #genuary is generative architecture and I wrote something to make steps based on some I saw last time I was in San Francisco.

A few of a lot of steps from the bottom with some interesting landings.

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Doomscrolled today but then the feed told me about Grand Theft Hamlet, which happened to be screening in my city tonight and so I went and saw it and laughed and cried with a bunch of folks in a theater and it was good.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 19/01/2025

Night Watch Oil on Canvas 26×44″ 66×112 cm 2023 Original & prints available earthskyart.ca/shop #art #painting

Painting of dark swirling clouds at night backlit by lightning in the distance

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Gwen Fisher @gwenbeads.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Doodle No. 20 Tribert’s Network  Tribert got a new antenna for his network in hopes of picking up owls. So far, so good.   2.7” by 2.7” Prismacolor black ink and Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils on Stonehenge 250 GSM 100% cotton paper Happy Sunday. Stay connected.  #mathart #network #graph

$Colorful drawing in black ink and colored pencil in muted tones. In the center is a three-eyed, three-footed, three-antennaed alien holding a graph with both hands. The graph fills most of the space and is very complex with a fractal bit on the left. There is an abstract owl who is thinking of a fish, perched on the right.$

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Day 18 of #genuary is: what does wind look like. Here’s one loosely based on how hawks use updrafts to gain altitude so they can glide around.

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Finally trying out Apple Intelligence on my loved ones! Wow!

An AI-generated cartoon trout but its dorsal fin is a man

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Helpful reminder of how to get the first element of an iterator in Rust: tell the element that no one’s first(), and you’re next(). Follow for more helpful tips that are useful for many people and not just for me!

Cover of Modest Mouse’s “no one’s first(), and you’re next()”

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Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · 17/01/2025

What happens if pi=4? For this sketch I used the Taylor series expansion to approximate the sin and cos functions with pi=4. S/N: 2025.017 #genuary2025 #genuary17 #genuary #dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Day 12 of #genuary is subdivisions. Updated my go-to sketch for subdividing to make it weird.

A weird grid of lines stretched out of a box and crammed into a box.

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Julien Gachadoat @julienv3ga.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

A grid of selected plots from November and December 2024. The drawings were created with the same Processing program / algorithm I have been using and refining since 2018, still amazed by the great variety of outputs.

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

6 and & look weirdly similar in some fonts

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Day 11 is impossible day, so I made smoother interpolations between file updates which, when stacked on top of the other features, is kinda weird to reason about. Here’s a demo of it working! Carefully avoiding the cases where it doesn’t.

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Day 10 of #genuary was to only use TAU and no other numbers. I got some of my favorite outputs, from updating day 3’s numbers.

Arcs and lines combination 2, this one got real big arcs

The code showing all of the taus that I’m using!

Arcs and lines combination 3, but this one looks like a very classy paper clip.

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Day 9 of #genuary was public transportation pattern, so this one’s vaguely based on a distant memory of some train seats in Sapporo.

Teals and green overlapping squares, but they get closer together towards the edges.

A muted rainbow color scheme of the same thing.

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Day 8, was drawing a million things! This is drawing around a million samples of shapes.

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A little busy for day 7, but here’s an old project of computer art made with google spreadsheets. #genuary

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this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Day 6 was creating a landscape with geometric primitives. #genuary

Douglas firs on a hill, or stacked triangles offset by sin(x + y)

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