this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Then I made it agentic, so it sent every button press to the cloud and asked what to display on the screen, and became even slower and more expensive. This version also triple checks the answer with different ways to add 2+2. It costs more than a nickel. 010
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 28/06/2026So now you need WiFi and a subscription to do trivial math. 110
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I took apart a perfectly functional pocket calculator and made it LLM-powered. 121
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Oh wait I can make this better for bluesky than reposting a short-form video… 010
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I made a pocket calculator LLM-powered. As commentary. 041
Reposted by this.xor.thatdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 15/11/2025ok kind of a fun paragraph 560651
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 22/09/2025An American robin. This was the first one I made, so maybe you can tell how the software is improving (I have some flight feather shape blending now.) but it also shows how I’m changing the bird position and movements! 000
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 22/09/2025A male American goldfinch! With the secret debug screen 100
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 22/09/2025I’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! 130
Reposted by this.xor.thatchar stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Remember the bird projections— @thisxorthat.bsky.social show us how they make BIRD VISUALS 121
Reposted by this.xor.thatchar stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Then 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 121
Reposted by this.xor.thatAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025My gender does not recognize the United States 4983127
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Some tests with generating vector stippling based on an input image 070
Reposted by this.xor.thatchar stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Days 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 061
Reposted by this.xor.thatGwen Fisher @gwenbeads.bsky.social · 07/02/2025I 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 2325
Reposted by this.xor.thatJoe Beda @h.olysh.it · 08/02/2025Comment 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. 193749705
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 08/02/2025💚 Oregon www.opb.org/article/2025...opb.orgOregon, Washington sue over Trump order targeting gender-affirming careThe lawsuit accuses the president, and other members of the executive branch, of “attempts to dictate medical care by executive fiat.” 010
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Day 31 of #genuary was pixel sorting, but here’s weird ordered dithering instead 020
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025So 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? 060
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Day 29 was grid-based design, so digging out the variable-sized tiler. It has some fun interaction with the automatic interpolation too. 020
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Day 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! 151
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Day 27 of #genuary was make something with no randomness or trig, so started working on using the panicle system as a feather generator. 080
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Day 26 of #genuary was symmetry and I dug up some of my favorites from the kaleido system (I use a lot for livecoding). 030
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Day 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. 130
Reposted by this.xor.thatAshley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 02/02/2025This 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 utilityvimeo.comWe Have Rights: When Documenting ICE ArrestsThis is "We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests" by MediaTank on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. 8466553418
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Day 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. 030
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Day 23 of #genuary was inspired by brutalism so here are some concrete buildings. 061
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Day 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 072
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Help 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. 000
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Day 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. 030
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Doomscrolled 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. 031
Reposted by this.xor.thatJayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 19/01/2025Night Watch Oil on Canvas 26×44″ 66×112 cm 2023 Original & prints available earthskyart.ca/shop #art #painting 1237958
Reposted by this.xor.thatGwen Fisher @gwenbeads.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Doodle 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 0172
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Day 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. 030
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Finally trying out Apple Intelligence on my loved ones! Wow! 010
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Helpful 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! 030
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 17/01/2025omg, that triangle seems to be having so much fun 010
Reposted by this.xor.thatEdgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · 17/01/2025What 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 2529
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Day 12 of #genuary is subdivisions. Updated my go-to sketch for subdividing to make it weird. 071
Reposted by this.xor.thatJulien Gachadoat @julienv3ga.bsky.social · 12/01/2025A 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. 0603
this.xor.that @thisxorthat.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Day 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. 010