There are three new tools in the shed. List: a Max/Jitter patch that will advance full resolution video frames while driving the Tobin through a whole roll of single frames film. Call it an automated digital optical printer a Boarduino and prototype shield for interfacing with generalized MIDI streams an interface to John Fletcher’s Integrating [...]
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lumpy time
build a light meter that will fire a frame after receiving an appropriate amount of light shoot things with movement we know well watch the movement changes with the amount of light I’m building a prototype sequence now. I want to see what it would do in the following situations: a bright sunny day with [...]
contact prints from digital negs
Kevin Sullivan is a keener. I spent over an hour on the phone with him yesterday while he told me about his customer’s enthusiasm for alternative photographic processes. The excitement is about the convergence of old and new techniques: making platinum, palladium, kallitype and cyanotype prints from large digital negatives. The process generally goes like [...]
100% Austen
sty·lo·met·rics |stīˈlämitriks|1. A method of studying literary style, frequency of word usage, etc by means of the statistical analysis of a text, usually with the aid of computer programs, which allows for the charting of historical changes in style, the investigation of questions of disputed literary authorship, the authentication or otherwise of written evidence, police [...]
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Picture Programming software requirements
In addition to Python, PIL and ImageMagick, I realized that we’ll need X (for ImageMagick’s “display”) command. Also, it would be handy to have GhostScript running for the cross-system PostScript previewer (“gs”). OSX 1. upgrade to Panther [OSX disk] 2. install X11 [Panther install option] 3. Install Devtools [OSX disk] 4. Install MacPython [MacPython-Panther-2.3-2.dmg] 5. [...]
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sharks series
Andy Kopra has blessed the CIM with his presence this spring (2005). He taught a class called Picture Programming that extended the ideas he hatched while visiting last year. This year I used the ideas to make a short procedural video with watery sharks. Here are a few stills. These frames (and their 447 brethern) [...]
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sharks
Hopelessly obscured by procedural postscripizing, you can see the sharks with just a little prompting. You can see them, right??
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