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Last Notes npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt The End Of A Long Summer (2023) npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Each time I see this "diagram", I'm instantly reminded of this classic paper: npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt A/B testing latest refinements (more depth, better details in clouds/highlights and contrast in mid tones). First image is the new version. Next stop double size, 14x10"... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Vielen Dank an @nprofile…f2qu für diese Initiative! 🙏 npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt On the way to Roßgundscharte (2021) npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt For two decades I've been making that same point (below), also specifically for computational/algorithmic art. It's also been a key topic in many of my past workshops. More than just being about performance, data structure literacy (at least awareness of options) can be a powerful tool/help for expressing and actualizing ideas in the first place, especially for interactive situations (where using the right or wrong data structure can be a make-or-break in some situations). npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…huat Congrats! 🙌 How does one learn about calls for submission? Are they doing these regularly? I'd have a few myself... :) npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Witness the fitness! Still one of the finest music videos ever made: npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…kfcf Fully agree! Can only see this challenge happening via some form of self-inflicted "correction" trigger, e.g. circular financing schemes running out of steam, increased risk or unwillingness/inability to fully commission hyperscale data centers, e.g. see Microsoft's challenges in Kenya and general DC cancellations in US... It seems things are moving (more)... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…kfcf That's be great, but as long as AI is the only perceived growth engine left running, I'm not sure there's political will for this (anywhere) to throw any spanners into its more widespread adoption... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…kfcf Ok, I grant that direct political polls using this method are probably some ways out, but indirectly using simulated polls to easier support a company's position/strategy to then use as tool for lobbying purposes to impact/nudge policies isn't that far fetched at all... Regulators & politicians are picking up these polls and using them (in part) for decision making, just as is done already. But the danger here is that these polls do not represent actual people's opinions, and that all sorts of subtle biases can be introduced via agent modeling/prompting, even more so than via clever formulation and framing of questions in traditional polls (plus let's not forget all the pretrained biases in the LLM corpus). The proposed approach is much more open for increased gaming & manipulation, akin to the impact dangers of Polymarkets on policy making & insider trading etc. Conceptually, this simulated approach also fully embraces the idea of intersectional demographic groups only exhibiting "hive mind" behaviors, maybe with a modeled x% contrarian rate... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Simulated opinion polls to drive public policy — what could possibly go wrong! npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt The Swiss are still doing better in that respect than many other developed countries, incl. Germany yesterday: npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt The Mountains Flowed Before Him (2026) npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Churfirsten npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt ...and because sometimes a video is worth a 1000 images, here's a short clip from the earlier mountain pass nearby, giving more of an impression of the mood of this place! npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Kellenspitze (2025) npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt The experiments, process adjustments and elimination of environmental factors shall continue until the desired results are obtained (and morale improves again... 😅) npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…3ag6 It is a bit tight at the top, but I noticed it too late and also didn't have a wider lens with me... I've got another few alt takes though, might have to check those & re-edit. Thank you for the kind words though! :) npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…rk6f I was actually planning to make a Kallitype of this tonight, thank you for the encouragement! Blushing here... :) npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…rk6f Thank you! :) I loved that the peak looks so imposing from that perspective, because there're two large steps (each with a small lake) in between which are cutting off the view... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt In The Lechtal Alps (2024) npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Last Light, Last Look Back (Vol.2) npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Last Light, Last Look Back... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt James Shinra is a rare talent, his music effortlessly blending (sub)genres/styles, full of unexpected developments/quirks/glitches, incredible sound design & production and generally and one of my fave artists on the Analogical Force label roster... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Short 35 second video summary of a kallitype test print development from last night, showing the many different color changes a print undergoes before one can actually fully check the final result. With a trained eye, you can already make a determination quite early on, but in general each of the stages has potential to throw your expectations, sometimes tones even shift in the 24h-48h after initial drying... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…eq7c 🤩 Yeah, I read it around 2010, but also feel it's very much due for a revisit. It's been one of the books I found very hard to put down and inspiring on so many levels (Diamond Age being another fave). Also hard to stop thinking about in general long after reading (at least these parts of the plot, some other aspects also could have easily been culled IMO...) npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Can't stop thinking about the world building exercise/setup in Stephenson's Anathem where the "avout" (aka intelligentsia) were forced to live in gated monastic communities isolated to varying degrees (and by rank[1]) from secular society. This setup was decided on for a number of self-serving reasons (by the avout), but also largely imposed on them due to a long history where technology & academic pursuits led to several catastrophic events, incl. periodic civilizational collapses triggered by knowledge/research either being weaponized, irresponsibly commercialized and/or unleashed at a rate which society simply couldn't culturally/ethically/politically handle... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt #ReleaseThursday A historic moment in the https://thi.ng/umbrella microverse! npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…y2sx Looks great! Would it be possible to release a version which also still supports iOS 18.x or do you rely on features of the latest version? npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt It's probably a lost cause and also too short notice, but I'm still thinking about #AlgoApril, which I proposed back in 2022, but it's an incomplete list of prompts and sadly never took off... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt PSA: Migrating the https://thi.ng/umbrella monorepo to Codeberg, including: npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Wonderfully, trippy faux-ASCII art, textmode demo from last year, with/for @nprofile…anth - BRAVO! 👏🤩 npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt #LazyWeb question: Looking at the #Meshtastic world map[1], it seems Iran's internet/comms shutdown[2] is also including #LoRa bands, but it's hard to find conclusive information about it, though I would assume that if a govt/regime is cutting off comms, it's doing so comprehensively... Of course, there's the (unlikely) possibility for there to be zero nodes in the country to begin with... Anyone knows more? npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt After He's Gone. npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…e90f Yeah, I also just wrote about it earlier: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116283811297850580 npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt "If there’s one insight we all need to focus on most, it’s this: your job is no longer to build a destination. It’s to build a parts library. And one that’s well documented so that when an AI agent re-assembles those parts for the human on the other side, the parts are put together in a way you wish to be represented. npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…5jnf Congrats! I'm hoping to do it this year (that one or Kuchelbergkopf/spitze)... But I think the views might be better/farther from Frieder, no? npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Behold, The Imposing Frieder (2053m). npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…3mmh Bonneville, Columbia? Miss driving that road... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…x8j4 @nprofile…crwx Not exactly EU (UK based), but fully offline capable and uses same encrypted database format as open source Keepass, also offers various sync options: npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt First weekend of spring, but dreaming of autumn... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Today is UN World Day for Glaciers, so I'm re-posting some relevant messages & personal experiences with disappearing glaciers in the Alps: npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt As is somewhat customary, spring time is maintenance time and so this past week was again "infrastructure week" in #ThingUmbrella land, updating various tool scripts, switching to Rclone for uploading/syncing API docs, updating/pinning Prettier version & config, reformatting thousands of source files, re-uploading hundreds of MB of documentation for all current 214 projects, updating package metadata etc. npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Correlation does not imply causation (or does it? 🙃)... just look at what happened to the stock price of one of my previous employers after I left the company after 5 years in summer 2021... What goes up must come down... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt I'd actually argue it's the opposite: Claude & co are unarguably inserting subtle (and not so subtle) bugs into your code... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Historic Glacial Confluence npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Linear Memory (2024) npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt If you're reading only one thing today, let it be this thread below, connecting the Straight of Hormuz with the recursive risks & dependencies to fertilizers, food safety, energy, minerals, EV & AI build out, asymmetric military spending (also just saw another related report about US stockpile depletion in Financial Times) etc. npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt PSA since more people are still asking about the recipe for this recent quick apple cake I posted, but seemingly aren't seeing my reply in the thread... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Also, to compare, here's the final TL intro sequence (again, as mentioned earlier, I had nothing to do with this final version): npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt I was looking for these diagrams yesterday, but only just found them again... A visual overview of the toxiclibs library collection made with some of the libraries themselves, creating a nested force-directed graph from a folder structure (file system tree)... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…6t2a Any polygon boundary was easily possible (also see T-shape in last image at the start of this thread), but depending on agent behavior params might not be able to get fully explored. Morphing between boundaries isn't easily possible, since the "collision" with the boundary and the subsequent rerouting and direction changes are quickly adding up and then lead to completely different paths taken... one way to avoid this resulting jittering would be to let old paths just disappear/fade out, but that would make a morphing boundary generally more fuzzy (depending on life span of each path/trace)... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt A short screen recording of the second prototype mentioned earlier (also an early WIP version with still quite a few obvious visual issues)... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt A short screen recording of the second prototype mentioned earlier (also an early WIP version with still a lot of obvious problems)... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Some _very_ early algorithm concept/pre-viz sketches/explorations for the Tron Legacy (2010) intro sequence. They informed another concept/approach in which we applied a similar algorithm to progressively trace out edges of an initially invisible and super detailed 3D city mesh. This required a lot of effort to retopologize the (huge) geometry supplied and creating a multi-res navigation graph to prioritize long/major edges over shorter ones, filter out undesired edges/directions, thereby creating a visual reveal in which the agents progressed from tracing out super low-res boxes to high-res architectural features... Eventually, both of these prototypes weren't used though, and the director & team opted for a more stripped down solution with much fewer agents/traces, created in Houdini... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…ft7j Yeah, it's because the standard COCOMO model is pretty old and was meant to not be US-centric. But yeah, with recent US salaries that number would be much, much larger. Even so, I've never managed (or worked towards) monetizing even close to 1% of this... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Finally have been trying out https://github.com/boyter/scc for counting (unique) lines of code, comments, DRYness and complexity and getting a better and more aggregated overview of the scale of my https://thi.ng/umbrella monorepo. SCC is really much better and faster than what I've using previously (cloc) and also provides more meaningful results, including COCOMO project stats. npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt #MonochromeMonday npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…6ngt Hehe... I don't really have a recipe for this, it's all just freestyling and only takes me around 15 mins to prepare (it's super easy), but I wrote it down now: npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Big/important day, little gestures of appreciation... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Wichtigste Mitteilung an alle wählenden Bürger*innen heute: #NoAfD #FckAfD npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Golden Hour Pastoral npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…dhj6 Speaking from previous experience, I don't think this is ever going to happen... If there's one thing ALL emacs users have in common, it's a never ending filing and polishing of their elaborate config file(s). I cannot imagine this has changed in recent years, has it?! 🙃 npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…dhj6 Ohhh.. Thank you, that'll be helpful, I'm sure! 🙏 npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…yxlh @nprofile…dhj6 Thanks, that's great to hear! I tried switching back a few years ago, but that was before lsp-mode and tree-sitter, will try again... I also just noticed my 10 year old init.el does not work anymore, so I guess I would have to start from scratch again... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…622w That's what I thought initially too, but I wasn't sure if they just renamed Intellisense to Intellicode and then just deprecated it to eventually extract subscription fees. I only really need the traditional LSP stuff, so that's great to know! 🙏 npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt With Microslop having deprecated the Intellicode auto-completion extension in #VSCode and sooner or later forcing everyone to use cloud-based #Copilot instead, are there any other #TypeScript users who're not interested in switching to Copilot and if so what non-AI based alternatives are you seeing/using? I'm very tempted going back to using Emacs, but it's been years and I've never used TypeScript with it. Grateful for any advice or insights (not limited to Emacs only)! npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…0s7u @nprofile…9rzv Great idea! npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…0s7u @nprofile…9rzv To me he's always been one of the most interesting people of the Detroit techno scene, and in hindsight, from the outset many of his productions were way more complex, varied, multi-layered and ahead of their time and think have aged very well (compared to maybe some more well known peers). Highly recommend digging into his back catalogue... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…3820 Some encouragement for you :) One of the few TED talks worth rewatching... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt More of John Beltran, Detroit's finest... This time one of my fave tracks from his 2020 album The Season Series (the entire album is absolutely stunning and true soul food): npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Golden glow npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…mpl5 Your workshop outlines & reports do sound like a good time, though! :) When I was still regularly running coding workshops, spending quality time with like-minded people was also quickly one of my top priorities. I do miss it (because each time I also learned a ton of new things), and I always hoped/dreamed to be able to also run some longer in-depth sessions in nature (e.g. a creative coding/craft camp in some mountain hut), but general changes in tech/culture/outlook and my own severe imposter syndrome have put a halt to it... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…mpl5 If that isn't an endorsement, then I don't know what is... It's also very much the same vibe I get from the (admittedly/sadly very few) videos I've watched so far... ❤️ npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…ahu7 Yeah, same! I will also do some more reading/testing! It's good to compare notes, though! Also, I'm in Germany, so sadly no B&S products available here, but I'm mixing everything from scratch... :) npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…ahu7 Ps. Going to be reading & comparing notes tonight: npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…ahu7 The way I understand it is that ammonium citrate acts as a restrainer, slowing down reduction/development and thereby causing smaller silver halides, which are then perceived as cooler tones by our eyes. Also similar reason why tartaric acid also shouldn't be more than 1.5-2%, since it then starts forming strong silver complexes which precipitate as coarser particles (aka warm/brown tones)... But again, this is just second hand knowledge from when I first learned about kallitype 10 years ago... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…ahu7 Hah, I've re-ordered ammonium citrate only last week, but you're using it 50/50?! From what I learned (and maybe I misremember), but for acetate systems, ammonium should only be <3% to avoid shifting the pH too much and reducing Dmax, risking generally flatter contrast... will have to play around with that! Thank you :) npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…ahu7 After some back and forth, I've settled on 6-7 mins in 18% sodium acetate (+ ~1% tartaric acid) for the past 6 weeks or so. I usually also add one or two drops of 5% ammonium dichromate to the emulsion to raise contrast. All prints are toned in a very weak 1:100 Se toner, just before final wash. But even with those things being mostly constants in my process, I'm continuously experimenting with different durations & concentrations of the processing stages, with sometimes quite unexpected results... I've started doing some test prints of my generative art pieces[1] and for those I think I'll be switching to gold toner for cooler tones. npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…aphs 🤩 npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…m978 Hehe... Instant throwback to a similar procedural modeling exercise I created when teaching a Houdini workshop 9 years ago (almost to the day) 🤝🙌 npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…ul29 Yes, these are absolute lovely works! So annoyed though, I forgot about this album earlier... Thank you! 🤩 npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Shot ...and chaser (and it's only Tuesday): Two new 8x6" prints done over the weekend, from one of my fave repeat hikes in the Allgäuer Alps... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Three super minimal TB-303 tracks for #303Day... I think I shared some of them previously, but hey... how has this been already a year again?! npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Rays of hope... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…0xu8 I have a feeling that disinterest in software optimization (or actual resource/limit-aware computing) might be coming back again soon... not necessarily by choice! npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt #ReleaseSunday 🎉 Quite a few https://thi.ng/column-store updates over the past month, including further performance optimizations, more tests and documentation updates... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…5hrt Iss' schon gut! :) Man weiß ja aber nie, wer hier zur Kunstpolizei gehört... 🙃 npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…5hrt Wow, I hope you only meant to report back _to_ me... Otherwise, that escalated quickly! 😅 npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…5hrt That's the thing... I don't know if it still exists. The project is from 2007. I'd hope it's still there, though! npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Related to #BoneConduction: One of the most moving art pieces and concepts I know of is (was?) the "Touched Echo" installation by Markus Kison in the center of Dresden, allowing visitors to "hear" the sounds of the British carpet-bombing air raid from February 13, 1945, when they rest their elbows on the railing near the river and hold their ears closed... Nothing is heard/felt by any bystanders nearby... Such a powerful concept and window to the past! npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…ft7j Very pleased to hear that it (you!!) did well! Very encouraging (in this day and age)! npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…rwvd Thank you, that'd be super interesting to see! Haven't done dry plates yet myself, but keeping a watchful eye on available options & experience reports... :) npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt As beautiful, luxurious and fragile as the cover art... npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt @nprofile…rwvd Are these the new machine-coated Zebra plates already? Are you going to post any scans? Would love to see a comparison... ;) npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Bergrücken npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Bergrücken npub13t480fdgej2k3fjk5e7sqhqks7wnlgldmpwsec7772z4pyr3yumq2wn30g Karsten Schmidt Early morning in Ötztal
