23 juni
2008
piksel08 - code dreams :: open call
**Piksel08: code dreams
December 4-7 2008
Bergen, Norway
How does code dream? What are the dreams of code?
Piksel08 examines the other side of code, an alternative side to a hard-coded reality of work and play. Open hardware and free software project a utopic vision, yet exist within economies of capital, the dream factory of
mainstream technology. Within the chance meeting of sewing machine and umbrella on the dissecting table, hardware and software are flattened.
Piksel08: code dreams explores the dreams of this soft machine; bachelors coding for pleasure, reverse engineering paranoiac constructs of the real, automatic coding practice, soft hardware, and everyday magic.
Open call for projects!
19 juni
2008
Call for projects - make art 2008
MAKE ART 2008 - OpenOS
CALL FOR PROJECTS
Make Art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art.
The third edition of make art - OpenOS - will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 24th to the 30th of November 2008.
make art offers performances, presentations, workshops and an exhibition, focused on the blurred line between art and software programming.
We're currently seeking new, innovative FLOSS based works and projects: music and audiovisual performances, presentations, software demos, and installations.
This year make art focuses on the *OpenOS*: artistic, free, creative use of the Operating System, hackability and modularity of FLOSS and GNU/Linux, scripts as digital glue between applications, enhanced possibilities for the technical expression of ideas, user empowerment and artistic freedom.
For more details, please visit http://makeart.goto10.org/call
14 juni
2008
GEGL-0.0.18 released
GEGL 0.0.18
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GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) is a graph based image processing framework.
GEGL provides infrastructure to do demand based cached non destructive image
editing on larger than RAM buffers. Through babl it provides support for a
wide range of color models and pixel storage formats for input and output.
This development release will include optimizations for the cpu capabilities
of the host system. Pass --disable-mmx and --disable-sse to configure to
disable these when building packages that should work on a wider range of
hardware. Making GEGL adapt at runtime is a blocker for the next release.
There is no new API in this release thus bindings do not need to be updated.
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11 juni
2008
New frei0r effects: edgeglow & k-means clustering
The edgeflow filter works as follows:
first a sobel filter is applied. The "lightness" of the resulting pixel is examined, where lightness is defined as (max+min)/2. Max and min are max(R,G,B) and min(R,G,B).
The lightness is then compared to a threshold value (set by the user from 0 - 255). If the lightness is > threshold, then the HSL (hue, saturation, lightness) values of the original pixel are computed. The two lightness values are added using a scaling factor for the sobel pixel. Finally the HSL values are converted back to RGB space to give the result.
Optionally, pixels where the sobel value is below the threshold can be darkened, to provide a heightened contrast effect.
The filter can be downloaded here:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~salsaman/edgeglow.tar.bz2
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The cluster plugin is an implementation of the popular and relatively simple k-means clustering algorithm, where regions of an image are identified by their proximity in color and space to cluster centers and assigned the average color of the region. The cluster centers are updated each frame with the average location of all the points in the region. If distance is given the most weight it looks like a voronoi diagram.
Demonstration video here made in gephex:
http://vimeo.com/1059913
Source and linux i386 .so here:
http://binarymillenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/frei0r/cluster/
05 juni
2008
freej 0.10 released
a new FreeJ 0.10 "scripting in the bush" release is out!
http://freej.dyne.org
quickly get the sourcecode from:
ftp://ftp.dyne.org/freej/releases/freej-0.10.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.dyne.org/freej/releases/freej-0.10.tar.gz.asc
announced and demonstrated directly from the LPM VJ Festival in Roma
http://lpm.flyer.it/2008/programme/dett_639.htm
for full information please refer to the README and other
documentation found in ftp://ftp.dyne.org/freej
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Lumiera Developers meeting
the next Lumiera developer meeting is scheduled on
Thursday the 5. June 2008 at 21:00 UTC
The meeting will be held on irc.freenode.net in #lumiera
The agenda for this meeting is at
http://www.pipapo.org/pipawiki/Lumiera/MonthlyMeetings
Not much Topics so far, please feel free to add further topics.
One point to discuss will be how to organize the further GUI planning/brainstorming such that:
- we don't loose any good ideas
- we don't work against each other
- we don't get carried away by dreaming about features we don't have the resources to implement on a reasonable time scale.
We know the time of the meeting may be a problem for people living in Asia or "down under". We are willing to use a alternating time scheme if necessary. So please speak up, if you'd want to attend on a regular base but can't because of the meeting time!
