Cristi Constantin 🕸 @croqaz@social.privacytools.io

Algorithms for de-duplicating and renaming images in such a way that visually similar images have very similar values.
It doesn’t matter the name of the image file, it's about the content of the image. As a bonus, resizing the image generates very similar values too.

https://crlf.site/log/articles/191219-img-deduplicate-and-rename/

" I think of program­ming like writing or typog­raphy—a skill that can be valu­able to anyone, not just computer scien­tists or profes­sional soft­ware engi­neers. "

-- https://beautifulracket.com/introduction.html

Nice quote

If you want to see a generative art project to blow your brains. I'm in AWE: http://williamsharkey.com/PNG-Gen.html

#generate #art

My most recent "generative" notebook: plotting random noise in color: https://observablehq.com/@croqaz/paper-js-double-randomness?collection=@croqaz/generative

It's a series of notebooks grouped in a bigger collection.
I'm following tutorials and hacking around.

Anything I try to implement on my own is not working. I tried to make some cogs/ wheels, but I don't know how 😜 I tried to make a neon light/ light saber but I can't 😅

I made some spheres though!! https://observablehq.com/@croqaz/paper-js-spheres

I started learning Inkscape these days. I want to learn to generate art and Inkscape is a part of that.
I have so much to catch up to generate anything!
Starting something like that **is SO uncomfortable** because I don't know how to do anything! Even the most simple thing takes AGES to implement!

But it's still a fun thing to try :)

Police reportedly raided the Moscow office of NGINX after a Russian search engine giant claimed ownership of its extremely popular web server code 👇
That's why it's important to work on your part-time projects outside of working hours.

https://businessinsider.in/tech/news/police-reportedly-raided-the-moscow-office-of-nginx-after-a-russian-search-engine-giant-claimed-ownership-of-its-extremely-popular-web-server-code/articleshow/72499099.cms

Starting to go deeper into generative art.
My plan is to follow tutorials until I build the muscle to make my own art.

Made:
https://observablehq.com/@croqaz/random-lines?collection=@croqaz/generative
And
https://observablehq.com/@croqaz/triangular-mesh?collection=@croqaz/generative

So far the most complicated is to "direct" or control randomness.

Everytime I hear a sentence that starts with: "It is known that..." or "It is believed that...", in my head I hear a ding 🔔 ding 🔔 warning ⚠️ warning ⚠️ , because I know that a corporation, or a religious organization, or a political organization is now making a profit thanks to that "belief".

I prefer so remain a sceptic and generally speaking, so should you.

Wheee, my first contribution to Ronin was approved:
https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Ronin/pull/117

I started to look more into computer generated art these days.

Really nice README badges:

https://github.com/aleen42/badges/blob/master/README.md

My bed time is at 11. But I’ll go to sleep at 11:05.
Because I’m a rebel. And a naughty boy.

#rebel #naughty