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What happens when you use machine translation on repeating pairs of Japanese syllables? Insane computer poetry (courtesy of Language Log). More examples collected in examples posted by Naomi Clark; likewise from Dan Luu.
posted on May-19-17 at 10:01 AM
Sumaya Agha is an American photographer of Syrian descent, who has among other things spent several years documenting the lives of Syrian refugees in camps and in transit. There's a continuity in her work with families across multiple years, as with young brothers Amir and Ibrahim in 2013 and in 2015.
posted on May-6-17 at 3:30 PM
Phase-Functioned Neural Networks for Character Control, aka holy shit look at this character animation. If you want some more details, check out the research paper by Daniel Holden, Taku Komura, and Jun Saito.
posted on May-2-17 at 6:20 PM
A Generative Approach to Simulating Watercolor Paints, by Tyler Hobbs. via migurski
posted on May-1-17 at 3:11 PM
Grief Is Weird (part 2, part 3) is a short comic by artist Sara Goetter about dealing with losing her mom. (Goetter previously.)
posted on Apr-27-17 at 2:35 PM
Postal Pieces is a series of 11 musical compositions (on 10 postcards) by written by James Tenney between 1965 and 1971. Details and images from an essay by Larry Polansky. I'm particularly fond of the look and sound of Cellogram.
posted on Apr-24-17 at 8:51 AM
Horse Walk Tests
posted on Apr-22-17 at 4:00 PM
An interactive oscilloscope emulator, by thing-maker Neil Thapen.
posted on Apr-21-17 at 1:05 PM
Give up on Your Dreams of Becoming a Baker, a catchy music video by Brian David Gilbert. See also e.g. Thom Yorke was raised in a barn, Justin [Timberlake] checks WebMD, or When I Make a Good Pun.
posted on Apr-20-17 at 11:41 AM
Here's a flickr album of images of and about hitboxes, the simplified mathematical regions—sometimes literally boxes (whether 2D or 3D), sometimes other shapes—used to quickly calculate collisions between objects in video games.
posted on Apr-19-17 at 11:33 AM
Possibly the greatest artifact in the history of the demoscene: DAS BUS, a Powerpoint ode to the shuttlebus.
posted on Apr-18-17 at 11:22 AM
Agnes Denes' Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space-Map Projections is a series of drawings of world maps projected onto non-spherical shapes: pyramid, torus, cube, snail, and so on. Collected in the (very out of print) Map Projections, which you can browse here (or with zooming via a flash version).
posted on Apr-17-17 at 10:36 AM
Nine Polaroid Photographs of a Mirror, by William Anastasi.
posted on Apr-16-17 at 10:02 AM
Head to dwitter to look at and play with (and even create your own) tiny JavaScript demos. Lots of rad programmatic art: scratchy lines, a colorful random walk, some sort of hypercubic butterfly, pulsing and inverting abstract shapes, etc. There's even interactive stuff, both sights and sounds.
posted on Apr-14-17 at 12:15 PM
Steer the last ark of humanity to its new galactic home in brief twine game Seedship.
posted on Apr-12-17 at 2:17 PM
Master Boot Record is a band that makes very good very heavy synthy metal that you should listen to immediately and at a high volume. Their albums include C:\>COPY *.* A: /V, C:\>CHKDSK /F, C:\>EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT, C:\>EDIT CONFIG.SYS, and C:\>FIXMBR. They also make some badass video game soundtrack stuff.
posted on Apr-10-17 at 10:37 AM
Eye Gaze Warping
posted on Apr-8-17 at 12:31 PM
Hi Stranger is a brief animated film by Kirsten Lepore. It features sincere affirmations and also a totally benign claymation butt.
posted on Mar-21-17 at 10:37 AM
Make some weird noises through manual speech synthesis, with the utterly goddam wonderful Pink Trombone. (via waxy.)
posted on Mar-19-17 at 10:22 AM
National treasure and erstwhile Madden-breaker Jon Bois dives deep into the (figuratively and literally) blurry history of Troy State's record-shattering 258-141 victory against DeVry University's basketball team. Except it was actually...253? But DeVry really did have a basketball team. Sometimes. Depending. It's complicated.
posted on Mar-13-17 at 3:42 PM
How do you keep kids from eating your tiny video game cartridges? If you're Nintendo, you coat the damn things with the incredibly potent bitterant Denatonium, the compound usually added to things like methanol, antifreeze, and denatured alcohol. Jealous that your old NES carts don't taste so bad? This educational video will help you make your own!
posted on Mar-2-17 at 3:40 PM
Scott Conary is an oil painter in Portland, Oregon. He paints eggs. Gorgeous, glowing eggs. Also other things, sure. Meat sometimes. But also eggs.
posted on Feb-27-17 at 11:41 AM
@ebaygarfield is a twitter account that posts eBay Garfields
posted on Feb-25-17 at 2:06 PM
Maria Svarbova is a Slovakian photographer who specializes in white and pastel compositions with bright accents, featuring people in carefully static and sometimes eerily affectless poses. The Dining Room. Pool Without Water. Healthy Teeth, Good Mood.
Standing apart somewhat from the rest and visually remarkable in its own right is (n.b. nudity) God's Mirror.
posted on Feb-24-17 at 1:59 PM
Those edit boys at Auralnauts (of whom previously, previously, pre— oh just do a bloody search) are at it again, with an edited dub of Star Wars: A New Hope in which R2-D2 has a speaking voice. (Specifically, that of voice actor Scheiffer Bates.)
posted on Feb-21-17 at 10:52 AM
How many ways can you stack six 2x4 lego bricks? In 1974, LEGO said it was 102,981,500. But! High school student Mikkel Abrahamsen and mathematician Søren Eilers revisited the problem and got 915,103,765. Here's the paper [pdf] with the details and some nice graphs and illustrations. And if that's not enough for you, see also On the entropy of LEGO [pdf] by Eilers and Bergfinnur Durhuus.
posted on Feb-17-17 at 11:39 AM
Save on your art budget: use neural networks to generate new 8-bit pixel art! From a series on machine learning by Adam Geitgey; the whole series is good, but of particular use for some context here are the bits on generating Super Mario levels and convolutional neural networks.
posted on Feb-15-17 at 9:01 AM
Justin Cyr makes pixel art, and has done a number of 32x32 portrait studies using the 16 color MSX palette. Here's 16 portraits. Wait, here's a timelapse of 16 portraits. Hold on, geez, here's 500 portraits. No, wait, shit, here's over a thousand. Also, hey, an animated 8-bit kraken.
posted on Feb-13-17 at 9:23 AM
Calc-Man is a MSDOS-era Pac-Man clone that looks like a spreadsheet, written by Dan Tobias. You can play the DOS version here, or if that's too fancy for you, the older Apple II release.
posted on Feb-12-17 at 9:16 AM
By far the best crappy thing to happen last year was HEBOCON 2016, an annual terrible-robot competition held in Japan in which unskilled amateurs build shitty robots that are bad at fighting. It's wonderful. A bit more from IEEE Spectrum. Previously, the first HEBOCON.
posted on Feb-3-17 at 10:41 AM
Weronika Gęsicka is a Polish photographer and artist who creates surreal, fractured variations on mid-century Americana imagery.
posted on Jan-26-17 at 7:33 AM
Neil Cicierega has released a new mashup album, and it's called Mouth Moods, and you should start listening to it immediately and never stop.
Previously: Mouth Sounds; Mouth Silence.
posted on Jan-23-17 at 8:05 PM
Brainfilling Curves, by Jeffrey Ventrella, is an explanation and exploration of various subspecies of fractal curves, including fat dragons, Gosper islands, and the occasional aggressively self-touching specimen. Also in PDF if you like.
posted on Jan-9-17 at 9:38 AM
Still File, by Skrekkøgle, is a series of photographs staged to resemble e.g. unconvincingly photorealistic raytraced 3D graphics. Making-of photos included. Skrekkøgle hijinks previously.
posted on Jan-2-17 at 10:10 PM
The US Election night isn't over, but the server's capacity to serve tonight's original election thread is, so we're kicking open a new one right here. Hold on to your butts, folks, and be good to each other; see also a MetaTalk logistics thread, and you can hang out in Chat for more free-form chatter; let's try to keep this focused on updates about the national race.
posted on Nov-8-16 at 8:47 PM
Musician and Youtube user Luminist is remaking music from the original Metroid using some full-on synths, and it sounds amazing. Title Theme; Brinstar; Kraid's Lair; Samus Fanfare; Item Room.
posted on Oct-12-16 at 7:49 AM
Garfield. Pokemon. Garfemon.
posted on Sep-21-16 at 9:52 AM
Gunhild Carling is a Swedish jazz musician.
Gunhild Carling plays bagpipe swing.
Gunhild Carling plays three trumpets simultaneously.
Gunhild Carling taps to an SM58 on the floor.
Gunhild Carling will never hurt you.
posted on Sep-13-16 at 6:51 PM
Kill some time building a production line with factoryidle, an idle game about factories.
posted on May-26-16 at 12:37 PM
As far as I can tell, Da mother fuckin share z0ne is basically what you get when you add a lot of skulls and pretty rad, metal-ass fonts to Laughapalooza.
posted on May-22-16 at 10:57 PM
ActualDog is making a game about rectangular pink dogs. This is the development log, which is six pages of amazing gifs of rectangular pink dogs doing rectangular pink dog stuff.
posted on May-12-16 at 10:13 AM
Jason Shulman takes single long-exposure photographs of entire films.
posted on May-11-16 at 8:00 AM
Fingerprints! Everybody's got 'em...except for folks with adermatoglyphia, aka "immigration delay disease", a rare, benign genetic mutation that disrupts the formation of fingerprint ridges by disrupting RNA transcription tied to the SMARCAD1 gene.
posted on Apr-30-16 at 12:03 PM
Remember Hardy Boys #58: Fucking Run, The Sun Exploded? Or the Sweet Valley Twins classic, Go Apologize To God? Relive these and other classic young adult titles, thanks to the literary archivists at Paperback Paradise.
posted on Mar-30-16 at 3:43 PM
Internet person SethBling has successfully coded Flappy Bird inside of Super Mario World, by hand, by playing SMW on actual Super Nintendo hardware in a very peculiar way. Full hour-long process. SethBling's notes for the process. (Previously, on MetaFilter: injecting code in SMW; glitching SMW.)
posted on Mar-28-16 at 1:29 PM
Meet copperhead, a new, weird spaceship that was recently discovered by enthusiasts of Conway's Life.
posted on Mar-14-16 at 8:52 AM
Procedural Snake Eyes is a blog post about varying outcomes and experiential feels in procedural generation, in particular in the tactical spycraft masterpiece Invisible, Inc. and the recently-released XCOM 2, by Rogue Process (gamejam demo!) developer Mike Cook.
posted on Mar-4-16 at 3:44 PM
Feel like collaboratively lying to and with random strangers on the internet? Get your pretending-to-be-something-you-aren't on with Shamchat.
posted on Jan-21-16 at 10:30 AM
John Walker, games writer for Rock Paper Shotgun, eulogizes his father Hugh and reflects on a life spent playing and talking about games together.
posted on Jan-13-16 at 1:06 PM
Thiiisss! Issss....
posted on Oct-28-15 at 2:10 PM
posted on May-19-17 at 10:01 AM
Sumaya Agha is an American photographer of Syrian descent, who has among other things spent several years documenting the lives of Syrian refugees in camps and in transit. There's a continuity in her work with families across multiple years, as with young brothers Amir and Ibrahim in 2013 and in 2015.
posted on May-6-17 at 3:30 PM
Phase-Functioned Neural Networks for Character Control, aka holy shit look at this character animation. If you want some more details, check out the research paper by Daniel Holden, Taku Komura, and Jun Saito.
posted on May-2-17 at 6:20 PM
A Generative Approach to Simulating Watercolor Paints, by Tyler Hobbs. via migurski
posted on May-1-17 at 3:11 PM
Grief Is Weird (part 2, part 3) is a short comic by artist Sara Goetter about dealing with losing her mom. (Goetter previously.)
posted on Apr-27-17 at 2:35 PM
Postal Pieces is a series of 11 musical compositions (on 10 postcards) by written by James Tenney between 1965 and 1971. Details and images from an essay by Larry Polansky. I'm particularly fond of the look and sound of Cellogram.
posted on Apr-24-17 at 8:51 AM
Horse Walk Tests
posted on Apr-22-17 at 4:00 PM
An interactive oscilloscope emulator, by thing-maker Neil Thapen.
posted on Apr-21-17 at 1:05 PM
Give up on Your Dreams of Becoming a Baker, a catchy music video by Brian David Gilbert. See also e.g. Thom Yorke was raised in a barn, Justin [Timberlake] checks WebMD, or When I Make a Good Pun.
posted on Apr-20-17 at 11:41 AM
Here's a flickr album of images of and about hitboxes, the simplified mathematical regions—sometimes literally boxes (whether 2D or 3D), sometimes other shapes—used to quickly calculate collisions between objects in video games.
posted on Apr-19-17 at 11:33 AM
Possibly the greatest artifact in the history of the demoscene: DAS BUS, a Powerpoint ode to the shuttlebus.
posted on Apr-18-17 at 11:22 AM
Agnes Denes' Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space-Map Projections is a series of drawings of world maps projected onto non-spherical shapes: pyramid, torus, cube, snail, and so on. Collected in the (very out of print) Map Projections, which you can browse here (or with zooming via a flash version).
posted on Apr-17-17 at 10:36 AM
Nine Polaroid Photographs of a Mirror, by William Anastasi.
posted on Apr-16-17 at 10:02 AM
Head to dwitter to look at and play with (and even create your own) tiny JavaScript demos. Lots of rad programmatic art: scratchy lines, a colorful random walk, some sort of hypercubic butterfly, pulsing and inverting abstract shapes, etc. There's even interactive stuff, both sights and sounds.
posted on Apr-14-17 at 12:15 PM
Steer the last ark of humanity to its new galactic home in brief twine game Seedship.
posted on Apr-12-17 at 2:17 PM
Master Boot Record is a band that makes very good very heavy synthy metal that you should listen to immediately and at a high volume. Their albums include C:\>COPY *.* A: /V, C:\>CHKDSK /F, C:\>EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT, C:\>EDIT CONFIG.SYS, and C:\>FIXMBR. They also make some badass video game soundtrack stuff.
posted on Apr-10-17 at 10:37 AM
Eye Gaze Warping
posted on Apr-8-17 at 12:31 PM
Hi Stranger is a brief animated film by Kirsten Lepore. It features sincere affirmations and also a totally benign claymation butt.
posted on Mar-21-17 at 10:37 AM
Make some weird noises through manual speech synthesis, with the utterly goddam wonderful Pink Trombone. (via waxy.)
posted on Mar-19-17 at 10:22 AM
National treasure and erstwhile Madden-breaker Jon Bois dives deep into the (figuratively and literally) blurry history of Troy State's record-shattering 258-141 victory against DeVry University's basketball team. Except it was actually...253? But DeVry really did have a basketball team. Sometimes. Depending. It's complicated.
posted on Mar-13-17 at 3:42 PM
How do you keep kids from eating your tiny video game cartridges? If you're Nintendo, you coat the damn things with the incredibly potent bitterant Denatonium, the compound usually added to things like methanol, antifreeze, and denatured alcohol. Jealous that your old NES carts don't taste so bad? This educational video will help you make your own!
posted on Mar-2-17 at 3:40 PM
Scott Conary is an oil painter in Portland, Oregon. He paints eggs. Gorgeous, glowing eggs. Also other things, sure. Meat sometimes. But also eggs.
posted on Feb-27-17 at 11:41 AM
@ebaygarfield is a twitter account that posts eBay Garfields
posted on Feb-25-17 at 2:06 PM
Maria Svarbova is a Slovakian photographer who specializes in white and pastel compositions with bright accents, featuring people in carefully static and sometimes eerily affectless poses. The Dining Room. Pool Without Water. Healthy Teeth, Good Mood.
Standing apart somewhat from the rest and visually remarkable in its own right is (n.b. nudity) God's Mirror.
posted on Feb-24-17 at 1:59 PM
Those edit boys at Auralnauts (of whom previously, previously, pre— oh just do a bloody search) are at it again, with an edited dub of Star Wars: A New Hope in which R2-D2 has a speaking voice. (Specifically, that of voice actor Scheiffer Bates.)
posted on Feb-21-17 at 10:52 AM
How many ways can you stack six 2x4 lego bricks? In 1974, LEGO said it was 102,981,500. But! High school student Mikkel Abrahamsen and mathematician Søren Eilers revisited the problem and got 915,103,765. Here's the paper [pdf] with the details and some nice graphs and illustrations. And if that's not enough for you, see also On the entropy of LEGO [pdf] by Eilers and Bergfinnur Durhuus.
posted on Feb-17-17 at 11:39 AM
Save on your art budget: use neural networks to generate new 8-bit pixel art! From a series on machine learning by Adam Geitgey; the whole series is good, but of particular use for some context here are the bits on generating Super Mario levels and convolutional neural networks.
posted on Feb-15-17 at 9:01 AM
Justin Cyr makes pixel art, and has done a number of 32x32 portrait studies using the 16 color MSX palette. Here's 16 portraits. Wait, here's a timelapse of 16 portraits. Hold on, geez, here's 500 portraits. No, wait, shit, here's over a thousand. Also, hey, an animated 8-bit kraken.
posted on Feb-13-17 at 9:23 AM
Calc-Man is a MSDOS-era Pac-Man clone that looks like a spreadsheet, written by Dan Tobias. You can play the DOS version here, or if that's too fancy for you, the older Apple II release.
posted on Feb-12-17 at 9:16 AM
By far the best crappy thing to happen last year was HEBOCON 2016, an annual terrible-robot competition held in Japan in which unskilled amateurs build shitty robots that are bad at fighting. It's wonderful. A bit more from IEEE Spectrum. Previously, the first HEBOCON.
posted on Feb-3-17 at 10:41 AM
Weronika Gęsicka is a Polish photographer and artist who creates surreal, fractured variations on mid-century Americana imagery.
posted on Jan-26-17 at 7:33 AM
Neil Cicierega has released a new mashup album, and it's called Mouth Moods, and you should start listening to it immediately and never stop.
Previously: Mouth Sounds; Mouth Silence.
posted on Jan-23-17 at 8:05 PM
Brainfilling Curves, by Jeffrey Ventrella, is an explanation and exploration of various subspecies of fractal curves, including fat dragons, Gosper islands, and the occasional aggressively self-touching specimen. Also in PDF if you like.
posted on Jan-9-17 at 9:38 AM
Still File, by Skrekkøgle, is a series of photographs staged to resemble e.g. unconvincingly photorealistic raytraced 3D graphics. Making-of photos included. Skrekkøgle hijinks previously.
posted on Jan-2-17 at 10:10 PM
The US Election night isn't over, but the server's capacity to serve tonight's original election thread is, so we're kicking open a new one right here. Hold on to your butts, folks, and be good to each other; see also a MetaTalk logistics thread, and you can hang out in Chat for more free-form chatter; let's try to keep this focused on updates about the national race.
posted on Nov-8-16 at 8:47 PM
Musician and Youtube user Luminist is remaking music from the original Metroid using some full-on synths, and it sounds amazing. Title Theme; Brinstar; Kraid's Lair; Samus Fanfare; Item Room.
posted on Oct-12-16 at 7:49 AM
Garfield. Pokemon. Garfemon.
posted on Sep-21-16 at 9:52 AM
Gunhild Carling is a Swedish jazz musician.
Gunhild Carling plays bagpipe swing.
Gunhild Carling plays three trumpets simultaneously.
Gunhild Carling taps to an SM58 on the floor.
Gunhild Carling will never hurt you.
posted on Sep-13-16 at 6:51 PM
Kill some time building a production line with factoryidle, an idle game about factories.
posted on May-26-16 at 12:37 PM
As far as I can tell, Da mother fuckin share z0ne is basically what you get when you add a lot of skulls and pretty rad, metal-ass fonts to Laughapalooza.
posted on May-22-16 at 10:57 PM
ActualDog is making a game about rectangular pink dogs. This is the development log, which is six pages of amazing gifs of rectangular pink dogs doing rectangular pink dog stuff.
posted on May-12-16 at 10:13 AM
Jason Shulman takes single long-exposure photographs of entire films.
posted on May-11-16 at 8:00 AM
Fingerprints! Everybody's got 'em...except for folks with adermatoglyphia, aka "immigration delay disease", a rare, benign genetic mutation that disrupts the formation of fingerprint ridges by disrupting RNA transcription tied to the SMARCAD1 gene.
posted on Apr-30-16 at 12:03 PM
Remember Hardy Boys #58: Fucking Run, The Sun Exploded? Or the Sweet Valley Twins classic, Go Apologize To God? Relive these and other classic young adult titles, thanks to the literary archivists at Paperback Paradise.
posted on Mar-30-16 at 3:43 PM
Internet person SethBling has successfully coded Flappy Bird inside of Super Mario World, by hand, by playing SMW on actual Super Nintendo hardware in a very peculiar way. Full hour-long process. SethBling's notes for the process. (Previously, on MetaFilter: injecting code in SMW; glitching SMW.)
posted on Mar-28-16 at 1:29 PM
Meet copperhead, a new, weird spaceship that was recently discovered by enthusiasts of Conway's Life.
posted on Mar-14-16 at 8:52 AM
Procedural Snake Eyes is a blog post about varying outcomes and experiential feels in procedural generation, in particular in the tactical spycraft masterpiece Invisible, Inc. and the recently-released XCOM 2, by Rogue Process (gamejam demo!) developer Mike Cook.
posted on Mar-4-16 at 3:44 PM
Feel like collaboratively lying to and with random strangers on the internet? Get your pretending-to-be-something-you-aren't on with Shamchat.
posted on Jan-21-16 at 10:30 AM
John Walker, games writer for Rock Paper Shotgun, eulogizes his father Hugh and reflects on a life spent playing and talking about games together.
posted on Jan-13-16 at 1:06 PM
Thiiisss! Issss....
Jeffpardyposted on Oct-28-15 at 2:10 PM
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