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Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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Grimey Drawer
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3560727

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Jun 3, 2008

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ol qwerty bastard posted:

final thing for tonight: made the ball bounce around in 3d space with a light just off to the right of the screen



tomorrow perhaps... two balls! i already wrote the collision algorithm from my bouncysticky 2d ball program to work in 3d so that should be straightforward; harder will be getting the balls to cast shadows on each other

lol balls

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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seems like a cool spare time project to me, and a fun way to learn some stuff

my spare time projects these days mainly consist of playing civ 4 and drinking

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Jun 3, 2008

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poty posted:

thin people with big eyes are more attractive

now do one with penises

thin penises with big eyes turn out not to be that attractive

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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git clone trooper posted:

lol youre joking right?

...

right?

:smith:

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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Jonny 290 posted:

man its getting dark out, it's about time for jonny to go hog fuckin wild with some electronics project

a friend and i are talking about trying to build a homebrew rov. we're both massively incompetent when it comes to that sort of thing, though, so it will probably be more of a project where we drink a bunch of beer and then break some electronics and cameras by throwing them in the ocean

http://www.homebuiltrovs.com/

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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jonny if we make an rov will you program an arduino so that it automatically hunts fish, jerks them off, then steals their brain for us?

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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Jonny 290 posted:

really i'd just need to add a fish-hunting algorithm to yosvape and we'd be good

if you could make an rov that just puttered around and smoked fish out you would probably win a nobel prize or something

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Jun 3, 2008

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Jonny 290 posted:

its really entertaining how troubleshooting a tiny little circuit board can make it explode into this fuckin six foot wide wire/tentacle demon from hell that is carefully spread over the kitchen table including this one weird wire that has to hang over the arm of a chair so poo poo doesnt fall off the table when you solder on it

discovered by a schoolteacher

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Jun 3, 2008

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echinopsis posted:

so this is culmination of preobaly a year or more of lots of fuckings round in ableton and trying to find a sound i really liked
its probably the first complete musical anything ive ever been content* with in my life, ever since i started playing guitar when i was 14
id appreciate some honest constructive criticism if you are down. i know this is yospos so im expecting nthing but the opposite
https://soundcloud.com/echinopsis/shaumber
excuse the hosed up long end tail of nothing bu noise i cant even export

good music to get murdered to

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Jun 3, 2008

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echinopsis posted:

yeah maybe i should see how it pans out

in case my comment wasn't clear, i meant i liked it and it's creepy

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Jun 3, 2008

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speaking of audio projects, i have spent a lot of time obsessively dicking with this thing

https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/waiting-take-4

it's for a concept album built from astronaut memoir audiobooks, based on the idea that nasa is doing isolation tank experiments trying to drive people crazy. it was supposed to have a lot more text from the books, but i just got obsessed with the idea of trying to recreate the experience of being driven insane by the sound of dripping water and your own breathing. idk, maybe later chapters will be more text-y

should also definitely be listened to while intoxicated, preferably on headphones in a pitch black room floating in a tub of warm water

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Jun 3, 2008

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echinopsis posted:

is your name dan

yeah, like everyone else in australia apparently

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Jun 3, 2008

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spankmeister posted:

and here i thought everyone in oz was named bruce

that was forty years ago mate, s'all dans now

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Jun 3, 2008

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Sagebrush posted:

might haswell cross post the pics here. i finished my bike lights. all told: 100 leds. 1* 2800mW in the head, 2* 2800mW in the tail, 48* 220mW rgb on each side, 1* little status LED. program is mostly just a bunch of state machines and timers, primarily algorithmic stuff like chasers and fades, only a couple of predefined arbitrary sequences. i still have half the program space left, plus more than 2kb of ram and i'm guessing about 2/3 of the clock cycles assuming i didn't do anything stupid, so i can add other features down the line (hall effect sensor, gyroscope, etc)

here are three of the patterns i like best

cga colors


close encounters of the third kind


death star super laser


that is seriously cool

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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i wanna work my way through this some day

http://www.amazon.com/Handmade-Elec...lectronic+music

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Jun 3, 2008

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enotnert posted:

Just got that book trig mentioned.

It's fuckin awesome, already gave me some more ideas about what to do with all these piezos i bought when i decided i wanted to sample a dying hard disk.

coooool

i've had that book sitting around for a long time, i'm jelly that you're actually getting into it

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Jun 3, 2008

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Carthag posted:

wth trig is a good poster dont avoid

tyvm, that was getting hurtful :smith:

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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i called you echidna penis once but i don't think anyone noticed

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Jun 3, 2008

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Detroit Q. Spider posted:

its cool, ill just take your word for it

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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did not know that echinopsis was a cactus genus, that's p drat cool

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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They are remarkable for the great size, length of tube

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Jun 3, 2008

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coffeetable posted:

id need a ~100km resolution to match that. right now it's ~1000km :(.

what really kills is that when you halve the resolution, you have to halve the timestep as well to maintain stability, so the computational demands go up by a factor of 8 (16 if you're working in three dimensions, cause you have to halve the vertical resolution too).

i'm working with some climate modeling bigwigs and they're doing the whole usa at 10 km at 3 minute intervals. takes a while.

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Jun 3, 2008

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ol qwerty bastard posted:

current mars rover stop motion status:



is this going to be a whole silent movie where you tell the story of the two rovers falling in love and how the reason they have gone so far past their intended working life is that their love for each other keeps them strong?

because if so i want to help with the soundtrack

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Jun 3, 2008

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i would f'reals do some soundtracky stuff, that sounds awesome. i've been doing more and more orchestral stuff lately, just learning how to arrange for that sort of setup

speaking of, my latest idiot spare time project is basically just to make myself slap some music together much more often, even if i don't have an endpoint in mind. i've let my current living arrangement get in the way of my music stuff way too much.

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enotnert posted:

I try to do this every other month. Sit down for an hour every day and create a sound. It doesn't matter if it's good, it doesn't matter if it pans out. It matters that I make something, and possibly learn something in the process.

(Hence I have a disassembled speak and spell sitting beside a monotribe that's hooked into my computer with a bunch of wires and pots and switches hanging out of it).

i'm trying to do at least a couple of days a week for a few hours

i did this one over the weekend. i need to switch it up a bit but i like the sound of the thing

https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/damaged-canjo

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echinopsis posted:

sweet man

what you using t do this

that's p much all various kontakt samples and effectrix, arranged in reaper

from memory i think it's action strings, damage, embertone's canjo, signor paganini solo violin, ebow samples, and some cymbal swells. i've only really started to get heavily into using samplers in the past year or so because the current living situation makes it difficult to record my real instruments - too noisy. hence the above push to get in there and make myself do stuff anyway, figuring out how to do something interesting in a way that doesn't really require hooking up a microphone. i'll be able to get back to the real instruments in a few months, which is fun, but for now i'm using this as an opportunity to learn

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Jun 3, 2008

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enotnert posted:

sounds good trig, it does have a nice flow to it.

**edit**

Another thing I do is some other electro synth people, a guitarist, and I get together and just "jam". No edits, just bang out 2 hours of loving around and then throw it on bandcamp.

https://kowalskifamilyhoedown.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-the-lizard-king-and-i-taste-like-chicken

something we made a month back, don't blame me on the names.

cool. i started playing with some new peeps for a bit a few months ago for the first time in years. it was a lot of fun, i forget how much i like just loving around with no real goal in mind. i need to do more of that, but now we're moving again in a couple of months so pffft

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Jun 3, 2008

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AlsoD posted:

spent 3 hours attempting to do trig

i told you right off the bat that i'm married

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Jun 3, 2008

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Symbolic Butt posted:

breeding fractals :getin:

fracking

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ol qwerty bastard posted:

wtf this is after only three generations



i had no idea genetic algos were so powerful

here's my amazingly complex breeding algorithm:

code:
for animals in range(15):
	for chromosomes in range(8):
		for genes in range(8):
			sr = random.randint(0,1)
			genomepool[animals][chromosomes][genes] = parentgenes[sr][chromosomes][genes]
ima add in some random transcription errors and poo poo, but drat i'm honestly impressed with this so far

but evolutionary algorithms can't possibly work because entropy and furthermore jesus

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Jun 3, 2008

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echinopsis i liked your songs but i'm on my ipad on a slow connection so I can't be arsed to go back and quote the thing

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Jun 3, 2008

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echinopsis posted:

its amazing how i can go back and listen to something i made only 2 months ago and think "oh god what was i thinking, i was so young and naive"

this is why it takes me so long to release anything final. I do something, wait a few months, listen, hate it, change it til I like it, wait, repeat ad nauseum

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Jun 3, 2008

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Bensa posted:

Much like journal publications, except DOI are forever.

nah if you gently caress that up, you can always publish a separate paper where you argue the reverse. two pubs for the price of one!

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Jun 3, 2008

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yeah when i was first told to just dump formaldehyde down the sink with a bunch of water i was appalled

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Jun 3, 2008

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syscall girl posted:

filled a growler

i know what this means but it always sounds like a euphemism for taking a poo poo

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Jun 3, 2008

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Sagebrush posted:

yep

but seriously i wear safety glasses and the capacitors are enough to kill if you get blasted with them juuust right but if you keep one hand in your pocket the worst that's going to happen is you get a buzzing hand for a day. it's a lot safer than, say, loading your own ammunition for a rifle

for added safety, the other hand should be making a peace sign or playing the piano

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Jun 3, 2008

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or hire me as assistant gin drinker

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Jun 3, 2008

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wait, not assistant...consultant

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Jun 3, 2008

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Werthog 95 posted:

oh shiiiit

so i bought this stupid thing a couple years ago thinkin i'd hack it or something

turns out they released an arduino project and instructions on controlling it https://github.com/beatbots/MyKeepon
now i gotta figure out something dumb to do with it once my dealextreme arduino gets here

why are you hooking an arduino up to your mac pro

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