@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngSince we had temperatures of -15/-13℃ (5℉) the past few nights, I was planning to go on an early morning shoot of one of my favorite waterfalls, but decided against it due to severe black ice warnings and likely ensuing road chaos today... Hope there will be more cold nights this winter...
So instead, some close-up detail shots of ice structures at the same waterfall from exactly 364 morning ago. Enjoy!
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngFor #TextModeTuesday, some fonts from my old demoscene days, recreated in 2022 for an example project of my opensource libraries:
Figlet style text generator using big fonts:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/big-font/
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialIf you're journaling with WordPress, you might want to consider this plugin: https://repos.mxhdr.net/maxheadroom/fedi-journal-plugin
It lets you sent messages from the Fediverse to your WordPress Author profile and appends those to a weekly draft post. At the end of th…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngInto The Couloir...
(Throwback to early June 2023, when the Dolomites were still half in winter mode...)
#ThrowbackThursday #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite …
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafe @toxi@mastodon.thi.ngI don't think I'll ever tire of these magic moments when a print first appears almost out of nowhere when pouring developer over it...
(The image is another one of my ancient art pieces from 2010/11, a rendered detail of the skeleton of one of the generative characters made for a collection of 100 3D printed sculptures)
Thanks to @… for being m…
@jake4480@c.imOkay fedi, I need to buy a string trimmer (weed wacker). Anyone have brand preferences for modern, fairly affordable ones?
#AskFedi
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeGood Morning Fedi!
💿 【Music Video】「雪降る夜に」
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZKlJ7E2yCQ
🎵 https://song.link/y/3ZKlJ7E2yCQ
@andycarolan@social.lolGive @… a follow!
I’m trying to ease her further into fedi and away from zuck’s platforms!
#follow
@peter_mcmahan@mas.to @toxi@mastodon.thi.ngReflective pause in Cirque de Troumouse, Pyrenees (just too grand to photograph)...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyzMy favorite Organum record! David Jackman got his start in Cornelius Cardew’s Scratch Orchestra and continued down his own improvising path. In the 1990’s he collaborated with a variety of artists, but that fizzled out by the end of the century. His newer records are available from Die Stadt or a distributor in your country.
https://…
@groupnebula563@mastodon.socialI am watching the #GameAwards through fedi. and by that I mean I am just seeing posts about it in my feed and trying to figure out what’s going on from that
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafe@… Ich muss dir was zeigen: https://mastodon.art/@Dinosalabs/116040669912930515
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeI often here about social media being bad for your mental health, but I find the way I use it (Fedi only) is good for mine.
It's fun as heck here! :3
@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.comhappy new year from vnc resolver and the folks at computernewb! 2025 was a shit year, if im being honest, but i'd just like to thank all of you for enjoying unsecure shit on the internet. and yuri. and furries.
--brew
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngAeolian dune simulation (made in 2017) for #MeerMittwoch:
The images show a screenshot of the JavaScript application to create the simulation and some Houdini renders of exported height fields. The sim itself had 5 macro params to control the behavior of the interactive deposit/erosion/transportation process. It supported tileable patterns, customizable seed terrain (images) and ran r…
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeGood Morning Fedi!
💿 ゆるめるモ！『ポンコツチキンヒーロー』Dance Practice
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl7DbXVQ-qs
🎵 https://song.link/y/Jl7DbXVQ-qs
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafeGuten Morgen allerseits. Habt den Tag schön und einen guten Start in die neue Woche! 🐻❄️
@felwert@fedihum.orgI don't get the #matrix hate on Fedi. Apparently federation is only desirable as long as the government doesn't use it?
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngGrungyDistanceFunctionVoronoiPixelArt for #TextureTuesday...
These are some selected snapshots of a single [endless] variation of my generative De/Frag V2 piece from 2021, an intentional attempt at creatively breaking the traditional aesthetic of #Voronoi diagrams and revealing the inne…
@padraig@mastodon.ie*tinfoil hat* Isn't it a little weird that one of the biggest instances on Fedi is asking for funding to personal PayPal/Ko-Fi/Patreon accounts and not a community pot like OpenCollective? 🤔
#noxp
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng#ReleaseThursday 🎉 Just pushed a new version of the https://thi.ng/column-store database and query engine which adds support for new column types (fixed-size n-dimensional int/uint/float vectors) and RLE (run-…
@qbi@freie-re.deWill man ein Konto bei #Mastodon, muss man einen Server wählen. Dazu geht man auf
- https://fedi.garden/ oder
-
@solawi@social.tchncs.deIm Januar geht es weiter mit unserer Web-Seminar-Reihe, zu der alle Organisationen der Sozialen und Solidarischen Ökonomie herzlich eingeladen sind:
Fit für Solawi
Infos zu den Terminen und Anmeldung
👉 https://www.solidarische-landwirtschaft.or
@aral@mastodon.ar.al> “almost everyone at Vimeo was laid off,” including the entire video team
Capitalism, working as designed.
Oh, you thought it was about making shiny, fun things for you play with? Oh, my sweet, summer child, no… capitalism is about fuck you.
Why?
Because. @…
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafeGestern hatte ich das Vergnügen jemanden im sogenannten real life zu treffen, den ich vorher nur von hier kannte. 😁
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngDemocracy dies behind closed doors...
https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/115539210365913782
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeHandy references for orders of bity magnitude:
* 1 kbity ≈ average catgirl
* 1 Mbity ≈ CCC
* 1 Gbity ≈ all of fedi
@cdarwin@c.imThis is a human-curated small selection of interesting accounts to help you get started on Mastodon and the Fediverse.
Once you follow a few people on a particular topic, you will discover even more people through all the posts they share etc.
For more info on how to follow the accounts listed, see the Help section
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@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza @toxi@mastodon.thi.ng#ThrowbackThursday Platinum printing session at the now defunkt Oregon College of Art and Craft. The pictures are from an unforgettable winter hike in the Eagle Creek valley, just a few days prior (and 6 months before a wild fire consumed the entire valley)...
(Also see my prev. message for my new darkroom setup :)
@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.comy'all mad and unfollowing like the last yuri post wasn't less than a month ago
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeCatSalad Executive Order #133767
All fedi users shall be required to return to our roots and only use Comic Sans font from now on! Bring back graphic design to our communications shitposts.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngLatest 8x6" toned kallitype print, fresh from the tray (well, from the drying line)... 🤩
(Kallitype is quite challenging in terms of balancing achieving deep blacks vs detail, so this scene took quite some tweaking to retain the details in the band of dark shadowy forest, but I'm happy how it turned out...)
#AltProcess
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafe @toxi@mastodon.thi.ngThe Land of Via Claudia Augusta
(Pre-sunset light on New Year's eve, overlooking a small part of the northern Alps, a view which I imagine was already enjoyed by the Romans who had built a settlement on this hill in 13AD...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeGood Morning Fedi!!
💿 山形県（YAMAGATA-KEN）/ PIKOTARO(ピコ太郎)
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q5nJrpjmtM
🎵 https://song.link/y/6Q5nJrpjmtM
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng#Genuary10 #Genuary2026: Polar coordinates
Circular Fold (2022), an animated circle inversion loop. Made with #ThingUmbrella.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngMy art, but not my video[1] for #Genuary9 #Genuary2026: Crazy Automata
C-SCAPE (2022), a piece of multiple co-evolving cellular automata, running on vertical aspect ratio LCD screen.
Also see:
@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.comLet’s all love hosting provider outages!
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngMy art, but not my video[1] for #Genuary9 #Genuary2026: Crazy Automata
C-SCAPE (2022), a piece of multiple co-evolving cellular automata, running as a massive projection as part of the ALGORYTHMS group exhibition at Collective, Oslo (August 2023).
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngThe Venn Diagram of Perceived Loneliness...
Just came across this again in my archives — it so brutally & succinctly expresses the feeling our cultures & social connections seem to have turned into... Even though we should know that it isn't like that at all, two decades of exploitative commercialized social media (not the only reason; pandemic, tech, politics being others...) have conditioned & segmented people to believe it, experience it to varying degrees, and then …
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngLong winter nights, red light on, UV burner on... So have missed making my own prints, and so glad to be able to pick this up again (and also working with older techniques, which are new to me), all after more than three decades... Still some more kinks to work out before I can share some proper prints, e.g. experimenting with different exposure times, toners (gold/selenium), fixers, concentrations... All very much like a science experiment and meticulous log keeping has been key (as have be…
@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.comNot good
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng @Kingu@sakurajima.moeHey Fedi!
Don't forget to follow @… and vote for the best punk rock album ever!!!
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafeWas man eben so macht am ersten Januar. Ich habe Kaffeebohnen mit Silikon abgeformt. Wenn ich Kaffeeseife mache, dekoriere ich die gerne mit Kaffeebohnen aus Seife. Letztes Mal habe ich sie aus Knetseife von Hand geformt. Das fand ich aber recht mühselig. Heute Abend kann ich mal schauen, ob das mit der Gussform etwas geworden ist.
#SoapMaking
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngAn interesting 4-part series of articles about ore formation processes (published on Hackaday, of all places):
Introduction And Magmatic Processes
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/13/ore-formation-introduction-and-magmatic-processes/
Hydro…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngRE: #QuoteOfTheDay: "Not to be dramatic but we are living in societies with soul-shatteri…
@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.comThe Truth Come Out: Does Bruno Mars is Gay?
RE: https://fedi.computernewb.com/@collabvm/115028819155147026
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngBeen in-depth studying the PDF file format spec for the past few days... it's mind boggling that this format with its capacity for monstrous complexity managed to become the de-facto standard for modern documents. So many questionable decisions & undue flexibility in there (in the wrong places) making even a simple task of reliable metadata extraction (for example) incredibly hard... I understand and value flexibility, but not at this cost! Guess I will have to keep on using one of t…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngThat time when Johnny Klimek (composer for Cloud Atlas and many others of Tom Tykwer films) and Dr. Motte (founder of the Berlin Loveparade) got together in 1996 to create their one-off project Holy Language...
Fireplace (original version, 9 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgL3DNn7OGE
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngCrossing over, near Rossgundscharte.
(Picture from June 2025. Ahead lies the upper end of Rappenalptal, Germany's southernmost valley, and the Lechtal Alps in Tyrol further in the distance)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography
@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.comyou guys can keep the chipi chapa I'm feeling nice today
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafe🚨 Euer Demoterminkalender für die Region #Karlsruhe, frisch zusammengestellt, vitaminreich und bunt:
- 19. Februar, 18:00 Uhr, Karlsruhe Marktplatz: Gedenkveranstaltung für die Opfer des Attentats von #Hanau
- 22. Februar, 14:00 Uhr, Kasino
@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.comyeah I deleted the Yuri fuck you
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngRandom #ThingUmbrella tip & tidbit about unit conversions: I've been sourcing materials for a larger contact printing setup for my kallitype process, incl. getting a much heavier ultra-clear glass plate than what I've been using so far.
Using the https://
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafeGuten Morgen allerseits. Habt den Tag schön und einen guten Start in die neue Woche! 🦜
@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.comwe back party people, sorry for the wait
@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.comhi everyone! sorry for the recent error posts; we had maintenance a few hours ago and for some reason vnc resolver didn't come back up, we should hopefully be back soon! sorry!
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng#ReleaseSaturday — This week I've been working on extracting, refactoring & generalizing the minimal column store database I've been using for my personal knowledge/media management toolset, and I'm happy to share it with the world now:
https://
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngMy #AltProcess #Kallitype development/printmaking journey is already showing strong parallels to my software dev experience, i.e. a preference for avoiding monolithic frameworks and building more granular, reliable, understandable & controllable tooling myself, and get much better & mor…
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafeSalzseifen, Sandstein-Edition
#Soapmaking
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngOne early morning in November, on my way to bird watching...
(There're actually hundreds of birds on that lake, just out of view, but I wanted to capture that quiet mood and surreal light first...)
#MorningWalk #Autumn
@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.comwhat the shit
@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.comPickle?! I don't want no damn pickle! No! No! Pickle no good!
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngWelcome to #TextModeTuesday! For the next few weeks I'll be posting some projects & experiments related to this just spontaneously made up hashtag. If you've got something related to interesting text-based art/experiments, patterns, ASCII-art, ANSI-art etc. please share — the more, the merrier...
To start with, here's an experiment from a few years ago to demonstrat…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngOnly one way to go here, always forward... just as in life!
(This is the equally stunning & adventurous ridge between Feigenkopf and Große Klammspitze, the summit ahead, almost touching the clouds — if you zoom in, you can just about make out the summit cross... One of my fave hikes ever. Picture is from early May 2022)
#SilentSunday
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngShort progress update of refining my Kallitype recipe & workflow:
- Left: a couple of months ago, initial homemade formula, very rusty brown, blotchy and low contrast
- Middle: mid December, double coating, no more staining, better contrast, but not fully cleared emulsion
- Right: last night, pre-wetting plus ammonium dichromate (1 drop) for much better contrast, perfect clearing (without any masking)
Progress! 🤩
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngSo glad about this particular road taken, on that particular day...
(Apologies for the intense lens flares, it was a very bright October day and almost too much for my phone... That hike was such a touching experience, I had to repeat it literally a week later...)
#FootpathFriday #NaturePhotography
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngPenumbra
(Being at the right place at the right time, the geography lining up perfectly to funnel the last light through a steep valley and making the sky glow from this perspective... The silhouettes of the ruins of Castle Eisenberg in the penumbra on the hilltop in the forgeground, also see next pic)
1/2
#MountainMonday
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngFor some years now the UI design and interaction methods shown in sci-fi movies have become ever more abstract & complex, driven by minimalist aesthetics utilizing high-res graphics, a design philosophy based on total omniscient access, heavy information density and interactive realtime visualizations (and/or visual ways of browsing) to aid exploration & expose patterns/relationships, the use of layered/spatial layouts, capable of customization/personalization, programmability (of so…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng@… has a very good short summary video about the wider impact of RAM price hikes (likely to last at least 2 years)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWNSPL6BRuY
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngFuture Portrait Of A Billionaire's House...
Ozymandias, only an inscription and the views remain...
(From our snowy and icy morning walk yesterday... Hohenfreyberg, built & expanded between 1418-1608, burnt down (sacrificed) in 1646. Same fate for the other ruin on the neighboring hill (last image), which belonged to the father and also got destroyed previously (in 1525) by farmers of the surrounding villages...)
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngFrozen silence.
(Amazing atmosphere in this cold blue-purple light & halo near sunset and a crispy -11℃ [12℉] temperature... The only sounds were from the biting wind and the crunch of our steps on frozen ground)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngNo Fishing on this morning walk...
(From a beautiful and positively frozen Sunday AM in late 2022... I shared those images already back then, but hey...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngNot quite groundhogs (for groundhog day), but cute hogs nonetheless...
#MonochromeMonday #NaturePhotography #BlackAndWhite
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngClose-up view of the audio-responsive LED floor installation I co-created for the KEF Muon launch in 2007 @ Sala del Cenacolo (Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milano). The animation was repurposed from one of my first projects I created with Processing (in 2003)...
The 2 meter tall speakers were designed by Ross Lovegrove and made from milled solid aluminium...
The installation was created by Moving Brands (my old employer), a short video of the project/instal…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngWow, tonight's #Aurora was also pretty visible in the Alps...
(All picture credits: https://www.foto-webcam.eu/)
Eibsee (Zugspitze):
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngRE: #Genuary2026
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngRE: #Genuary2026
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115859753627064390
We're there too, can recommend switching...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngSo very much needed this week:
Love Over Entropy — Fortysix (2025)
#Music4Coping
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngEvening walk. Each (end of) day this past week had such amazing light/mood... it's good to get out!
#EveningWalk #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngNeither #Affinity nor #Darktable seemingly support 1D LUTs, which would have been too easy and useful for my #DigitalNegative preparation tool... Instead they both insist on using only 3D LUT…
![Syntax color highlighted TypeScript source code:
```
import {
cycle,
map,
normRange,
permutations,
str,
take,
transduce,
} from "@thi.ng/transducers";
// LUT size (number of samples per axis)
const N = 9;
// example curve of N samples in [0,1] range
// (the curve here is y = x^1.2, i.e. a basic darken effect)
const curve = [...map((x) => (x ** 1.2).toFixed(4), normRange(N - 1))];
// compute cartesian product to produce RGB tuples
const lut = permutations(curve, curve, curve);
// alt…](https://mastothing.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/645/234/959/322/403/original/b9dc6bcea2fe1257.png)
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngFor #TextureTuesday some more WIP snapshots of STRATA, a generative system I've been on/off working on since 2014 (in Clojure/TypeScript/Zig, originally for the cover design of HOLO magazine), loosely based on 1950s research/experiments by Barricelli, somewhat related to cellular automata and extended to use a different and much larger set of "reproduction/collision rules" f…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngMonochromeEvolutionaryBioDigitalCellularAutomataSimulation
Unlike the recently shared[1] multi-cellular struggles, these here are some selected research stills (handpicked from tens of thousands) of only single CA configurations (aka mono-cultures) which I found interesting/promising and which were then used as raw ingredients/candidates for my infinitely evolving C-SCAPE project[2]...
Each of these cellular automata is 1.5D, meaning each pixel row is one generation, but I allowe…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngToblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin
(October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngThe last light of 2025....
(...is giving me big hopes for 2026, against all odds!)
#LandscapePhotography #Sunset #Alps
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngSonnenberg ridge entirely living up to its name...
(Made the most of the last warm weather yesterday afternoon to hike/climb along this beautiful long ridge with many cliffs, roped sections, some cute chamois and hardly any people — temporarily felt like late August, yet in two days supposedly snow starting...)
#SilentSunday
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngLeaving civilization...
(October 2025)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngTriggered by yesterday's discussion about old fluid sims, a short thread with some more examples from that period 2007-2009 to explore fluid dynamics for marbling...
1/3
(cc/ @…)
#FluidSim
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngResearching DIY solutions for preparing digital negatives for my salt/kallitype printing experiments. Working on a little curve fitting tool/library (of course using https://thi.ng/umbrella) for computing tone mapping curves derived from sample swatches (here 5% steps of gray/density). The screenshot shows 2nd - 5th d…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngA 260 meter, 65 floor sky scraper in Zermatt... "a symbolically disruptive gesture that radicalizes the densification trend found in mountain resorts"
Very much hoping this proposal will be shut down before it gets traction! 🤬
https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/gall…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngA silent scenery in four acts...
(Selenium-toned[1] 4x6 salt print (still in final wash) plus previous work-in-progress stages... see alt text for details)
The picture/motif itself is one of my personal favorites and was taken 4 years ago in the Alpstein massif, when clouds were spontaneously forming around us, creating a wonderful light/scene/drama and a dear memory... now also as print which likely will/can outlast myself
[1] The tones will become more neutral once dry...…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngSimulated Cyanotype Chemigrams...
Lately I've been revisiting my old fluid sim toolset which started out as part of my toxiclibs Java libraries (2007/8, based on Jos Stam's research, also previously mentioned in this thread[1]), then ported & expanded it for #Houdini in 2016, then ported again to TypeScript/GLSL (via
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngSo close, yet still so far...
(Standing roughly where the Hintereisferner glacier reached to in 1850. From here it's another 20 mins to the Hochjoch Hospiz at 2413m... where I was the only soul there that day, enjoying true edge of the world vibes. Wonderful!)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngBelated #WaterfallWednesday... My favorite falls to visit on a cold winter's day
#NaturePhotography #BlackAndWhite
![Screenshot of an email reading:
"Dear colleagues,
Are you ready to move beyond basic ChatGPT and harness the true power of Artificial Intelligence for your research and coding?
I'm excited to invite you to register for our workshop at [redacted]: “Artificial Intelligence for the Scientist in a Hurry.”
In this rapidly evolving AI landscape, this workshop is your fast track to practical AI literacy. We’ll cut through the hype and show you real, actionable examples for researchers …](https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/058/101/791/101/608/original/d2db39757b06e832.jpeg)
