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IBNIZ is a virtual machine designed for extremely compact low-level audiovisual programs. The leading design goal is usefulness as a platform for demoscene productions, glitch art and similar projects. Mainsteam software engineering aspects are considered totally irrelevant.
Via @textfiles, here is an old catalog of woodworking products from 1890. It is amazing how little woodworking tools have changed since then!
The Japanese movie “Fish Story” is really great. You should watch it! It is on netflix instant and KenFlix…
This video does not give away the plot:
Stamen has released three new tilesets of OpenStreetMap data at maps.stamen.org. I like watercolor the best.. Try zooming around below:
Here is a video of cutting a stencil at rAncHtrOnix last week, posted here just because we can now embed reasonably-sized videos on the blog!
I updated TikiRobot’s wordpress theme tonight. We are now using a fork of the awesome P2 Theme. Our old theme was a bit dated, with a main column that was 500px wide, which was too small for the modern web. In addition to a wide main column, we also get a post box on the front page if you are logged in and other cool stuff.
I still need to tweak some things, such as the font colors and styles. Hope you like it! As usual, the code for the theme is available on github.
A cyclist on reddit posted this video of a separated bike lane in New Delhi, which quickly becomes unusable to bikes:
As seen at Archive HQ
Check out these great tronix paintings, now hanging at Progressive Grounds in Bernal Heights:
On Martin Luther King Day, I decided to take Sebastian Schmieg’s Search By Image, Recursively project, and start with a seed image of MLK from Wikipedia.
After about a thousand images we arrive at the Hubble Deep Field. Interesting to compare to Sebastian’s project, where he very quickly arrives at the Deep Field when starting with a transparent image.
I took the code that Sebastian Schmieg made available on his Search by Image page and wrapped it in a loop. The modified code can be found here.
Update:
Here is the full 9 minute video. After crawling about 8500 images, the algorithm stopped after it couldn’t find any new related images. We skip the broken images, which leaves us with about 7000 frames:
And here it is with a soundtrack, as suggested by Aaron.
-raj
Milo is our neighbor’s dog… He has grown up to look just like Zara!
From Science Made Stupid. At the time, before Rule 34, this was a hilarious joke. Now it’s hard not to take seriously…
Here are some red hot rollicking robots in uncensored action. This stuff is everywhere now…
More racing from the weekend! This time at the Singlespeed Cyclocross World Championships in Golden Gate Park. The only rule in this race is that you have to ride a bike with only one gear and aside from that there are no other rules. It was super fun, ridiculous and crazy!
Here’s the awesome quadcopter video of the event
Jason Scott (@textfiles) was at the archive.org office last week and took some great pics of Zara, working hard!
Last night the tronix crew huddled around the livestream and watched the NYPD and DSNY toss the entire contents of the park, including tents, computers, and backpacks, into a huge orange dumpster. After the dumpster overflowed with the occupiers’ stuff, they starting a massive pile next to the dumpster.
It was pretty unbelievable footage, and almost impossible to find online because the cops barred the press and even shutdown the airspace and made the news copters leave the area. I’m surprised they didn’t try to shut down the livestream as well.
But as striking as the footage of the dumpster was, the thing that really seemed to catch everyone’s attention was chucking an entire library into the trash. When you start destroying libraries, there is no ambiguity. You’ve lost the plot, and now everyone knows.
This video was shot by an RC multipcopter at a race I did 2 weekends ago and is pretty awesome!
I noticed it hovering in the air that day and wondered what it was doing there. When I’m at a race, all I see is dust, dirt and gravel, so it’s pretty neat to see what it all looks like from above.
Sometimes, for fun, I like to browse the illustration archives at the Library of Congress, which is a veritable treasure trove. I found the lovely one above while poking through the Tissandier Collection which contains images documenting “the early history of aeronautics with an emphasis on balloon flight.” There’s no information on the artist though which is unfortunate, but apparently he or she thought we’d get to the moon by bike! (which I kind of like :)
shag is discussing. 
rajbot 1:00 pm on April 22, 2012 Permalink |
See also this post by Kragen on “bytebeat“.
rajbot 9:10 pm on April 22, 2012 Permalink |
Fix for the osx build: https://github.com/rajbot/IBNIZ/commit/ac89e43871a25218569c8449130facf71ce5de74