One of the great all-time landmarks of computer music is getting much-deserved preservation and recreation effort, with Laurie Spiegel herself teaming up with Eventide.
Here's some history, some gorgeous recent(!) uses of the software, and why this is insanely awesome.
In games, the UI *is the point*. It’s about interacting for the sake of interacting.
Universalism still going strong, all will be saved.
You can't even click on a cursor! They have played us for absolute fools.
Pom-Bär yessss
Glad you made it to the meetup, and I very much enjoyed our conversation too!
It's that time again: ✨we’re hiring✨
We're looking for a @godotengine.org IDE Engineer to help us build the next generation of collaboration tools inside the engine itself! More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-ide-engineer
(Remote role 🌍🌎🌏)
12 exciting live-programming projects will be presented at LIVE this year. It's free, online, and coming up soon!
Sat 9/27: Videos premiere
Sat 10/4: Q & A and discussion over Zoom
Details on projects are up already at liveprog.org; more schedule & links coming soon.
Hope to see ya there!
microsound.
Yep - some cool uses of it in the MacPaint video on kristenroos.ca/timeline. (it might go back even further)
Our new research track is called Universal Version Control and it's about exploring how to bring the power of version control to every person, on every kind of document and every kind of collaboration.
www.inkandswitch.com/universal-ve...
fair
Here it is — very happy to officially release the book that @marianoguerra.org and I have been working on for the past 2½ years.
If you bought it in early access, thanks for your support! 🙏
If you haven't bought it yet, please check it out!!
Great talk! I tend to do this intuitively, but I could never quite put my finger on why this seems to work so well.
In the primal soup, lifeforms emerge
The Ink team at Ink & Switch is starting something new — publishing our internal lab notes.
These are (mostly) unedited, with all our puzzling and musing and prototypes unfiltered.
Take a peek: inkandswitch.com/ink/notes/
Still the best video on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-...
happy international constipation day
Sketchpad: fun with text
@joshuahhh.com and I invite you to explore our experimental visual programming environment (which takes place in a dungeon)
Features
- dissolve the bounds of decision and explore all possibilities at once
- use sigillic incantations, delve into recursive caverns
vezwork.github.io/drostes-lair-post
We need a theory of what makes a *good* compositional system.
I've always wondered why IBIS didn't take off more. My feeling is that it's probably less a technical problem, and more a cultural one.
82SBI7 - An elderly man and his granddaughter sit quietly on a garden bench, observing the orderly movements of a robotic horticultural assistant. The machine, designed for precision farming, tends to the plants with mechanical efficiency.
X9BUAE - Among sharp cliffs and tarpits, the hands of a lone worker sift through the arid ground.
XT14ER - A cozy night, they seem unfazed by the stream of lights overhead. For them, it is ordinary.
8GPA45 - The night held the village in its palm. Across the sky, a ship moved like a blade through dark blue cloth.
Young professional at work
Cars fly by apartment window.
Checking incoming electronic messages
Harvest time
Some pictures from the archive.
