Michael Zoellner

Explore Like a Designer Search Isotype charts by type, features, and color.

I’ve been cooking—building an original archive explorer from my collection of Isotype Institute charts and maps. So far, it includes 129 figures from 10 different publications. www.chartography.net/p/explore-li...

Coming soon… The Seinfeld Chronicles: Digital Edition

The workbench of Glitchlet, showing a file panel, a code panel, and a preview panel.

Last year's shutdown of @glitch.com was a huge blow to my pedagogy. Glitch was ideal for creative coding classes and workshops. I looked around for alternatives. But there was nothing that was open, decentralized, and not at the mercy of VCs or Big Tech.

So I built my own. Here's Glitchlet.

GitHub - golanlevin/p5.plotSvg: A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting. A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting. - GitHub - golanlevin/p5.plotSvg: A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting.

A new version (v0.1.8) of p5.plotSvg, my #p5.js library for plotter-oriented SVG output, is now out. It includes support for Inkscape layers, and several bug fixes. github.com/golanlevin/p...
#plotSvg #creativeCoding #plotterArt

YouTube video by Everything Important Macintosh Apple event 1984 | Showing off MacPaint and MacWrite

How fun is this? Watch an audience cheer and laugh in amazement over pixel zooming and an eraser tool. People had never seen anything like it. You can even hear Jobs saying "incredible" as Bill Atkinson demos panning around an image while zoomed in.

Screenshot of SubShifter website.

German public TV does not provide English subtitles. "Found" subtitle files are often not in sync.
But it's possible to linear correct srt files by using subshifter.bitsnbites.eu and syncing the first subtitle's timestamps and the last in the file.
It's a bit of work, but it works!
#DIDit

Cutting Edge: The Power of the Gaze The EyeWriter demonstrates how media art opens up new creative avenues through collaboration and openness, revealing technological innovation as a collaborative, accessible process. Since 1979, Ars El...

Lovely to see this recent write up from Ars Electronica on our Eyewriter project. Really thoughtfully written Reflects the spirit of the project ( 15 years ago now!! ) cc @zachlieberman.bsky.social @csugrue.bsky.social @powderly.bsky.social @evanroth.bsky.social

ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/20...

I once wrote a script to monitor Shepard Fairey's webshop to see when the limited Burroughs prints would go on sale. Of course, it didn't work, but luckily I checked the shop myself shortly before closing time. Print 420 / 450.

First time watching TNT’s cricket coverage and there’s some really good stuff visually showing the biomechanics of batters and bowlers actions

KI-Use-Case-Katalog Eine Übersicht zu KI-Use-Cases in Studium, Lehre und Support

Mein RunwayML Workshop "KI im Designprozess" von 2022 wurde in den KI-Use-Case-Katalog des Hochschulforum Digitalisierung (HFD) aufgenommen:
ki-use.hochschulforumdigitalisierung.de

Graphic of 3D human pose estimation data of a river surfer.

Graphic of 3D human pose estimation data of a river surfer.

Graphic of 3D human pose estimation data of a river surfer.

Visualization of 3D Human Pose Estimation data of river surfers.

Hardware: 3 synchronized & calibrated GoPro 11
Software: Freemocap & p5js

@processing.org
#humanposeestimation #p5js #dataviz

Creating BUSY A full accounting for the process of creating the BUSY art project over the course of a year. BUSY began as a challenge to create highly detailed artwork with the power of computation.

*This is quite a good essay about being a generative plotter-artist. This is, like, the inky, haywire, art-hacker plotter-art real-deal there.

lostpixels.io/writings/cre...

The stretchable, procedural single-stroke monospace font created by Kiel Mutschelknaus for his "Space Type Generator" has been added to my archive of p5.js single-line type resources: github.com/golanlevin/p...

www.wienmuseum.at/knowledge_fo...

BancoBender web tool

3D printed word CREATOR

Stitched word CREATOR

My submission to Slanted #47 - Digital Tools.
The mathematical formula for Thrasher's logo is applying
y = sin(x) * log(height) on the 1951 font "Banco".
BancoBender is a quick p5js tool to create remixes, export SVGs.

bancobender.m05.de

#banco #typography #thrasher #skateboarding @processing.org

Lego drawbot drawing circles.

Lego drawbot drawing circles.

Lego drawbot with four pens.

The drawing machines by my students are inspiring like every year. They let them understand loops and simple algorithms in their first semester. The LEGO Education SPIKE Prime sets and Blockly is quickly understood and ready to use.

#plotterart #drawingmachines #penplotter

Dimensions | Database of Dimensioned Drawings A comprehensive reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world.

"Dimensions.com is an ongoing reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world."
www.dimensions.com

This is how the war in Ukraine has changed.
For this story, we used Gaussian splatting for the first time, which creates a unique aesthetic. What do you think?

www.spiegel.de/ausland/ukra...

17 Xsens Awinda sensors

I found an affordable Xsens Awinda kit on eBay. 17 Micro-USB cables. Powering off takes 7 seconds per sensor. ;-)

you know what? screw it. theremin mode. https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor/releases/tag/1.0.3

New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text:

🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...

Eroding protections for public lands Trump policies reshape the role of federally owned land, against the tide of U.S. public opinion

Congress has passed hundreds of laws protecting federal public lands over the past century through bipartisan efforts and with the support of local governments. Now, Trump’s administration is pushing policies and legislation that upend these protections.

www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

We present a simplified, p5.js version of the vocal tract synthesizer from Neil Thapen's popular Pink Trombone, adapted for use in a creative coding assignment concerned with interaction design and absurd puppeteering.
Interactive: editor.p5js.org/golan/sketch...
Writeup: github.com/golanlevin/6...

Screen print of Otl Aicher on paper.

Yesterday's screen print with the RISO master hack.
#screenprint #riso

Filename: Abu
Abu, do another thing now: Belbo orders Abu to change all words, make each “a” become “akka” and each “o” become “ulla,” for a paragraph to look almost Finnish.
(The translations of this section differ a lot)

Sharing a new niche tool I made - Font Ozempic laserpilot.github.io/font-ozempic/ it is specifically for taking SVGs with text objects and replacing the text with a single line font (or hershey text) and letting you re-position and save the file. Meant for pen plotters #penplotter #plotterart

Comic. [Person with ponytail using handheld device in front of a large sign with crooked, off-center header, with crooked QR code (with illegible URL) and crooked list beneath] Header: DOANATE TO FIX THIS SIGN! List: $10 Fix kerning [kerning around “rni” of kerning is difficult to read]; $20 Align Columns [out of alignment] $20 Fix text size [much smaller text size]; $50 Fix typo; $50 Fix centering; $100 fix rotation. PERSON: Grrr… [caption] My new company’s business model is based on extorting graphic designers.

Fix This Sign

xkcd.com/3113/

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Raised bed with tomatoes and other plants.

We have built a raised bed in our campus garden and are now starting gardening.