Golan Levin

@molleindustria.org LMAO this is gold

Thanks for sharing this -- they post a table of values for male/female vocal tract parameters asmp-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Thrilled to hear from you, Neil—didn't realize you were on this site. Pink Trombone is a piece of pure genius. I'll be giving my simplified version to students for creative-coding design experiments (puppeteering, face-tracking UI, etc.) and will be sure to share the results with you!

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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...

I recommend singing a little song while drawing the fish

YouTube video by arQivisT We're Not Candy (complete version)

Just parking my favorite childhood PSA here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=edvO...

Crazy new killer app idea for creativity: it’s okay for beginners to make bad art, just let them

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.

Nice work - a helpful tool. Of possible interest:
• msurguy.github.io/cnc-text-tool/
• github.com/golanlevin/p...

I watched the video, I didn't see the Studio.

The amazing Lumi Barron (linktr.ee/thou_art_lumi) is teaching an online class this August in felted stop-motion character animation — ideal for your creative teen: lumibarron.com/felted-stop-...

It's a good point. In Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Thai (and some dialects of Greek, Turkish, Persian, and Arabic), "B" and "V" are pronounced identically.

Feeling nostalgic for vacuum fluorescent displays of my youth, I've added p5.js implementations of 7, 14, and 16-segment procedural typefaces to my archive of p5-single-line-font-resources: github.com/golanlevin/p...

Thank you; this is classy 🙂

marvelously obscure pixel-play, thank you for the tasty

checks out ;)
congrats on your book!!!

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Thank you. I think porting/preserving someone's code is one of the highest forms of praise. JT's "Textension" piece was a bit of brilliance that needs to be rescued in full.

JT Nimoy's monoline font from Textension (1999)

Some of Douglas Hofstadter's "Letter Spirit" fonts (1987-1996)

For some super arcane deep cuts, I've ported JT Nimoy's "Textension" vector font (1999) and Douglas Hofstadter's "Letter Spirit" gridfonts (c.1987-1996) to p5.js, now available in my archive of p5-single-line-font-resources: github.com/golanlevin/p...

genuinely everyone should read this 💕

Alternative Frontiers Alternative Frontiers

The excellent Stochastic Labs is offering summer residencies in the Bay Area for artists investigating AI creative tools, new futures of sound and graphics, and tangible and material interfaces. Apply now! stochasticlabs.org/alternative-...

Terrific new work in designing fair dice with arbitrary shapes, by Hossein Baktash at CMU:
• www.newscientist.com/article/2482...
• hbaktash.github.io/files/rollin...

Lactaid on the counter of an ice cream parlor

One of the ice cream shops in my neighborhood sells Lactaid at the counter for 50¢. I asked them how many people buy them and they said roughly 1 per hour. Alas, I've tried numerous times but can't seem to convince the other place, whose ice cream I prefer, to do the same.

CHAR! I have /always wanted/ an impossible hyperbolic paraboloid! Thank you for the birthday wishes! 🫶

NEA Grantees with Terminated Grants or Withdrawn Funding: You have 7 calendar days to appeal, so for those receiving their letters late yesterday (May 2), you have until Friday, May 9 to appeal.

We have put together a how-to guide drawing from available resources including @jasonrhody.bsky.social

We're Hiring a Processing Project Lead! Join the Processing Foundation to make a lasting impact on creative coding software.

#JobAlert! The Processing Foundation seeks a lead software developer to guide the maintenance and growth of the Processing (Java) software: processingfoundation.org/employment/p... (Full-time, fully-remote, $95K)

Perhaps LARPA? Speak with @ntschk.bsky.social and/or @lav.io, who direct larpa.solutions

#JobAlert! Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) invites applications for a full-time, Assistant or Associate Teaching Track position in "AI for Games and Experimental Media": apply.interfolio.com/164953

love this rubric

Thanks Jacob!
This summer I'll be creating a new branch of p5.plotSvg for Version 2.0 of p5.js. Apparently the beginShape()/endShape() API is undergoing significant change for the next version.

It is now clear to everyone that the federal government wields immense power over both public and private universities.

Past administrations could have used the same leverage to lower tuition and curtail student debt.

By doing nothing, they only fueled the populist backlash against academia.