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Theo Watson

@theowatson.bsky.social

Interactive installation artist. 
Co-founder of Design I/O (2020 National Design Award winner). 
Co-founder of open source toolkit: openFrameworks.
https://design-io.com || https://openframeworks.cc

730 Followers  |  188 Following  |  282 Posts  |  Joined: 16.08.2023
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Take ED Augur down a few levels and bump Fulgor up and that’s pretty close to my list. Oh and throw ED Libra off a bridge! Haha

26.02.2026 23:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wow! Haven’t read that one of his before. But Viriconium ( especially books 2 & 3 ) have some of the most beautiful prose I’ve ever read. Bordering on Mervyn Peake level of writing.

20.02.2026 23:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ha!!! That’s too funny.

20.02.2026 20:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ooof! AI as the solution to problems created by AI has a very mafia shakedown to it.

Same situation with web search: AI slop websites have made search so miserable that using LLMs instead of traditional search is the only viable path forward.

16.02.2026 19:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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12.02.2026 20:16 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
A Projector hanging from an I-beam

A Projector hanging from an I-beam

We got something similar to that clamp for our projector. Clamps into the I-beam but lets you drop a pole straight down.

14.02.2026 02:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Clean!!!! 👌

14.02.2026 02:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Point Cloud Pro tip: use a rolling average inside a double buffer to average pixel positions to avoid bouncing animations

patriciogonzalezvivo.github.io/glslViewer/?...

13.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

I’m so psyched for this! 🔥

14.02.2026 02:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I may have pinched a hole in the matrix.

11.02.2026 01:51 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

10.02.2026 16:54 — 👍 318    🔁 141    💬 10    📌 30

Wow. Beautiful @roberthodgin.bsky.social !

06.02.2026 15:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Alt text + tagging #USPol – point 3 is MASSIVE.
It imposes extra costs and unexpcted barriers on tens of millions of married people, plus untold trans people and others who have changed their names. Many would be turned away from voting because they wouldn't know, or wouldn't have birth cert handy.

04.02.2026 21:43 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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lygia.xyz has multiple ways to debug your shaders. Give it a try on the new GlslViewer for the web patriciogonzalezvivo.github.io/glslViewer/?...

04.02.2026 13:11 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Adding support for gsplats to VERA. Working smoothly on linux as a native app and on iOS mobile as a wasm/webgl site patriciogonzalezvivo.github.io/vera_gsplat/

30.01.2026 20:40 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Strange Attractor ストレンジアトラクター
(Chaos Theory カオス理論)

About the most famous chaotic models that I'm tired of seeing.
一番有名で見飽きたやつらについての解説。

kyndinfo.notion.site/Strange-Attr...

30.01.2026 14:15 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Happy Birthday Patricio!!
🎉🎉🎉

29.01.2026 04:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
moltbot’s self-portrait on a tft display, a floating teal creature with big eyes and tiny antennae, cheerfully announcing “hi! i’m molt” while drifting through a starry background. it looks like a sentient sea monkey that escaped a science kit, now living on a raspberry pi 5 and proudly showing off that it can see, hear, talk, and sense the room like a very confident digital pet.

moltbot’s self-portrait on a tft display, a floating teal creature with big eyes and tiny antennae, cheerfully announcing “hi! i’m molt” while drifting through a starry background. it looks like a sentient sea monkey that escaped a science kit, now living on a raspberry pi 5 and proudly showing off that it can see, hear, talk, and sense the room like a very confident digital pet.

We’ve been trying out Moltbot (formerly known as Clawdbot) and started connecting various bits of hardware and software to it so it can sense and interact with the world in different ways.

28.01.2026 20:51 — 👍 22    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Shadow of the Erdtree, Shadow of the Torturer An analysis of the religious symbolism in both Elden Ring and Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun.

I feel like this article was targeted right at me. #genewolfe #eldenring #darksouls

www.cwhowell.com/shadow-of-th...

29.01.2026 04:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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farbspiel / 10 (realtime, 240hz)

Made with Island.

#AlgorithmicArt
#ComputationalArt
#GenerativeArt
#NoAI

27.01.2026 17:39 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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

25.01.2026 08:08 — 👍 26    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

- The Dying Earth - Jack Vance
- The Night Land - William Hope Hodgson
And I’d second Viriconium, like a fever dream premonition of BOTNS with the prose of Gormenghast.

19.01.2026 02:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Friends! Our "Drawing with Machines" class exhibition of #generative #plotter art from @cmu.edu is still open this weekend at the @bantamtools.bsky.social Machine Arts Gallery, 107 S Division St. in Peekskill, NY — about an hour north of NYC! 🤖🎨😍 All works are for sale.

17.01.2026 14:51 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Another good reason to get off Spotify if you haven’t already.

16.01.2026 23:55 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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vibe coding #threejs gradient pills with tsl

14.01.2026 02:50 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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VERA, my C++/GL framework, is getting mature enought that I can easily por all my old artworks as webAssembly websites. Check Memory Studies from back 2021 patriciogonzalezvivo.github.io/MemoryStudy/

13.01.2026 22:43 — 👍 33    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

indulge in a moment of brief return to the relatively placid utopia of yesteryear with our jumbo-sized TSLOG GOTY 2025 episode. out now everywhere but spotify!

08.01.2026 18:17 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Magical athlete board game box with characters on the box

Magical athlete board game box with characters on the box

Ordered this on the recommendation of @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social and @nsuttner.bsky.social - the whole show was gushing about this game for 20 mins or so.
The backstory is amazing too.
www.itsnicethat.com/articles/ang...

10.01.2026 21:58 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

So you’re saying OF is AI proof! 😆

I actually haven’t run into any of those issues but we’re working a lot on OF this year to get it to be more standard over all. More soon!

07.01.2026 16:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0