dominic sutter

when I get sad and frustrated with future predictions of #ai bros online, I go back and watch this doc again

why use google at all?

Flyer of a research workshop on ‚Notations‘ featuring drawings from architect Bernhard Tschumi

Next week @ignaciopaulin.bsky.social and I will present our team‘s recent work on behaviour notations in this supercool workshop from the ‚Immersive Models‘ research group at ETH Zurich!

@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
@ethz.ch
#animals #architecture #science

‚the owls are not what they seem‘

🧪Before the day begins, meerkats share a unique ritual. After emerging from their burrows, they spend up to an hour "sunning" to warm up for the day. During this quiet time, they produce soft, tonal "sunning calls". Just standing, sunbathing, and calling. But why❓ #bioacoustics #meerkats #kalahari

Motion Extraction + some nice shading
Wild Australian #fish seen from below, shaded in #touchdesigner

Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour

Movement data from two real fish from Sambia + 3D model in Blender/Unity + Motion Extraction post effect

From my ongoing research at the Behavioural Evolution lab at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour: thejordanlab.com

#animals #fish #gamedesign #unity #gamedev

insane

Testing isovist geometry visualisations in Unity
#game #gamedev #unity #architecture

All of this. And I find I particularly recognise the 'vanquish insecurity'.
Ursula K. LeGuin pinpointed the 'unmeasured desire' for unassailable safety as one of the chief drivers of evil in the world.
And Christ, yes, I'm seeing it so much. In my personal life and in politics too.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

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I love the way art creates more art by existing. It's like a microdosed religious experience. You get moved to creation.
If I see an amazing painting, I have to paint. If I read a great comic, I have to make comics. Good art awakens something inside of you that you have to let out.

out on #bandcamp!
soundcloud: on.soundcloud.com/q2NEhmyhUUzu...

wohooo, thanks!

Stockholm Kartell's discord server has a channel called, roughly translated, Desirable Lifestyles. Here are some posts, and some lifestyles to aspire to.

dul-x, by LooT track by LooT

My new track dul-x will come out on the 29th on Bandcamp and Soundcloud! :)
loooot.bandcamp.com/track/dul-x

Nice opportunity to dive deeper into the topic of the exhibition. What an honor to be showing our work on Sophie Teuber-Arp next to such crazy fellow artists!

vimeo.com/1121872493

Reverse engineering the control law for schooling in zebrafish using virtual reality Reverse engineering the control law used by schooling fish provides an effective and robust algorithm for robotic pursuit.

Liang Li and team have developed a VR system for fish to decipher how they school. The team uncovered the natural ‘control law’ used by zebrafish to coordinate behavior with others.

@icouzin.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social

Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

dul-x, by LooT track by LooT

"The limbed and headed machine of pain and undignified suffering is firing up again. It wants to walk the desert. Hurting. Longing. Dancing to disco music." - Ancient Reptilian Brain, Disco Elysium

New track out on 29.11!
loooot.bandcamp.com/track/dul-x
#music #electronic #originalmusictracks

‘Games: Agency as Art’ —  A Behavioral Scientist’s Book Review Through games we can learn to love the aesthetic experience of a certain form of agency — the agency of the person we want to become.

A beautiful and fresh take on games as process art. from a behaviouralist perspective. in the form of a book review. guess I should read the full book now…

medium.com/@jtpeterson2...

Started this month at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social in the lab for behavioural #evolution, studying #fish behaviour using gameengines! Happy to meet all the interesting folks :)

New study from #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social and @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social shows: animal swarms don’t need to follow fixed rules; their coordination emerges from brain dynamics. Flexible “ring attractor” networks create complexity from simplicity: https://t1p.de/4c6cd @icouzin.bsky.social

By changing only a single byte in the code of Mario Paint, the music composer will not stop at the end of the song and instead continue to play the entire contents of the console's memory as music.

Lints, by LOOT track by LOOT

Finally had the guts and motivation to upload one of my older tracks to #bandcamp! Played it one or two times as part of a live set this summer. The atmosphere reminds me a lot of the Bunker area @ars.electronica.art :))

#originalmusictracks #music #electronic

loooot.bandcamp.com/track/lints

INSULINDIAN PHASMID - I am at the end of a narrow funnel. Weightless. So light it only feels like *something* to be me. In truth -- perhaps I'm nothing? I certainly do not have a soul. And if I did, it would never ache.

Forest background with font saying: Garden City

«(...) the „collaborative moments" take place when a pair of friends are so open and trusting with one another that they can share their wildest, most tentatively held ideas. In these moments, new ideas seem to emerge from the dialogue without „belonging" to either of the pair, and afterward they may not be able to say who had the ideas first.» - Farrell, M. P. (2001)

Several versions of the playful learning interfaces that Francisco Moura Veiga and I develop at @ethz.ch are currently being used and tested by students in Design Studio Courses at Iscte Lisboa, EPFL and ZHdK, which is just supercool!

#academicsky #design #learning #behaviouralscience

superfun game by supercute friends!

Limmat summer in #zurich