Happy Island Updates

A personal blog that chronicles various aspects of what Studio Artist creator John Dalton is up to. The Studio Artist User Forum is at studioartist.ning.com The main Synthetik Software site is www.synthetik.com More WMF at www.myspace.com/wmfrocks and wmfrocks.bandcamp.com

Nov 6
“His prototype, and the software that powers it, works with smartphones and turns walls, sheets of paper and other surfaces into screens for, say, browsing the Web. The camera translates gestures into commands -– for example, you can hold up both your hands to frame a scene and flick your thumb to take a picture.” Adding a Sixth Sense to Your Cellphone - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Posted at 9:46am

Childlike Scribble


Machine intelligence reaches the level of childlike scribbling. More gallery show output from Studio Artist 4.

Posted at 4:17am

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Posted at 12:41am

Nov 5

Gallery Show Sketch


Still working on extending the sketch functionality in Studio Artist 4 gallery show. Added some new path gen functionality from ip ops as well.

Posted at 5:39am

Nov 4
“Activity in the brain comes and goes in waves, cycling between high and low activity states. Researchers have been recording brain waves for more than 100 years and although they think they play roles in working memory, decision-making and communication among brain regions, no one is sure of their exact role in brain function. This work suggests a new role for brain waves - one in which they are directly involved in the brain’s processing. Picower Institute postdoctoral associate and co-author Timothy J. Buschman found that the spotlight of the mind’s eye shifted focus at 25 times a second and that this process of switching was regulated by brain waves. “This is one of the first examples of how brain waves play a specific role in cognitive computations,” Buschman said” MIT researchers: The mind’s eye scans like a spotlight
Posted at 1:31pm

Gallery Show


Gallery Show is a new feature available in Studio Artist 4. You can use it in many different ways. The basic idea behind gallery show was to provide a way to put together customized…

Posted at 11:55am

Algorithmic Drawing 4


More algorithmic drawing experiments in Studio Artist 4. I’m using vector drawing paint synthesizer output here.

Posted at 4:32am

Nov 3

Vectorizer Gallery Show 2


Another random vectorizer gallery show image from Studio Artist 4.

Posted at 5:05am

Nov 2
“A recurring theme in biomimetic technology is that, pretty much whatever device we design, something in nature outperforms it in some way. This view has been reinforced with a recent Nature Photonics paper that takes a look at the optical performance of a Stomatopod crustacean’s eye.” A crustacean eye that rivals the best optical equipment - Ars Technica
Posted at 8:39am

Vectorizer Gallery Show


One of the new gallery show features in Studio Artist 4 lets you automatically generate random vectorizer presets as a part of the show run. There’s a lot of cool vectorizer abstraction…

Posted at 4:54am