Jonathan HoggPlaying with snowflake-ish things for xmas
Further experiments: more, smaller snowflakes and many more, more colourful spotlights
Woo! The @alpaca talks are all up for your viewing pleasure:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxqmZjMvoVzw773-Fo9ajkujFfOThuFOP
Looking forward to catching up on the second weekend, which I missed.
I have forced myself to watch my own Flitter talk back and it is not as bad as it felt when I was doing it!
Alpaca conference on Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts 2025
nnenovYour presentation on #FlitterLang yesterday was excellent @jonathanhogg , got me super curious to try it out, it was also really nice to hang out after and find out all about your journey to creating such an interesting creative tool, can't wait to see where you take it and thanks for sharing!
It’s almost time! I am in Sheffield for the Alpaca conference and festival. I’ll be talking about Flitter this afternoon. You’ll be pleased to hear that I have now finished my slides, but have not yet got my talk down to 15 minutes…
Oh, hey! In other news: I keep forgetting to say that I'm talking about my visuals language Flitter at the @alpaca conference in three weeks
https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/conference/
I haven't thought about what I"m going to say yet, so if you're going and have ideas about what you'd like to hear, let me know 😉
Susanna the Artist 🌻@jonathanhogg Investigating your #FlitterLang posts to see what’s possible with it. Is this something you output to a CRT, or are you simulating a CRT?
If you want to see some example code, there is a bunch of little scripts here:
https://github.com/jonathanhogg/flitter-examples
At some point I will put sample outputs in there too so you can see what they do without running them, but it won’t be for a few weeks…
If you’re wondering what the paradigm is, it’s roughly JSX but with a functional language: evaluate an expression 60 times a second to generate a node tree that describes what the screen looks like
Seeking generative/procedural artist beta users! (PLEASE BOOST!)
It’s now 2 years since I open-sourced my pet language, Flitter. I’ve used it for multiple live gigs, interactive installations and video artworks
However, I have no idea if it has value beyond my use. I need people to try it, tell me what they hate and what sucks most in the docs
You need to be comfortable at the CLI, example visuals on the #FlitterLang tag
Submitted my tax return! So here's a quick Genuary sketch to celebrate. This is today (isometric) plus a catch-up on day 4 (black-on-black) and day 2 (layers).
It's thousands of partially transparent, shiny black cubes drawn (or not) according to a 4D noise function, in an isometric projection and surrounded by 10 rotating point lights in different colours that produce the specular reflections.
Code:
https://github.com/jonathanhogg/flitter-examples/blob/main/genuary2025/day06_isometric.fl
#FlitterLang #CreativeCoding #Genuary #Genuary2 #Genuary4 #Genuary5
