“‘Cut’ is the wrong way to think about scope. When you take a chainsaw to the things you dream of doing, you hurt feelings.” Monty Sharma of #MassDigi giving a great talk at WPI IMGD about scope!
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Gillian Smith
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Director of WPI Interactive Media & Game Design. Procedural generation, computational craft, critical cs ed, feminist tech, mom stories.
Re-visiting my generative embroidery project, trying to make it more friendly for converting generated designs to stitch-able patterns. Made a little world map cross-stitch pattern generator as a test case, and I kinda like it!
And here, as though written by "progressive authors". Whoa, what happened to all those author names. 🤔
My night time hobby these days is to reflect upon the assumed social norms in ChatGPT in the context of children's fiction. Here's 10 popular kids' board books, as if they had been rewritten 50 years from the original publication date.
Today, during a particularly frustrating meeting on this particularly annoying snow day, my 3yo produced this work of art. She used the “Why?” stamp that one of my students made earlier this year. I think the dinosaurs are a nice touch.
I am considering framing it.
Asking ChatGPT to complete my in-class programming activities is already leading to hilarious (and thought-provoking) results.
Thomas Cole's "The Voyage of Man: Manhood", as presented through the five maritime signal flags that spell "SMILE".
Sombre reasoning here (cw: death, illness -- both long in the past): https://cohost.org/codingcrafter/post/799975-i-never-see-a-reaso
"I never see a reason not to smile" (genuary 6: steal like an artist)
The man who would have been my father-in-law died from pancreatic cancer on Christmas Eve of 2015. I miss him and think of him often, and especially at this time of year. My husband and I met in high school, and I fairly quickly felt part of his family. In many ways, his dad became a father figure for me. I didn't really intend for tonight's genuary prompt to move into sombre territory, but for some reason the first artwork I thought to steal was Thomas Cole's The Voyage of Life. I'm not at all religious, and I don't find religious or moralistic art, or usually even representational art, to be my thing! But these paintings find a soft place in my heart, in large part likely because of both my husband and father-in-law's love for them, and I think I could look at them for days. For this prompt, I took the third painting of the series (Manhood), in which Cole depicts an adult struggling through life, jostled by rapids. I replaced each 6x6 patch of pixels with one of five pixelated maritime signal flags (E, I, L, M, and S). He really loved ships. During his illness, even at some of the hardest times, he bore it with a smile on his face. And when a friend asked him why, his response was "I never see a reason not to smile." So, smiling through adversity, in memory of the man who--among so many other things--was the person who most encouraged me to stick with computer science when I was ready to quit. (And I like what it does to the tree.)
For #genuary5 I made a whole series of mistakes, none of which were interestingly captured with visual debugging. And I learned that, while I do visual debugging all the time, it's so heavily process-oriented and happening in-the-moment that it never, ever looks interesting.
But in my (failed) quest to force a sketch that had an interesting debug view, I made this.... thing.
And then accidentally deleted all the code.
I'm going to bed.