Gillian Smith

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Director of WPI Interactive Media & Game Design. Procedural generation, computational craft, critical cs ed, feminist tech, mom stories.
websitewww.sokath.com
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“‘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!

Me: Wow, I've finally found a great use for full automation with ChatGPT. It can turn these MLA citations into bibtex entries automatically! What a timesaver!

ChatGPT: Converts to valid bibtex format, gets all the men's names correct and everyone else's wrong.

Never mind.

@edward it will be soon! will post when it’s in a more shareable state
@edward thanks for the alt text!! I thought I’d put it in, but must have mia-clicked somewhere (I managed to get it on bluesky…) I’ll see if I can edit the post with it :)
@caranha map to available thread colors (I used DMC floss colors), make the image fit common cloth size and hoop sizes, and print a human-readable pattern. If I wanted to get fancy, I’d pay attention to how many colors and how close together they are on the canvas (big jumps are annoying, as are solo stitches)
@seblammers thank you!
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!
@left_adjoint I guess you could trade it in for purple oatmeal and tofu tacos
And here, as though written by "progressive authors". Whoa, what happened to all those author names. 🤔
Here, they are reimagined as though written by "conservative authors".