👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt

"turtle" is a whimsical name for a program which follows a set of instructions to produce images; imagine a turtle w/ a market attached; as it crawls, it draws

pictured is Metatron's cube, an object w/ Kabbalistic significance, which I here desecrate for aesthetic purposes

string-replacement systems are one of the simplest language constructions, p much the point at which we transition from automata theory to PL theory

here we see a Koch snowflake, a fractal constuction, self-similar at every scale

these curves are remarkable in their simplicity

while originally botanical in nature, these L-systems can be repurposed for general generative purposes, as the rules are quite flexible

this one here is a simple Hilbert curve, a space-filling curve, ie a function which is intended to traverse every point in a certain space

this was made w/ L-systems, which are one of my favorite tools; originally invented to describe the growing logic of plants, its a recursive string-replacement system for generating turtle instructions, first described in The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants

http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop.pdf

one of my primary hobbies is generative "art", if such a monstrosity can even be termed such. tbh haven't been doin much of it lately but hope to get back into it soon; this shit gives me life
---
RT @pee_zombie
@generativist I've got something even better
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1425675298314539011

when I leave the function and stop masking
---
RT @erin_nerung
egirls as soon they're off camera
https://twitter.com/erin_nerung/status/1425459891695759365

---
RT @taalumot
@_StevenFan @pee_zombie pill me, pz
https://twitter.com/taalumot/status/1425195372209745920

learning about this, unironically, helped my lil autist self figure out why I felt stiff while talking to people and others looked like they felt much more natural. physical posture determines mental posture!
---
RT @eigenrobot
https://twitter.com/empathy2000/status/1424757692187426820
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1424794068123471888

same-sara
---
RT @__femb0t

https://twitter.com/__femb0t/status/1424457262760931332

post an image of yourself as the leader of an underground organization without downloading any new pics
---
RT @chaosprime
post an image of yourself as the leader of an underground organization without downloading any new pics https://twitter.com/SeanMombo/status/1423050848083582984?s=20 https://t.co/4T0zn0fBSh
https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1423150060104294403

QT with a photo of you that someone else took. One that captures your essence.
---
RT @WeftOfSoul
QT with a photo of you that someone else took. One that captures your essence. https://twitter.com/metaLulie/status/1422928564429656068 https://t.co/f2pyZMlpAy
https://twitter.com/WeftOfSoul/status/1422985028330471425

and a few rather odd ones too, of "a man without qualia"

several other strong contenders with different approaches

attempted to generate a depiction of my persona with this fantastic little tool, with mixed results

behold the cybernetic zombie
---
RT @hillelogram
I made a thing so that anybody, even nonprogrammers, can make their AI-generated art. Just put in a text prompt and out comes art!

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1n_xrgKDlGQcCF6O-eL3NOd_x4NSqAUjK
https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1422603763009851398

the seekers gain understanding

the hero learns non-doing

the T-shaped overachiever diversifies his competence portfolio

the plucky underdog demonstrates proof by contradiction

the philosopher solves the riddle by reexamining his motivations

here, an older brother cures the younger of his cowardice by teaching him that he'll never face an external battle tougher than that to overcome his own limits