Tim Rodenbröker
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Course dev update: Lost in Gradation 🤷♂️
🕑 Added 2023-06-16 15:42:39 +0000 UTCHey there, ✌️
I hope you are well! Here the summer has fully arrived and enjoy the last weeks in Paderborn. Already at the beginning/mid of August I will leave for Barcelona and move my center of life to this beautiful city. The preparations are in full swing and I'm in the process of becoming a hardcore minimalist. It feels great to get rid of old stuff.
A lot has happened this week:
New work for the New York Times 🗽
A second time I had the honor to develop a visual for the New York Times. It's an illustration for an essay by investigative journalist Julia Angwin. I've published a case study about the project on my website.
Bauhaus Livestream 🎞
On Thursday I streamed the announced Bauhaus Challenge on Youtube. It was great fun, especially because some of you were live in the chat. Thanks again for that! I will share the recording of the stream here on Patreon soon. I'm currently thinking about repeating such livestreams in a certain rhythm. What do you think about that?
Lost in Gradation 🆘
I've been trying to make progress on the Gradation course for the last few days, however I'm currently having a mathematical problem that I can't get solved. Maybe you can help me? In the video I explain where it hangs. Also i attached the code to this post. You can see the interim state of the course here:
Digital Gardening 🌿
The last weeks I launched a small side-project, inspired by the idea of digital gardening. It was brought to my attention by Alex Muñuz, who has been part of this Patreon community for a long time and with whom I became friends in Barcelona. A Digital Garden is a website where authors publish text fragments, small sketches and ideas. Similar to a blog, but much more unstructured. More like a box of notes. The ideas grow over time, new ones are constantly added, and if all goes well, they become full essays. That's the goal of digital gardening. I found the idea so wonderful that I directly built such a digital garden for myself. The texts are all in German. I will translate some of the articles into English and publish them on timrodenbroeker.de, if the topic suits.
Demystify Technology ✊
The first finished text in my Digital Garden is called "Demystify Technology" and is basically the story of my interpretation of Creative Coding and the focus in my work.
As always: Every comment makes me happy, so please, do not be afraid to leave a little feedback!
Greetings and see you next week! ☀️
Tim
Comments
Tim Rodenbröker
Hi Ricardo! I really can't explain why this is so tricky, I've been tinkering with it forever and can't really get anywhere on my own. But with the help of Patrik Hübner and Stig Møller Hansen I have two new code examples that work. I'll put both links here in the comments. If I'm in Spain then let's meet. I would also like to host a Creative Coding Meetup again. Let's connect! https://timrodenbroeker.de/courses/gradation/mouse/ https://timrodenbroeker.de/courses/gradation/2d/
Ricardo Lodroño
Hi Tim! Regarding the gradation thing that keeps you stuck, I have a sketch like this but for a 4x4 grid, which is so easy. I've tried for half an hour to translate this idea to a dynamic grid with no luck 😞, if I find something that works I'll let you know. On the other hand, that digital garden idea looks very interesting, I'll take a look at the article you reference (with the always beautiful illustrations of Maggie Appleton ❤️) and maybe I'll start my own digital garden. Finally, you're so lucky to move to Barcelona, it's such a wonderful city. I spent last weekend in there to attend Sonar festival and also visited the Disseny Hub with this exhibition that you'll don't want to miss: Digital Impact https://www.digitalimpact.art/es/
