Thanks guys, much appreciated! Bruce, I'll be at the Barbican most mornings for the next couple of weeks - so pls ping me before you go! :) K.
On 20 August 2014 14:19, Bruce Durling <b...@otfrom.com> wrote: > Karsten, > > That's awesome. I'll be going to see it soon. > > cheers, > Bruce > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Karsten Schmidt <i...@toxi.co.uk> wrote: >> Hi fellow Clojurians, >> >> it's my absolute pleasure to finally announce the open source release >> of an art project I've been working on full-time since beginning of >> the year: >> >> DevArt Co(de)Factory is a joint commission by Google and the Barbican >> Centre London and is featured as part of DevArt at the Digital >> Revolutions exhibition, currently on show at the Barbican until >> September 19. >> >> Co(de)Factory is an installation & online design tool allowing >> visitors to create abstract 3D sculptures using code operations >> assembled with a visual programming tool and get the chance to have >> their piece 3D printed on an open source SLA printer, which is part of >> the exhibit. Furthermore, any artefacts in the online gallery can be >> edited further by others, thus forming chains of co-authorship. >> >> Project website: >> http://devartcodefactory.com/ >> >> Repository (incl. all source, assets, fabrication files, sketches): >> http://github.com/postspectacular/devart-codefactory >> >> The project was almost entirely (99%) developed in >> Clojure/ClojureScript and counts 5400+ LOC for just the Web UI / >> AppEngine backend (plus ~10K LOC in separately written libraries). The >> UI heavily uses core.async's pub-sub bus for most of its internal >> comms. The release also includes a sub-project related to the >> generation of 3D printed assets for one of the largest SLA printed >> structures so far (2.4 x 3.0 metres), and clocks in with another 800+ >> LOC. >> >> It was a huge challenge (or rather opportunity) to put CLJ(S) to the >> test and use it for scenarios (computational / generative design), >> which aren't often talked about in the Clojure community and for which >> there were hardly any (suitable) prior solutions or libraries >> available and hence had to be developed from scratch. Much of that >> development had already started to happen previously in an isolated >> manner under the http://thi.ng umbrella to slowly build up a >> collection of libraries with a mutual focus on geometry, mesh >> processing, rendering & visualization tasks. In fact, this project, as >> the first publicly available use case of many thi.ng libs, IMHO proves >> that our beloved language(s) is also super nice to work with in these >> contexts (just in case anyone had doubts :). >> >> Feel free to send me an email or reply here if you'd like to know >> more... Happy to answer any questions. <cheeky>Also happy about any >> Clojure job offers on projects of similar nature :)</cheeky> >> >> Well, I hope some of you find this release useful & educational. >> >> All my best, K. >> -- >> Karsten Schmidt >> >> w: http://postspectacular.com >> w: http://thi.ng/ >> w: http://toxiclibs.org >> >> -- >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your >> first post. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "ClojureScript" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojurescript+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to clojurescr...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript. > > > > -- > @otfrom | CTO & co-founder @MastodonC | mastodonc.com > See recent coverage of us in the Economist http://econ.st/WeTd2i and > the Financial Times http://on.ft.com/T154BA > > -- > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ClojureScript" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojurescript+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to clojurescr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript. -- Karsten Schmidt http://postspectacular.com | http://toxiclibs.org | http://toxi.co.uk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
