{"id":1646,"date":"2023-01-08T01:57:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T09:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2023-01-08T02:21:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:21:01","slug":"genuary-2023-impossible-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/genuary-2023-impossible-paint\/","title":{"rendered":"Genuary 2023: Impossible Paint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I love to tinker with code that makes pictures. Most of that tinkering happens in private, often because it&#8217;s for a project that&#8217;s still under wraps. But I so enjoy watching the process and progress of generative artists who post their work online, and I&#8217;ve always thought it would be fun to share my own stuff that way. So when I heard about <a href=\"https:\/\/genuary.art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Genuary<\/a>, the pull was too strong to resist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a snapshot of some work in progress, using a realtime watercolor simulator I&#8217;ve been writing in Unity. Some thoughts on what I&#8217;m doing here: it turns out I&#8217;m not super interested in mimicking reality. But I get really excited about the qualia of real materials, because they kick back at you in such wonderful and unexpected ways. What I seem to be after is a sort of caricature of those phenomena: I want it to give me those feelings, and if it bends the laws of physics, so much the better. Thus, Impossible Paint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Genuary 4: Intersections (Impossible Paint study 1)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/787280769?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to tinker with code that makes pictures. Most of that tinkering happens in private, often because it&#8217;s for a project that&#8217;s still under wraps. But I so enjoy watching the process and progress of generative artists who post their work online, and I&#8217;ve always thought it would be fun to share my own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/genuary-2023-impossible-paint\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Genuary 2023: Impossible Paint<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,132,9,123,15,17,60],"tags":[223,220,221,222,117],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-effects","category-fun","category-graphics","category-npar","category-personal","category-video","tag-fluid","tag-generative","tag-kubelkamunk","tag-simulation","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}