It was great to get along to my second "Makers gonna make" event at Codebase on Saturday, despite the Red Weather Warning on Friday. Many thanks to Peter Trizuliak for organising.

It's a pretty laid-back environment with a nice mix of focus time, breaks for pizza and free coffee / food (thanks to sponsors, Shopify, Codebase and The Source Coffee roasters). You can present what you've done and/or head to pub later, but no pressure to do either. The next event is coming up in February; I unfortunately can't make this one, but maybe see you at another!

Over the holidays I was thinking about where I am with the Biscuits project. The Linzer version has gotten to the point where I have a lot of the core bits of technical knowledge required, and I "merely" need to understand the aesthetics, if I wanted to copy the original artist.

Whilst it is good to attempt to copy to learn, I am now a bit uneasy with it as a goal. This is partly because the habit of "Computing People" copying "Artistic people" is becoming a bit rude in the current race-to-the-bottom of AI Art. However, it's also because I have some other ideas I wanna explore. So, I'm gonna do that instead.

I did a talk on this project at the GeoMOB Edinburgh event on 1/10/2024. The slides are available, but I'll give a summary of the accompanying explanation content here.

The "Biscuits" project began back in September 2017. It was inspired by a work of art by Armelle Caron called Les Villes Rangees: