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@@valley-artifact sorry, I've been busy for the past few weeks finishing a new artwork. Will catch up with Discord in the next day to two. Yes, these exhibitions were overwhelming, especially visited in one session.

Our relationship to the world we inhabit is complex. What we classify as natural and unnatural is arbitrary.

That's so great to hear. Happy you got some good use out of these tools over the years.

At Tate Modern in London. It's on until 1st September 2024.

It's a good idea. There are markets for such things, though it's not always easy to connect with them.

Thank you, Ivaana!

Thanks, I hadn't considered that setting. It's a bit too much the other way: I don't want it to start recording if I'm turning the camera on to transfer footage. Like I suggested in the video, a long press of the record button from power off could make it easy to put it in record on start mode, if DJI could add it.

@@AlexMayArts there is a workaroud for that also. If you have your pocket set to start recording right after screen flip and you want to turn it on without starting the recording You actually have to push the record button without flipping the screen, and then it turns on but does not start recording. I know its backwards :) but i got used to it. maybe they could switch that around in some software update :) but for now that's how it works. I guess there is some logic to it because for data transfer you dont really need the screen to be flipped. but yes it's a litlle counter intutive.

@@telfer3388 oooh, that's one of those icons in the menu that I'd completely forgotten what they do! Great suggestion. Will have a play and let you know how it goes.

Thank you so much for including it!

Thank you. Every subscriber is hard won for smaller channels like ours, so I think that's why I was happier than expected. Good luck to you.

I'll have to respectfully disagree. I was eager to get away from the auto-processed look of phone photography and just enjoy the mistakes I made as I learnt to use a manual camera again. If I was in the wrong colour temperature, or there was a bit of motion blur, or its contrast is subjectively flat, I didn't automatically discard it as a bad image. I tried to look past that to what was in front of me and ask if that photo meant something special to me. Post processing would have been outside of that moment when I took the image. The photos in the video are records of that journey I took.

It is a testament to the map building in these games how much they are able to capture the impression of a place. Just enough detail to make it recognisable but still renderable on a home computer. Sorry to hear your trip got cut short. Hope you get to revisit.

Oh that's interesting. Did it feel disconnected, or was your brain trying to synthesise the two together? Driving in game was generally more fun than hitting those freeways for real. Still enjoyed it though, as a visitor.

That's very kind, thank you.

Thank you!

Sure, go for it - send me the results!

@@AlexMayArts slightly late update: it won't be for the gamejam after all because it's funner if i have more time to experiment

I felt the same way when visiting Florence after playing Assassin's Creed 2.

That's great to hear. Good luck on your journey.

Thank you. I did a first alpha Windows release yesterday and there was definitely much less angst involved! Having said that, I'm part way through Raspberry Pi support. Nice and steady...

You are correct: I am bigfug! Every system provides creative and professional opportunities. The balance between using industry standard tools having the same palette as everyone else, and using more obscure software that provide unusual and unique tools is a challenge. Most industry people seem to favour standardisation, for many good reasons, but I think independent artists should consider a much wider range of tools. Even old VJ software like VisualJockey Gold still runs. Authentic retro!

Somewhat similar. It uses nodes to build up functionality, but the aims of the software are probably different. TD seems like a great app though its not something I follow.

@@AlexMayArts TD does not really have competition. So pivoting in their direction might put fugio on the map if the artifacts are similar enough.

I made a patch that took real-time sequenced DNA information and turned it into music for a live art gallery performance: alexmayarts.co.uk/portfolio/sequence-music/

Thank you for the kind words.

Thanks for the Flatpak suggestion. I did check it out and it looks great for apps that can be isolated in single packages. Unfortunately, Fugio is designed with extreme modularity in mind, with potentially many independent 3rd party plugins, so I don't know that it's a good match.

@@AlexMayArts true. I have no idea how flatpak handles plugins.

I'm not sure how this would help - could you explain the approach a little more?

@@AlexMayArtsI haven't personally tried it, but from what I've observed, people often use ChatGPT or Google's Gemini chatbot for assistance. They take their code to the chatbot and engage in an interactive session for help.

​@@AlexMayArtsThere are some AI tools out there that can read a code project and interpret its structure, functions, classes, libraries, etc. Once it understands your project you could ask it to write documentation, ask where things could be improved, where performance is being bottlenecked or could be improved, building a new UI and more. Googles Gemini 1.5 model can do this since it has a large token window as the other commenter was saying. Fireships RUclips channel recently posted a video about it called "Google has the best AI now, but there's a problem..." (the problems with image generation) where he uploaded one of his code bases to test it out. In any case best of luck with everything, your project looks awesome! I'm going to hook up my midi keyboard to it and see what I can do. Thanks for making this!

Ah, thank you - I understand

Thanks for the comprehensive description - I'll look into it.

You could be right - I'm no UX designer. Maybe one day someone will come up with a better design.

@@AlexMayArts I only came across the system today, after thinking about looking into moving visual art a few days ago. What is the UI made from? From your perspective, how easy is access to the components, coupling between various elements?

@@gdr189 like any programming language, you have to familiarise yourself with quite a few key components before things start to flow. Just because it's easy (and cleanly decoupled) to connect nodes, you have to spend time to learn how to connect them up to do what you need to do. I tried to make it representative of how the underlying code was structured, but that incurred some level of complexity. You can't get away from it if you want to do anything complex and interesting.

Thank you, glad you like it!

Great suggestions. I'm working on the first one at the moment with a new plugin manager so I can distribute plugin development, and make it easier for others to get started, but keep it easy for end users to access plugins they want to use and keep them updated. The second point is sort of done - pretty much everything can be styled by CSS like stylesheets. But you make a good suggestion that a more modern light/dark theme would indeed be a good addition.

@@AlexMayArts This all sounds wonderful, definitely looking forward to diving into it and wish you all the best!

You make some very good points. It's not always easy to know what the business model might be when you start out on a project like this. Or quite what it's niche will be. I'm very passionate about digital democracy, especially when it comes to art production, so I wouldn't mind focusing on this. Fugio runs well on Raspberry Pi, which was a unique selling point. I'm not sure if that's still the case. Anyway, thank you for your good input. I hope you'll keep an eye on the project.

If it works for you and you're getting work done, I am sincerely happy for you.

I have already gone down the Open Legacy Patcher route and it works - amazing dedicated team on that project. I've taken this very Mac up to OS 13 so far, which is great. Obviously there will come a point when it's just not possible, but the longer I can put that off, the better.

That's great to know. I'm slowly working out the best approach for all this, but any new documentation will be on the GitHub wiki. If you do start down this road, it will be most useful to know what you want to know so I can prioritise sections.

@@AlexMayArtsokay thanks. I had a look at Fugio a while ago but didn't get very far. I can write code too, but I'm not in your league. I really like node-based programming tools because of how quickly you can get results. Priorities for me are scalable resolution, real-time processing and integration with other software. I'll have another look and post on the discord.

Fantastic, any ideas and suggestions welcome.

Thank you - the opening event is on April 2nd, if you can make it.