Amazing work! David
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:31 AM, 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. -- 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.
