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iCE's Modern Version Of Old-Fashioned Quilting Bee
Ant writes "tiles.ice.org is a Web site with a cool art idea as a tribute to Salvador Dali. It is iCE (remember ANSI art, you old school computer users?)'s answer to the old-fashioned quilt party, minus the gathering of elderly women. It's a unique opportunity for collaborative artwork on the net. A huge image, composed of individual 'tiles' is created, one piece at a time. The goal when making a tile is to mesh your work as smoothly as possible with the surrounding tiles, while creating something cool, artistic, and if applicable, on-topic. Check out the finished sample. I love the ants in the quilt tiles!"
...can I PLEASE use the internet now?
No good deed goes unpunished. - Avon, Blake's 7
... we can quilt goatse into it!
In the history of the world, it has always been the power and vision of one single person that has created progress. This is another way to say that committees accomplish nothing.
Even with art, it's not the AIDS quilt we remember, it's Van Gogh's Starry Night. The individual is the creator of art. Art by committee is soulless.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/zoomquilt.ph p
now thats some surreal collaborative art...
Ahh... I love the thought of posting a site dedicated soley to serving images upon the Slashdot main page. In fact, I can't possibly think of any faster way to completely annihilate a server and it's connection to the internet.
Like linking to a predominately text site doesn't trash the site, someone thought it would be a good idea to link to a picture site? Like what, you expected people to be able to view any of the pictures before the server turned into a steaming pile of goo?
Well, I got to see one, nya nya nya!
Tiles was a project i beleive started by our dear friend Slothy of iCE who i've worked with on more than one occasion and have known since i was 16 as an iCE member.
iCE has always been an excellent organization of artists that are extremely talented and have remained friends for a long time now. Tiles is proof of the many great ideas Jon (slothy) has had over the years. Looking at the work in the tiles is pretty interesting and its a lot of fun.
Nice to see it on slashdot. I know Jon and other iCE members such as myself are frequent readers of slashdot.
Enjoy!
I remember iCE.. when I was begging for my board to be a distro in the Chicago area at the tender age of 13. RaDMaN from ACiD occasionally reads the slash - and as I understand it, ACiD is still an art group to this very day. I'm glad to see iCE is still around as well.
Two thumbs up for L337 TheDraw skills.
I didn't get to see even one. Do they have any metrics for the /. effect as related to the number of posts? (Only 9 when I went to the Web site.)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
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Given that hacking draws so much from model railways (Tech Model Railroad Club) perhaps it is valid to say hackers have been quilting for years??
Yes, and I remember that when I removed all the fancy screens and went text-only, people liked my bbs better. It could be because I was the only BBS in town that still accepted 300bps. Everyone got 45 minutes; why would I care how many bits they get in that time? I didn't have any files sections anyways. TradeWars2002, Baren Realms Elite, a Graffitti wall, and local messaging were enough to keep my line busy almost 24/7.
I remember contributing to tiles.ice.org uhrm, what, 5 to 6 years ago? What suddently makes this NEWS?
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http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/82e3e840a62dd614b 01cd89182c8373a/index.html/
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http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/82e3e840a62dd614b 01cd89182c8373a/index.html
We're building our new server atm. Actually, it's built, but obviously a week too late :|
The ASCII Art wikipedia story lead me to ZZT, an old fav of mine. Oh the wonders of nostalgic computer games. Wonder if this will play on my Athlon.
ZZT was an ANSI-based computer game, created in 1991 by Tim Sweeney, later the designer of Unreal.
Thats the coolest thing about Wikipedia and tabbed browsing. I can start at Ascii Art and end up on Alberto Lleras Camargo in a few clicks. Maybe I should make a plan to read all of Wikipedia and get a story on slashdot like that Bratanica guy.
And what ASCII related post wouldnt be complete wihtout a link to ascii porn
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
Deviantart has had a similar idea in its mosaics category for quite some time. Being possibly the largest community art sites it has some nic emosaics in there.
I.O.U One Sig.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/zoomquilt.ph p
Hearing about phrack yesterday, and about iCE today, makes me yearn for the BBS days again. It's great to hear that these popular groups are still somewhat active, even if some are close to retiring.
:)
Viva le BBS!
SNACKS ARE AWESOME
This is similar to deviantART mosaics. They don't seem linked to directly on the main page anymore, but they can be found here. A great example of a congruous mosaic is The skin mosaic II.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/02/043922 6&tid=152
What this really needs is a download button so I can download the composite quilt and use it as a desktop or something
I guess I'll just have to take a couple screenshots and stitch them together manually...
What a dweeb. Say, if you don't like /., how about you just go away?
/. exists, they have a moral right to partake in its direction.
/. has some serious problems with the degree of professionalism demonstrated by some of the editors. There are times I'm surprised that /. hasn't been sued for libel for some of the inaccurate information they've posted in stories where even RTFA'ing would of informed them otherwise. Hundreds of thousands of geeks come here daily and many are inevitably going to give some degree of credence to what they see on the front page. I'm not asking for the New York Times here but at least some basic proofreading and making sure the facts are vaugly right before they post it for everyone to see would be nice.
Yeah, because when something good has problems you should just abandon it instead of trying to correct them. Those who post the stories and comments are the reason
The main effect of your ranting is to make me rather like "michael", whoever he is. He's certainly an improvement on you.
Ahh, because the messenger defines the message? Just because the messenger isn't perfect does not change the fact that
I stole this Sig
there's a very comprehensive image 2 color-ascii sourceforge project that i just happened to use yesterday to make my blog's background, when i failed to find a cool old ANSi menu to turn into my theme (i was thinking like a leet revengebbs theme, but i never find menu themes anymore, only picture art).
check out img2ascii, with a live demo here (please don't punish their server, you can grab the code and run it locally or choose from other mirrors)
this is the image i ended up making, the html had too many color tags and ate memory, so i took a screenshot and turned up the compression w/ some contrast adjustments.
i'm sure purists would disdain, but i'm happy to nonprofessionally excercise a skill i've always envied ^^
Thought it said Quitting bee.
Finally, a competition for something I'm actually good at...
-- Mace only makes me hornier.
I've had something that played on this same idea up for a few years now:
;)
http://www.tru7h.org/projects/society2/
Obviously it's a bit crude, and someone had a fetish for pacman ghosts a ways back, but it's going on 3 years of accumulation now.. can't bear to take it down.
Think it gets like.. 5 hits a month.
That'll teach me for taking a look at -1, but I was hoping for another mirror site, since the link was apparently already /.ed before the first mirror managed to get a copy. If someone wants to complain about the editors, it might be reasonable to suggest that they set up mirrors and include the links before they publish the URL of those wimpy little servers.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
If you use mozilla/firefox, you can go on the page properties and download it from the "media" tab.
;)
Or you can just download it from here as I just did that job to you
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A Tribute to M.C. Escher I invite you to go back to tiles.ice.org and ice.org once the server recovers to enjoy our years of artwork.
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It's not related, the thing is that this forum lacks any ability to start any of your own threads. So if you want to reach the readers you have to post in an unrelated thread.
I don't think the orginal poster would have cared to post an unrelated post if it weren't for the influence this site have on the online world as a whole.
I agree on the problem, but do not think that it's neither possible nor good to do something about it by lowering the standards of slashdot. The sollution, I think, is to create an alternative. Start or find a site to replace slashdot and post insightfull comments there, making it an interesting alternative.
The alternative sites I've seen so far has been to dead or contentless to make me stay. You will have to change that, focus your activism on getting insightful people to post on other places instead. Why not send a message to those who make great posts on slashdot?
Sebastian, posting anonymously to save karma.
maybe right-mouse click on the quilt image and choose save picture/image as... ?
Sample this!
Does that mean you're the anonymous coward removing your mask now?
:)
/.ed before the first mirror managed to get a copy. If someone wants to complain about the editors, it might be reasonable to suggest that they set up mirrors and include the links before they publish the URL of those wimpy little servers.
/. doesn't want to deal with the legal, and more importantly, bandwidth issues of mirroring, there's http://mirrordot.org/ (I haven't really used them but have seen them in comments) though from their front page I wonder if /. might have legal issues with them. I recall some trouble with http://alterslash.org/ along that grounds some time ago but they seem to have changed their page somewhat since then, they could also just link to the google cache (no images although).
Sorry, I'm not the poster you're looking for
That'll teach me for taking a look at -1, but I was hoping for another mirror site, since the link was apparently already
That's a reasonable idea, especially for the easily clobbered sites such as the above, the problem is that
The fact is they have to realize that posting links to small sites without warning just doesn't work for a site of this scale. Before they post these links they really should give the webmaster an advance notice, either to see if something can be arranged to allow for the extra traffic, or to abandon the story altogether. They've resisted advance warning in the past but considering that I cannot recall a single small server that had actual NEWS and not something that could be (and often is;) posted weeks or even months later waiting isn't an option (and gives them more choice on the slow news days). To the abandoning of the story I realize they don't want to drop a story on some cool site because of some wimpy server but the fact is that even if they go ahead and post there still no story on a cool site, just rambling with dead links! Links like this to small sites that die upon impact do nothing but frustrate readers looking for non-existant content and harm the people who run the actual site that was so cool in the first place.
I stole this Sig
OK, so maybe NSD isn't always on the leading edge and iCE has been around a while, but the sequence of appearances this weekend couldn't be a coincidence, could it?
"Even for Slashdot, that was a very obscure reference!" - Anonymous Coward
Well, actually if /. has a zombie network of their own they could try a little DDoS test before the posting. ;-)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Even after the groups go, their members are still very much active on the Internet. But yeah, I sure feel like an old fogey sometimes.
Civil Disobedient
-= ACiD | iCE =-
You do realise that if we post, we can't moderate anyone down, don't you? :P
*lol* the scrotum in the middle of the pic. I bet van gogh never thought about scroti as art.
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I also liked how my ANSI animations ran really nicely on a 2400 bps modem but ran too fast on anything higher.
I really don't think this a valid point seeing how it only happened once and in this specific situation.
ANSI isn't old-school. TTY art is old-school.
I've thought it might be interesting if ICE took a well known painting (public domain, obviously) (or photograph or something) and used that to preset the edges of the tiles. Then after it is done, look to see if you can detect any remnants of the original in the results. Obviously if the edges are preset some large number of pixels into the tile it will have a greater resemblance than if they only go in a pixel or two. All the better if the participants don't know whats going on.
For those that still want to see ansi art: http://www.sixteencolors.net/ -- It needs a lot of work, but it's there.
I've received a few emails about this Slashdot posting because this project is very similar to something we've been doing on SITO.org (once upon a time, OTIS) since the 20th century. A latticework quilt with animation (since 1995): http://sito.org/synergy/hygrid A zoomy quilt (since 1997): http://sito.org/synergy/gridcosm Other one-off grid/quilt projects: http://sito.org/synergy It's a fun medium, but is it news?
lmao!
Now don't I feel stupid. I didn't realize it was one image -- as I clicked on the image and it loaded just a single tile's information