BIT-101
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Over the years I’ve taken part in a number of community projects. Like “7 Days of Code”, “Jamuary”, “Genuary”, etc. And a few I’ve started ad-hoc and wound up getting a decent following on - like “MayContainGifs” and “AuGIF” and something like “JulyIsForGIFs” (or was it “GulyIsForJIFS”?), where people created a gif or animation of some kind every day for a month.
I was feeling the need to do this again a few weeks ago, so created “Octanimate” where I commited to posting an animation every day in October. I didn’t really do anything to promote it other than just start using the hashtag on my daily posts. I think so far one other person has used the tag. But that’s fine. It’s driven me to create and post 19 animations so far this month and I’m confident I’ll get through the next dozen days. Most of these have been on Mastodon, and you can search the tag here:
https://mstdn.social/deck/tags/octanimate
If there’s any kind of theme for this one it’s noise. Mostly just warping things smoothly with 4D Simplex noise. (See my previous post.)
Also, the source for all these is up at https://codeberg.org/bit101/octanimate25. It’s all in Go using my own bitlib and blcairo libraries, which are also open source, though I don’t think anyone else in the whole universe uses them. But again, fine. I love them. And anyway, if you want to figure out a technique I used on any of these, it shouldn’t be too hard. Just note the license.
Anyway, I figured I’d post the first ten days worth here. and do it again for 11-20 in the next few days, and then wrap it up at the end of the month. No comments, no explanations, just animations. Here we go:
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