Hannu Salonen

Designing zero-carbon futures

[Hannu Salonen @hannusalonen]

Listening to @benprunty 's Transmissions from a Hidden World album properly for the first time – wow! So many great pieces with gentle stylistic nods towards Enigma, Tycho and others. Loving it!

[Hannu Salonen @hannusalonen]

@soralapio @vg_history @moshboy Had also a mind:blown moment with Wing Commander, when a friend played the game's score on a Roland MT-32. There was no going back.

[Hannu Salonen @hannusalonen]

@jeffthatnoise That's a nice color. The ejector / loading mechanism was pretty close to the c-cassette Walkman - such a satisfactory feeling!

[Hannu Salonen @hannusalonen]

Just for fun, here's how Barnard's star looks through unWISE imagery. A cosmic exclamation mark drawn by the star with highest known proper motion.

[Hannu Salonen @hannusalonen]

Evaluating a slightly different approach from previous @backyardworlds Planet 9 project based images. This time I'm querying imagery directly from unWISE NEO2, 3, 4 and 6 data sets. I guess it's possible to find movers (in the center) in this manner as well?

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@marckuchner Here's the filtering algorithm highlighting just a bright dipole(?). Which is interesting.

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More experimentations with @backyardworlds imagery. Left: originals. Right: filtered out all the pixels in high-entropy "neighborhoods", so what's left is blobs of some interest.

[Hannu Salonen @hannusalonen]

@marckuchner Yes, would be awesome to tune the algorithm and see how far it can go. I believe the blobs in this particular series are indeed ghosts & stars. Other series have provided movers as well, but prob. noise… If you have any interesting series in mind, I could use those for trials?

[Hannu Salonen @hannusalonen]

Working on a small Processing-based image blinking tool to make projects like @backyardworlds Planet 9 easier. Would appreciate if someone shared a good #mover image sequence for testing purposes.

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@McFunkypants Someone also tweaked the skeletal bone system, there seems to be less weight on the model's upper body.

[Hannu Salonen @hannusalonen]

@McFunkypants As a 10-y.o. kid I emptied my dad's coat pockets from loose change and sneaked into a local bar during the day. Luckily the bartender was friendly. They had a vertical SHMUP in the corner, on some kind of rotation. 1942, something like Raiden, and a space shooter… Awesome games.

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@McFunkypants That said, 3 strategies to reduce complexity: organize, hide, remove.

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@McFunkypants Larry Tesler said that in any system there's always a residual amount of complexity you can't take away - just shift the burden of it from one party to another.

[Hannu Salonen @hannusalonen]

OK that's it. I'm buying the Switch.

[Nintendo of America @NintendoAmerica]

Keep the beat and keep Hyrule from meeting certain doom when Cadence of Hyrule – Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring the Legend of #Zelda from @BYG_Vancouver comes to #NintendoSwitch this spring!

[Hannu Salonen @hannusalonen]

The 348 Boeing 737 MAX 8 individuals currently in service by country. (Data source: @planespotters website)

[Hannu Salonen @hannusalonen]

Loved the sound fx as well!

[Cabel Sasser @cabel]

Always loved this 80’s keypad that generates a new key sequence on every press — so you can’t shoulder surf. Great aesthetic even down to the “START” button

[Hannu Salonen @hannusalonen]

@moshboy It would be redundant to mention Major Airhole because we know he's on the bridge.

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@McFunkypants Newborn babies were bathed soon after birth to clean up the waxy vernix from their skin. It's like a protective moisturizer. Maybe your skin dried up and they oiled you up again? Did you feel more Mediterranean aftereards? Btw, which city?