Noise really hurts detailed work. With a little noise software engineers find fewer bugs, productivity drops, & many tasks are disrupted.
But moderate noise may help creativity by disrupting your thinking! It makes it harder to think, but that may actually prompt new ideas.
Is it just me, but is there anyone else who didn't know that the famous Japanese artist Hokusai had an interest in tiling? Itโs news to me! There is a book of his replete of tilings:
https://t.co/VeLhs8AWWm
Further, he shows, or what can be interpreted as, a Cairo tiling of 1824!
Donโt forget: This was the real impact of NFTs for digital art - not having to ask for access or validation, but being able to carve out your own world where you always already belong.
My thousands of hours studying #Gimp's engine #gegl has paid off. I am at the point where I can effortlessly make many types of metallic gold text. Yes, this is dated and directly inspired by 90s-early 2000s graphic design software.
@KSmyth2010 @xxiainxx For most types of machine there is cheat codes to turn off the "multimedia", often involving pressing a couple of buttons for multiple seconds - and seldom documented in the decals. (I have done it on two different ones).
Back in late June 2021 I discovered Gimp's GEGL Graph filter and here are some of the earliest GEGL syntaxes I wrote. Probably written a day or two after discovering the feature. Little did I know that a year later I'd be making plugins.
HTTP::Tiny disabled SSL verification by default! This might be a bigger problem than first thought. Exposing users to machine-in-the-middle attacks. Upstream for HTTP::Tiny has not provided a patch or mitigation.
https://t.co/67OSwSJMHq
The Asahi bright light illusion (by @AkiyoshiKitaoka) evokes eye pupil constrictions in rats! ๐ญ Amazing study by @NelsonTotah in the journal Cerebral Cortex https://t.co/LujBlRJ2la
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Scientists found that only some bees can figure out how to do this on their own. But 60% of inexperienced bees watching this, learned the new skill
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