koven ✨ ਕਵਨ

tools for wonder ꩜ AI & creative tech at via Magnit • author @the_butt_book cultivate collective joy ✨

[Melisa @MelisaSeah]

I'm hosting a workshop with https://t.co/7DxbeoWdrZ in SF on tuesday!

we'll experiment with otherworldly visuals to create dynamic interfaces with generative art together 🖥️

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

and find me on @MakeGizmos https://t.co/5CmkESm9ZU

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

interested in vibecoding, creative coding, or making things playfully?

come join our vibecode creative code jam today in SF! using @MakeGizmos or whatever tools you like 🌀🤩

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

more deets and RSVP here https://t.co/IidHaZfC1Z

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

@0xmmo @MakeGizmos yaaa! https://t.co/WboQumAS24

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

mirror that warps where you pinch, interactive selfie mirror creative coding vibe coding 🤩 been having fun with @MakeGizmos

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

more themes like this, i love it 🤩

[Gopal @gopalkraman]

last night, we hosted a demo night @southpkcommons on all things "fun."

stoked to share what @zan2434, @faionur, @elizalian, and many more are exploring on the frontier of joy:

[Alexander Chen @alexanderchen]

This is an awesome fork of Gemini Co-Drawing by @trudypainter by our friend @whichlight. It's so cool to have Gemini 2.5 not only output the next predicted drawing state, but actually co-think with you about what it might draw next. ✏️🧠

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

I've been interested in co-creative tools with AI for a while, esp doodling with AI. It's amazing to see what we can do as the tools improve, and lots more to explore!

here's a project from a couple years ago using stable diffusion img2img and p5js https://t.co/WIPWYnQpvX

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

doodle & diffuse: collaborative drawing with AI✨

@p5xjs + @StableDiffusion img2img

generate an image, doodle on it, and then generate an image from that, and then doodle on it, etc

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

What it would be like to co-think creatively with AI?

After you draw, Gemini gives suggestions on what it can add to the drawing, picks one, and automatically adds it.

Built on Gemini Co-Drawing by @trudypainter and @alexanderchen!

[Trudy Painter @trudypainter]

Co-draw with Gemini 2.0 native image generation… from @alexanderchen and me

Doodling + AI is a magical → it really starts to feel like Gemini is *with you in the canvas

Link: https://t.co/rIhVRhs3Gd

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

You can also see the list of suggestions and pick one for Gemini to draw.

After there are enough lines on the canvas, a few style features pop up too to transform the drawing as a whole. Things like color, texture, and surreal mode which is wild. Note: both these videos are 3x

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

love this!! ai co-creation 🤩

[Trudy Painter @trudypainter]

Co-draw with Gemini 2.0 native image generation… from @alexanderchen and me

Doodling + AI is a magical → it really starts to feel like Gemini is *with you in the canvas

Link: https://t.co/rIhVRhs3Gd

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

@svitlana_mm thank you!!! i love it, these are the exact ones i was thinking of in our convo

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

creative code gen starting with an image! love this experiment by @trudypainter

[Trudy Painter @trudypainter]

🧵 Photos → Creative Code using Gemini

I built an experiment that turns photos into interactive @p5xjs sketches using Gemini 2.0 Flash.

Unlike UI generators, this creates code that mimics the *behavior* of what's in the image - like smoke swirling or ripples spreading.

Check out this sunset + smoke simulation

[Future Sketches Group @ MIT Media Lab @FutureSketches]

Recordings in thread of our latest Lunch Lecture Series about computational tools for thinking and creating!

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

https://t.co/H0e2ImN4V6

[tldraw @tldraw]

We just launched tldraw computer

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

love playing with this — a canvas for prompting with text and images and easily chaining together flows. the creative fuzziness an LLM allows for makes it a delight to explore. from @tldraw :

https://t.co/pnbjQ8TlQj

[tldraw @tldraw]

Here's a silly idea: imagine a computer that runs on AI. No code, just natural language, infinite knowledge, and vibes

[Nieman Lab @NiemanLab]

New dimensions for news storytelling https://t.co/1vRgWS85v1

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

We can move from flat to dimensional stories with the new interfaces powered by LLMs. I’ve been prototyping what this might look like:

https://t.co/KGLmrNRnEh

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

I want to share a news storytelling provocation for 2025, coming from a toolmaker who’s been building media prototypes with LLMs over the past year.

The @NiemanLab at Harvard invited me to share a prediction for 2025, and here's what I wrote: 🧵

[koven ✨ ਕਵਨ @whichlight]

We’re caught in this tension. Social media pushes us toward simpler messages — bolder headlines, punchier takes, everything feels flattened. Yet at the same time, the world grows more complex, and stories must have more nuance, more context, and more perspectives.