This website is a virtual proof that I'm awesome http://khoparzi.github.io/ This is a first in a series of writings I’ve been posting on other platforms (the ones that don’t let you in unless you give them your data). I will be working on moving those out of their jails and put it out in the open web. This particular bit... Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:30:00 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2022-02-10-pwn-the-algorithm/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2022-02-10-pwn-the-algorithm/ Almost a month’s worth of Marching.js sketches exploring various experiments with Signed Distance Fields and combinatorial geometries through the month of March 2021. Marching.js is a JavaScript shader compiler specifically focused on ray marching via signed distance functions. https://gist.github.com/khoparzi/8bbe8542cf7f8b4292c1a0174c0f8b4c View this post on Instagram View this post on Instagram View... Tue, 30 Mar 2021 00:30:26 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2021-03-30-a-month-of-marching/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2021-03-30-a-month-of-marching/ Almost a month’s worth of Marching.js sketches exploring various experiments with Julia fractals through the month of July 2020. Marching.js is a JavaScript shader compiler specifically focused on ray marching via signed distance functions. https://gist.github.com/khoparzi/bb5c29b5e20cfde5d7a88a70c3629227 View this post on Instagram View this post on Instagram View this post on Instagram... Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:30:26 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2020-08-01-a-month-of-julia/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2020-08-01-a-month-of-julia/ There's lots to learn! - This is a demo post to show you how to write blog posts with markdown. I strongly encourage you to take 5 minutes to learn how to write in markdown - it’ll teach you how to transform regular text into bold/italics/tables/etc.I also encourage you to look at the code that... Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2020-02-28-sample-markdown/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2020-02-28-sample-markdown/ Last year I ended up working on an installation project that used a Kinect v2 camera. Since the pricing of the units are still pretty high in India even after MicroSoft moved on from them I decided to get a v1. The problem with those if you are not on... Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:30:26 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2020-01-30-running-kinect-v1-on-jetson-nano/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2020-01-30-running-kinect-v1-on-jetson-nano/ I’ve been on a Openframeworks trip for the past eight years or so and have wondered about starting up with Cinder lib at some point of time. I’m trying to see if 2020 is the year it’ll finally happen. Following some helpful instructions from Kousaka Kazuma: Make sure cmake is... Thu, 09 Jan 2020 19:54:32 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2020-01-09-lighting-up-the-jetson-nano-with-cinder/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2020-01-09-lighting-up-the-jetson-nano-with-cinder/ I’ve just finished work on an installation that involved a Kinect with MaxMsp patch (done by someone else) that sent over skeletal tracking data to a SuperCollider composition I wrote. The whole thing was going to run on a couple of windows laptops because MaxMsp doesn’t work on linux, and... Sat, 30 Nov 2019 14:42:45 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2019-11-30-headless-pi-setup/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2019-11-30-headless-pi-setup/ DDCcontrol is a software used to control monitor parameters, like brightness, contrast, RGB color levels and others. I have done this a few times on my various SBCs, so I thought I might as well document the process to install this utility that I end up using all the time.... Sat, 16 Nov 2019 11:35:26 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2019-11-16-ddccontrol-for-monitor-control/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2019-11-16-ddccontrol-for-monitor-control/ I’ve been meaning to crack open the Jetson and do something useful with it because it’s just been months that it’s been lying around and I haven’t been able to do anything with it. I recently was bedridden because of an almost epidemic of Dengue that has been ravaging these... Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2019-11-14-Nvidia-Jetson/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2019-11-14-Nvidia-Jetson/ Update in Nov 2023 After of years of fighting with Vino and vnc I’ve abandoned trying to use vnc and have instead been successfully using xrdp on the Jetson Nano. to install you just need to run sudo apt install -y xrdp Setting up vnc by fixing Vino Follow along... Tue, 02 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2019-07-02-Nvidia-Jetson-VNC/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2019-07-02-Nvidia-Jetson-VNC/ I just started playing with Ryan Kirkbride’s excellent Troop system to play with TidalCycles instead of using the Atom plugin. The first problem I hit upon right after initial playthrough was that I couldn’t use my favourite custom functions in my shared livecoding environment. The simple solution I’m using for... Mon, 03 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2019-06-03-Custom-BootTidal-in-Troop/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2019-06-03-Custom-BootTidal-in-Troop/ I have been posting a bunch of my music on Instagram for the past few years. Last year turned out to be specially prolific for lazy person like me, mainly because I decided to join #Jamuary2018 and was posting a short piece every day for the month. Later in the... Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2019-02-06-embedding-instagram-on-jekyll/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2019-02-06-embedding-instagram-on-jekyll/ As part of the lead up to our first Algorave India event Fat Finger Mayhem I had been posting a short live coding clip everyday for the month. This is culmination of that project. A post shared by Abhinay Khoparzi (@khoparzi) on Apr 11, 2018 at 1:19pm PDT A post... Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2018-06-01-30-days-of-code/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2018-06-01-30-days-of-code/ Setting up a TidalCycles VM I tried poking about with docker based SuperTidebox and variants for a long time but could never become comfortable with the emacs bindings. In the end I decided to setup a little plain and simple VM for myself. Following instructions from Installing arch on a... Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2018-04-23-tidal-on-arch-vm/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2018-04-23-tidal-on-arch-vm/ Announcing the first Algorave event in India!!! YAY! In the month of May 2018 I’m collaborating with Dhanya Pilo (Vj Decoy) for a creative coding workshop and performance in Bombay. Please plug yourself in this form to book your place for the free event. Google Forms Link From the offical... Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2018-04-11-fat-finger-mayhem/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2018-04-11-fat-finger-mayhem/ Why bother with another file sharing tool? These seem like a great idea when you are sending a one off file to someone when you don’t want to use a service like dropbox or wetransfer. zget even works on the local network, for when you don’t want to configure smb... Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2018-03-13-couple-of-intersting-file-sharing-tools/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2018-03-13-couple-of-intersting-file-sharing-tools/ What it says on the tin https://github.com/lvm/awesome-livecoding Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2018-03-12-loads-of-live-coding-resources/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2018-03-12-loads-of-live-coding-resources/ I missed this one So apparently Microsoft has allowed XBox ones to be able to be used as development platforms. This could work out great for getting loads of reliable machines (with powerful graphics) to run installation art projects. This really needs to be explored as soon as I can... Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2018-03-09-xbox-as-a-dev-kit/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2018-03-09-xbox-as-a-dev-kit/ A useful tutorial here http://www.tobiahz.com/2015/12/21/unity-5-training-videos-kinect/#more-106561 Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2018-03-09-unity-5-and-kinect/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2018-03-09-unity-5-and-kinect/ Using Processing on Linux I end up using derivatives of Ubuntu most of the time, so this should help with the install process. Installing Processing 3.x on Ubuntu Linux Systems. A few modifications need to be made for Elementary OS, for ex. there is need to use both sudo and... Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0530 http://khoparzi.github.io/2018-03-09-processing-linux/ http://khoparzi.github.io/2018-03-09-processing-linux/