I looked at the video, it’s nice. I didn’t see any Penrose tiles, though. Looked more like you were running the cellular automaton Rug rule on a lot of it.

The video saved to my cache then ran fine in Quicktime. I would have liked to save to hard disk for later viewing, but a problem in saving a .MOV format video to local disk is that if Quicktime opens it, then you can’t save it unless you’ve paid for the PRO Quicktime upgrade! I think I’ll change my settings to open MOV files with Realplayer, maybe they don’t have this behavior…

But that’s all peripheral. I’m happy thay you’re working with the Perplexing Poultry notion of realtime video processing. Stunglasses anyone?

The music “less than seven” on the PPP v.1.0 demo was composed by 35Hz (http://37hz.net) and realized as a joint-project between 35hz and 45hz.

Pekka (45hz)
PPP v1.0 demo is found here: http://www.pekanart.com/videos/video.html
(it is non-streaming big file, so save it prior watching)

The video demonstrates “Perplexing Poultry Philtre v1.0″ programmed on Quarz on the Mac. PPP concept is invented by science-fiction writer Rudy Rucker (http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/04/07/amsterdam-van-gogh/) and is a popular public-domain filter in the future, that enhances reality to make it appearing like Escher tilings (http://www.mcescher.com/).

PPP v1.0 also puts in practise concepts developed by Finnish Computer Music Pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi (http://www.frif.com/new2004/fut.html). One of his ideas was “Personal Communicator” represented in 1985, special eye-ware that includes a powerful computer, local-area network, microphones & earplugs, and high-resolution cameras & eye-projectors, that allows real-time modification of reality.

The concept of reality modification appears also in a recent sci-fi published by Charles Stross “Accelerando” (http://www.accelerando.org/reviews/), where the future superhero Mandfred Macs extends his intelligence with computer-spectacles. The starting scene curiously takes place in Amsterdam - the same place, where Rudy Rucker gave his speech on “Psipunk” - the next step of telephatic communication right in the quantum level. Original realtime capture of the speech was made by Luc Sala/Mindlift and can be viewed on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_bYYpiQNg4).

PPP v1.0 generalizes a bit of the PPP concept to allow input from camera and files, and not focusing just on tiling patterns, since there are many other enhancements that yield aesthetic values, too. There are also many limitations one needs to take in account to realize PPP technology that will run on the nowaday’s computer platforms, and at the moment Pekanart PPP Technology is more suitable for video postproduction usage than for personal reality enhancement.

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To Rudy: “and now everyone is online all the time”? I’ll love to read about it but I’d still like some sense of privacy. Having my waveform collasped every 30 minutes is not something I’d ever look forward to.