Readit Newscosiiine commented on So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork? lostpixels.io/writings/th... · Posted by u/cosiiine
I only make art designed to be printed on 10-12 color large format inkjet printers. Making plotter art is not inherently better or worse that printing, it's just a different type of art. I love what people do with plotters, but I just prefer doing printed versions, since what I make is often not possible with a plotter, as I deal in pixels (up to 200+ megapixels), and plotters deal in vectors. It's like Photoshop vs Illustrator, the don't compete as much as specialize in different things. https://andrewwulf.com if interested.
Agreed 100%. It all comes down to the artists intentions, and plotters have many limitations. My hope for this article was to expose people to other options.
Great portfolio of art btw, thanks for sharing!
cosiiine commented on So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork? lostpixels.io/writings/th... · Posted by u/cosiiine
Printers using CMYK isn't strictly true, right? Aren't you able to choose the ink colors when getting prints professionally made?
You're correct, there are some more sophisticated processes used by specialty printers such as CcMmYK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CcMmYK_color_model). Something like this will use more inks and less halftones, giving better results in some cases.
Or are you referring to other printing methods, say for example silk screening? There, you would definitely select a specific ink to use. It just depends on what your goals are.
I am a fountain pen convert myself, and use them almost exclusively these days for my algorithmic plotter art. This website is a fantastic resource that I’ve referred to countless times.
I’ve even written my take on why they’re such great devices for machine art: https://lostpixels.io/writings/fountain-pens-plotters
As a regular user of the Rotring 600, I recommend getting the EasyFlow 9000 refill for super smooth writing. It’s true that a ballpoint pen is just a vehicle for the refill, but the Rotring 600 is a pretty nice vehicle.
All that said, I reach for my Lamy Safari first. I also have a Pilot Vanishing Point as my “grail pen”, and while it’s a cool fountain pen, I don’t love the feel on paper.
I too have gone with fountain pens as my every day pen. There's zero waste with a bottle of ink and a cartridge. I find that the variety of inks to be superior too.
cosiiine commented on Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft securelist.com/open-sourc... · Posted by u/Daviey
Am I understanding right the extension was free to download code from internet and execute with enough rights to scan the user's disk? That is wild. Does this mean every company is one bad extension install away from having its entire codebase stolen or worse?
I naively assumed the extensions were 'sandboxed' to some degree.
Zed for example will start crawling your home directory and all children if you don’t have a project open. Documents, downloads, etc all uploaded.
> Built on a foundation of theft
Theft here means that AI learns from our content and benefits from it when generating new content. I'm not clear on why this is theft when an artificial intelligence does it but it is not when a natural one does. These guesses are an effort to understand this:
1. It's a matter of scale, AI does it faster and cheaper, and that quantitative difference is qualitatively different, and therefore morally different.
2. When my enemies learn from me it is theft, regardless of the physiology of their intelligence, and AI is an enemy.
3. A human intelligence requires far more friction to transmit what they learn, making their learning functionally more local, and less likely to be used to supplant me. When my content is used to supplant me it becomes theft, as in copyright infringement.
4. ???As an artist the frustrating thing is I was never asked about whether two decades of my work could be used by for-profit companies to create tools that make my market harder.
Tron (1982) which was disqualified from Oscar contention as they had heavily used computers for the graphics and this was considered "cheating".
I feel like we're at a similar spot today with AI.
There's a big YouTube channel that does special fx challenges that proudly proclaims "No AI" but the winner of the challenge used tons of physics and crowd simulators.
Is that not cheating?
That’s not cheating according to the definitions within this article that you’ve commented on.
Procreate is against gen AI on the grounded that it was unethically trained, and has become a vehicle of theft away from artists. They make a distinction between that and machine learning which is a very useful tools.
Also got a friend to hack away a chunk of the plastic casing with a circular saw so I could use pen adapters for modern Sharpie and Stabilo markers, which are much easier and cheaper to acquire than old format plotter pens.