Muralizer: it prints on walls!
An Open Software project in San Francisco, CA by Josh Myer ·
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Update #4: Software is hard, let's go sleeping (5 pieces of great news)
Posted on November 13, 2009
First news: I rewrote the whole software stack from the ground up this week, after running into some problems in preparing demo art for someone. It's been exhausting, but things look a hell of a lot cleaner now, and it's going to be great for modifying it as time goes on.
Other exciting news: someone wants demo art! Someone you've probably heard of if you're into hip fashion on the West Coast or NYC. They're planning an installation of a muralizer in their flagship store here, which is fantastic! I'll have more definite news there later, but it's feeling less tentative every sheet of sample art I produce.
I need to get some sleep tonight, as I have an interview with someone tomorrow. An international publication is doing a piece on Kickstarter, and wanted to talk a bit about Muralizer. I'm looking forward to this, if nothing else, as a chance to practice talking to journalists again. It's something I haven't done much of in the last few years (working in research departments, you're kind of not allowed to...). So, it'll be fun to get back into the saddle of that.
And, the most exciting piece of news: tomorrow is also the first public-ish Muralizer demo! It's going to go fantastic, since it's at an Elementary School. My friend is demoing electronics kits for some kids and their folks a science-y event, and I'm tagging along to show kids Muralizer. So, I need to find some kid-approachable art, and, more importantly to me, work on my "Math is cool!" spiel for third graders.
The last, and most enheartening piece of news: there's still time for me to catch some sleep tonight, despite all this. Call me self-centered, but this is the one that I look forward to the most. Video of the demo art, as well as images, and more of the podcasts, will be coming up soon. I've been totally wrapped up in rewriting software that I've barely left my house this week, and have been slack about keeping you all updated. I'll try to be better about that going forward.
More to come!
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For $2^6-1 ($63), you can get your very own vector graphics file printed out on 2'x3' paper, then mailed to you. It might not be totally perfect, but I'll do my best to make it work out.
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For $2^8-1, you'll get one of the first beta muralizer proto-kits. These might not be the final kits, but they'll be close. They also come with beta firmware: you'll be an integral part of making muralizer awesome, and get early access to the platform for your art.
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For $2^8+2^7-1 ($383), you can pre-order the final kit, and be among the first to get your grubby paws on a printer that goes to 11 (feet).
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For $2^9-1, I will personally assemble a muralizer and send you the finished product early. It's like the beta program and the finished product thing, all wrapped up in one package. One fully-tested, known-good, line-drawing package.
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For $2^10-1, you put me under the needle. I'll have an artist permanently ink an entry from the geometric art series that inspired muralizer on my forearm. It's a nine-gon, listen to the podcasts for details, which would be a great way to cap off this project. If someone kicks in this money, I'll get that tattoo, and send the video of it happening (and me saying thanks) to the sponsor.
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Full-time hacker, used to work on artificial intelligence stuff, art-impaired, interested in geometric designs, the intersection of art and computers, and wearer of spiffy ties.
I quit that day job thing to develop community projects. As part of that, I'd love it if we could all work together to make the world a more beautiful and better informed (ie: awesomer) place.
I started sketching and programming in high school, and haven't ever really stopped either one. That said, I got pretty good at programming; my sketching... not so much. I still love doing it, though, and I like working on projects that allow me to express my artistic impulses with the precision and malleability of computers.
When I'm not working on computers or drawing, you'll find me tinkering with radios (I'm a ham: KJ6ANM), reading math textbooks (currently: statistical methods), and borrowing other people's cats (we all need to be disdainfully ignored sometimes).
