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In 1906 an English mathematician named Charles Howard Hinton published a book arguing that the fourth dimension was not merely something to be calculated but something a person could learn to see, given enough practice.

charm.farm When I first wrote about charm.farm in 2023, the charm was a self-contained HTML document: a 256×256 bitmap, a 60-token caption, and a chain of JSON Web Tokens embedded in <meta> tags.

The Delve (codename: YES-hybrid) pipeline treats game balance as an empirical systems problem, using D&D 4th Edition tactical roles as the functional heuristic for piece design.

blackmail.fyi Knowledge graph extraction pipeline + interactive WebGL visualization** of entity–relationship data from Whitney Webb’s One Nation Under Blackmail (vols 1&2).

The Ghost Campaign is an always-on fantasy world simulator that advances in real time and records what happens.

Weather as a Service provides on-demand weather for fantasy role-playing games.

Because I need to numerically simulate castle sieges, I also need to simulate an economy capable of supporting both castles and sieges.

http://mbutler.org/wp-content/uploads/Court-Hill-Equinox.m4a Court Hill Equinox is a sound piece made on the equinox at Court Hill, where I live.

Baseball Simulator code Baseball Probability Toy is a small simulator for exploring baseball outcomes through probability rather than play-by-play realism.

https://github.com/mbutler/Pluck Pluck is a lightweight JavaScript sound library built on the Web Audio API.

https://gist.github.com/mbutler/24ba7d2b46d21aa0cef9aa760da9126d Zalvek the Cipher is an experiment in creating self-contained, cryptographic game characters that exist entirely within a single HTML file.

Hexcom is a large, ongoing mission-based tactical play environment for Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition, designed and operated as a Discord-native system rather than a traditional campaign.

Next Generation Semantic Search grew out of a game a friend runs on WhatsApp called Picardle.

https://monsoonstation.com/ Monsoon Station is a real-time weather music project that generates evolving sonic landscapes from live atmospheric data.

Exhibition at the Beverly Art Center, Chicago [note: if you would like to take ownership of the digital surrogate of your physical print from the show, go to the URL https://iws.mx/charm.farm/<hash>.html – where <hash> is the long random string of charact…

Microscope GPT is a custom GPT configured to support play of Microscope, a collaborative world-building role-playing game.

charm.farm is an art collective implemented as a distributed autonomous organization.

Version 1.1 Table of Contents Introduction Objectives Rationale Color Term Choices Ordering of Color Index Use of ASCII Characters for Keys Use of Numbers for Values Key/Value Pair Representation Color to Number Mapping Protocol Description Encoding Decod…

charm.farm Part of the We Are Tech and Tech Are Us exhibit at Agitator Gallery, Chicago Powered the relics featured in dATAPLOT: Shared Hallucinations at Beverley Art Center Art Machines or… A Hypothetical Blueprint for the Emergence of New Media.

Mazz Muzzleflash’s Automatic Drawing on the Radio is an application that compiles GPT scripts converted into speech and spliced together with music downloaded from the web into a radio program.

“Think of this type of NFT as a magic item from your Dungeon Master.

In response to the rise in Synthetic Arts and AI being banned from most Art communities.

shadow I turn in confusion.

An artist, fed up with his Art not being Real, decided to work on only one painting for the rest of his life.

My last performance of Intermedia Workshop was in May 2003.

Gallery visitors feel simulated weather phenomenon generated from data collected by scientific instruments in a local nature preserve Puppeteers control real mollusk “puppets” through office equipment.

Proof-of-concept for a vinyl record.

Non-Fungible GANscapes is a series of digital landscapes generated using a Generative Adversarial Network and distributed as non-fungible tokens.

Allows users to load text files and create custom annotations, which are stored in a database.

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Originally appeared in Infinite Regress In 1983, at the tender age of 8, I had my first real crisis as an artist.

I’ve recently been interested in the Traveller RPG, in particular, the Mongoose 2nd Edition.

Towards an artificially intelligent dungeon master http://iws.mx/aidm/ It was announced recently that Lee Sodol, 9 dan rank Go player, was quitting the game professionally, citing the dominance of AI as a contributing factor to his retirement.

The people of the Seventh Mountain worship the “new gods”.

This semester’s Phoenix Command textbook Phoenix Command work continues apace as I combine the core systems documents into one 384-page hard cover book.

Ghost Ops Family Planning – generated with GPT-2 For almost 20 years I’ve been generating books with various pieces of software.

My obsession with Phoenix Command enters year two as I create a mobile application to help manage Phoenix Command games.

This is a story map I made for my mom about her dad’s time in World War II.

Mapplication is a tool I built with my co-workers (Rob Shepard, Ethan DeGross, and Alyssa Varner) as a way to rapidly prototype maps for researchers and scholars.

Marti Teixidor 1930 Barcelone Dresden 1990 Barcelone Musée Européen d’Art Moderne.

I have recently been very interested in Truth as a value premise.

see also: phoenixcommand.net In February of this year, I became fascinated with this 30 year-old game called Phoenix Command.

A forest reading of the classic Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem, Kubla Khan

PLAY KARATE GOLF In a futuristic world, one karate master must travel from golf course to golf course, fighting the ultimate dragon.

Pirate Cup is a game based almost exactly on the 1988 FASA classic, Circus Imperium.

This node app generates random json maps compatible with Tiled and Phaser.js.

Recently, I’ve become interested in the so-called “funnel method” of character creation in the RPG Dungeon Crawl Classics.

For the past couple of days I’ve been fascinated by the Mythic GM Emulator.