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--- newsletters:2025-10 [2025/11/06 19:21] – [What we've been up to] osnr
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-If you'd like to see the latest (much more responsive) folk2 and gadget in person, **our next Folk open house is [[TBD|in the evening on ???, November ???]], in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.**
+If you'd like to see the latest (much more responsive) folk2 and gadget in person, **our next Folk open house is [[https://luma.com/w6dyisut|in the evening on Monday, November 24th]], in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.**
 ===== What we've been up to =====
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   * Brian Lee and Omar made a weather demo one morning:
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-  * Omar made a new version of the animation program that uses -atomically and non-settlement display canvas and works a bit better:
+  * Omar made a [[https://gist.github.com/osnr/c6370ccdd7f78eae3fd5ca8f80484006|new version of the animation program]] that uses -atomically and non-settlement display canvas and works a bit better and faster and less blinky:
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+  * Fun: Omar [[https://x.com/rsnous/status/1978956278719295637|posted a video]] of the gadget selection outline interacting with / reflecting off of a cup in a fun way:
+    * {{youtube>wsPk2vkVl-4?}}
 ==== folk2 -atomically ====
 Omar: I got [[newsletters/2025-09#wipatomically|-atomically]] (convergence-tracking subgraphs) into a reasonable state, and it's merged into the main osnr/folk2 branch now. This is great! This means that we have a complete feature set to actually merge all of folk2, I think.
-The main thing since last month was testing it with more 'real' programs and on the table: sprites, camera slice, dotted line.
+The main thing since last month was testing it with more 'real' programs and on the table: sprites, camera slice, dotted line. (The animation program above is one concrete result of fixing -atomically.)
 === Reap -atomically statements properly on convergence ===
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+I spent a while rearranging the concurrency and fences and stuff to try to keep multiple frames in flight. But it turned out that this was all just because the display modes are ordered differently on this GPU, so I threw that branch away, set the system to pick a better display mode instead of just picking mode 0, and now it works fine.
 ==== Gadget projector fix ====
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 === Open house ===
-  * Our friends Owen Trueblood and Kevin Lynagh and David Nolen came by at the beginning of the month:
+  * Our friends [[https://owentrueblood.com|Owen Trueblood]] and [[https://kevinlynagh.com|Kevin Lynagh]] and [[https://swannodette.github.io|David Nolen]] came by at the beginning of the month:
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+    * Owen playing with the gadget and testing calibration alignment with the table system:
+      * {{youtube>tv324OcYbzw?}}
   * We had a small open house on Thursday, October 30.
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-===== What we'll be up to in October =====
+===== What we'll be up to in November =====
+  * Our next open house is on [[https://luma.com/w6dyisut|Monday, November 24th]]
   * Omar: Set up a system for -atomically cleanup
   * Omar: Merge folk2
   * Omar: Maybe stereo-calibrate gadget and do some UI experiments with the full stereo setup (segmentation, projection-mapping, lassoing)
-  * Andrés: TODO
+  * Andrés: Giving a talk on Folk at a Visual Culture Seminar class at Parsons
+  * Andrés: Porting drawing shapes in folk2
+  * Andrés: Work on new demos featuring dot recognition
 ===== Links we've enjoyed =====