#geometoric

[system76]

Winners of Superfan 3: Mission to Thelio

We had a lot of great submissions to Superfan 3 this year! There were a wide range of entries from technical to artistic, and on so many interesting topics, too. After much (much, much) deliberation, we are proud to present our winning entries:

Owen Rubel submitted his designs for a portable cloud, which would be about the size of a lunch box. But instead of a sandwich without the crust, his portable cloud is made of six Raspberry Pis on three power management boards. As to how it works, Owen says, “The software installed making it a cloud is merely docker swarm, with one node acting as the managing node and the other 5 acting as the worker nodes.”

Here’s what Owen’s awesome Portable Cloud would look like: 

Robert Hansen submitted his open source NSRL RDS Lookup Service, which helps digital investigators narrow down which files are relevant to their investigation. His lookup service provides a dedicated server for investigators to compare cryptographic hashes of files against a list of hashes created by the National Software Reference Library. How cool is that?

Learn more about Robert’s NSRL RDS Lookup Service here!

Eric Mann loved his Oryx Pro so much, he decided to write a review! In it, he covers the unboxing experience, setup, and his first thoughts on his new machine. When Eric isn’t at the helm as a kickass web developer, he’s probably kicking back on top of a mountain.

You can read Eric’s review here!

J. Matthew Turner switched from GNOME to KDE Plasma, but soon felt a longing for the graphics toggle he once had. So he made one! With this tool, Pop!_OS users with KDE Plasma can toggle between Intel and NVIDIA graphics, just like on the default setup.

See his project’s GitHub page for more info!

Daniel Griffiths sent us multiple submissions, but the one that stood out most was the fact that he designed, built, and maintains Pop!_Planet, a primarily open source hub for all things Pop!_OS. Daniel and Pop!_Planet have been an integral part of the System76 community, and we’re excited to have him onboard our mission!

Eric Olle presented a fascinating lecture on a Trauma Directors Tool Kit, written in R. The toolkit is designed specifically for medical professionals to aid them in injury prevention, diagnosis, and analysis of trauma. It allows for better communication of data between trauma centers that have different closed databases and may be unable to communicate otherwise. It also allows the user to make adjustments to the data depending on local variables.

Watch the full presentation here!

Bill Zaumen submitted multiple entries as well. Our favorite was an application he created that can encrypt his information to a backup device using GNU Privacy Guard (GPG). As he explains in his email submission: “The drive contains a very large encrypted file containing a LUKS file system, a long (32 byte) LUKS key that was created with a random number generator and that is encrypted using GPG, plus a directory that can be used as the mount point.”

See the GitHub page for Bill’s application here!

Dan Negrey submitted a web app he built for him and his family to predict the outcomes of NFL games. The web app was built on Dan’s Gazelle using Rstats. Though he’s currently in 3rd place in predicting winners, he is very much a winner when it comes to Superfan!

Check out his NFL game picker here!

Phi sent us a transmission from an outpost at the edge of the universe. In it, he shows us a demonstration of Geometor’s Explorer Project, which uses algebra to determine the golden ratio between points on a blank canvas. From the project’s website, “The GEOMETOR Project is a collaborative effort to explore the architecture of all that is. Whether we look at the architecture of nature (matter) or the architecture of logic (mind) - a resonance emerges in the form of a simple proportion.”

Dan Thompson uses System76 hardware to create things like ornaments, throw blankets, wall art, and doormats for Uni-Art. Uni-Art is a website showcasing the art and designs of the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, through various products available for wholesale.

Check out his cool artwork!

That wraps up our winners for Superfan 3: Mission to Thelio! We look forward to meeting our fantastic recruits when they join us in Denver on November 15th and 16th. For everyone else, be on the lookout for more on Superfan in the coming weeks!

[dawnmc-ce-blog]

shape

the shapes and compositions of my paintings are abstract forms of glasgows geometoric buildings, i have organically formed them so their shape is unrecognisable and like waterripples on the river ( i studied these forms alot last year in my project looking at the concept of impermanence of venice, so making these forms has become second nature and it is something i love to do as the outcome is so unique and personal)

[dawndivergent]

i decided to take these organic forms into geometoric, cutting out the spray painted negatives of my sculpture and building them up again into a collage piece... i have took inspiration from this within my creative enquiry, painting this and bringing in a physical depth within painting.

[dawnmcc77]

P&P

Process- In my work over the last few months I have narrowed my media choice, painting and sculpture. I have been experimenting with medias previously used created new ways of forming structure and shape

 Painting- pixelated- in relation to my concept I feel this work has captured me the most, I have created powerful abstract paintings that represent a digital screen grabbing an image till what was once there is completely lost. I have been exploring avenues in relation to impermanence as although this idea has a realtion to impermanence – nature captured by media – throwaway- a picture is so easy to lose or delete. Experiences are embedded within us for much longer than one moment. I have pixelated the water ripples because of their beautiful colour captured in which you can appreciate when it is broken up individualy by small shapes, again bringing it into this digital vibe that destroyes everything natural about it. But when viewers look at it, they wont feel negative towards it because of the inviting colours that mesmerise you. It will be a choise whether or not to reject the idea of technology capturing nature.

 Honeycomb shapes- honeycomb is meant to fit together and merge perfectly, my shapes are quite the opposite, all completely unique. Highlighting natures unpredictability, everything growing and dying at different rates – impermanence, these also have geometoric paintings on them inspired from previous paintings. 

Sculpture- I done some small experiemtns with string following on from process and enquiry where I just started to look at what interesting creations string could produce, I built up the string to make deep/ transparent colour. With colours from photographs of water. I was working with canvas frames but thought this wasn’t natural enough so I found curved branches in a woodland area that would create an interesting form to wrap around. Held up by two wood pillars on a plinth. I would like to take this piece further as I can imagine it very large scale either in a city atmosphere or a natural/ sea/sand environment I will need to experiment with this.

[soboku-cafe]

Geometric Earrings, Crystal Earrings, Cristal Jewelry, Geometoric Himmeli Inspired, Cut Cristal Earring, Dangle Geometric Earrings, Crystal

[naturallucky]

キューブと切り口

pov-rayアニメーションテスト

#pov-ray #3DCG #アニメーション #animation #geometoric

[dawnmc-ce-blog]

Brick lane gallery - concrete disco

i loved the organic forms that sucumb to the geometoric shapes, the sharp edges and thcik layering of colour is soemhing i am interested to attempt this style in my next painting. as these works create a great depth to them.

[dawnmc-ce-blog]

this article is very interesting, the way the artist applies her paint then works around the geometoric forms to put in her composition, this is an idea i am thinking about... using the geometoric shapes of the city then painting on top, very organic fluid type marks that weave in and out of the lines made...i will try this with spray paint.

[dawndivergent]

i like this embroidered piece but when taken off the hoop...looses its geometoric shape... this was frustrating after spending time over this.