Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.

  • Kylamon1@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’m a math teacher. I use my video game making knowledge from Godot to make little video games to review skills. Each takes a few weeks to make with game design, making all the art, programming, and making the worksheet.

    Here is my Disco Dj-Demo if you were curious what I mean.

    I think it’s fun, it’s not something I can really chat with others about.

  • Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    2 years ago

    I try to make something that looks good (or at least doesn’t look like random static) by running pictures I’ve taken through audio editing software. There are some extra steps that go into it to “trick” the program into importing the picture as if it were a sound file, making sure the header (information that tells your computer that this is a picture) doesn’t get fucked with, and then exporting the data in a way that it will be saved as a picture and not an mp3 or something else.

    On the rare occasion I do bring it up, I can literally watch people’s eyes glaze over. Until I show them a picture

    Edit: internet is really bad right now, will reply with an image when I can

    Edit2: picture was too big at 7MB. Hopefully a screenshot of the picture doesn’t look too bad

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 years ago

      Ok now that’s really cool

      I do a lot of photography and I’ve been trying to find something that I could do with some of my more experimental shots that makes them more… more‡. If that makes sense?

      You wouldn’t happen to have more details on how to do it would you?

      Edit: ‡ My more experimental shots are more done as like experimenting with how a shot is taken for like evoking a specific feeling or doing something strange in camera or really any number of reasons. Hell some of my experimental shots were accidentally taken pictures that are disorienting or confusing. I don’t share them often, because IDK it just seems like really personal sometimes. Those experimental shots feel less like photography and more like painting with photos.

      • Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works
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        2 years ago

        Absolutely!

        I have a bookmark saved on my computer at home to an old forum with the instructions I followed when I started doing this, and I can send that link later.

        There are two programs that I use, and both are free.

        GIMP - image editing software

        Audacity - audio editing software

        Here is the basic process from that bookmarked forum post that I can remember off the top of my head. If something is wrong (especially the Audacity import settings, since I don’t ever change them), I will fix it later.

        1. In GIMP (or other software of your choice) convert the image to a bitmap (.bmp). This step is very important!

        2. Use the option to import raw data as A-law with “little endian” (I have no idea what those setting do, but I assume it’s for keeping the header intact)

        3. Change the timeline in Audacity from time to samples and select everything after the 34th sample to edit and add effects (samples 1-34 are the information that tells your computer that this is a picture CHANGING ANYTHING IN THE HEADER WILL STOP YOU FROM OPENING THE IMAGE AFTER THE EDIT)

        4. Export the audio using the raw data option, selecting A-law again. This should re-save the “audio” as a bitmap image as it will not add an audio file header to the data.

        I believe the blue parking garage image uses reverb, or maybe a phasor… possible both to get that effect? But there are a lot of setting to mess with for each audio effect that can dramatically change the outcome. The trees picture was made by putting the original picture in the left audio channel, and putting a horizontally flipped copy of the image in the right audio channel. Delete the header from the flipped copy, and exporting the data smashes them together in this really strange mirror effect. Afterward, I would use GIMP for any color correcting, changing saturation/hue, simple stuff

        Edit: spelling and formatting

  • jellyka@lemmy.ca
    1·
    2 years ago

    I like learning about random ass hobbies without ever indulging in them.

    I watch an ungodly amount of aquarium / terrarium videos, lurk a ton of aquascaping communities. I owned a betta fish in an empty bowl when I was 12 and that’s it. (poor fish)

    I read all you could know about book binding fanfiction, never done it.

    I read a hundred pages long horse breeding guide for the game black desert online and I have no idea why. I only played the game for a month, spent most of it reading a google doc about horse. I’m not even sure I owned a horse in the game.

    Sometimes I try the hobby, for example mini painting, and don’t have the patience for it. But I still watch some random dudes on youtube paint for hours and sometimes they don’t even talk!

    No idea why I am like this

  • atlasraven31@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    I am learning lockpicking for fun. It helps me relax. I used a practice lock at first, then a cheap real lock. I’ve just learned that my firearms lock…yup, can be picked open in about 10 seconds. Equal parts cool and terrifying. Locks are waaay less secure than people think.

    It has the same “internet hacker” stigma so I avoid talking about it.