Code16: Kinect Tracking, ML Lyrics & Code Nostalgia

Where hands become liquid, algorithms write songs, and old code finds new life

The Delta Between Making & Sharing

I rarely post work daily because I'm never sure when something is "finished." My Kinect hand-tracking experiments—where liquid effects flow from moving fingers—remain in this limbo between creation and sharing.

Sometimes the gap between making something and releasing it becomes a project itself.

Switching to Windows unlocked exclusive TouchDesigner features, particularly with Kinect body tracking. I'm including one failed experiment here too—sometimes acknowledging dead ends is its own form of completion.

Digital Starscapes

Inspired by Bileam Tschepe's tutorial, I created particle animations in TouchDesigner that generate celestial-looking patterns. Simple rules producing complex beauty—individual points creating emergent systems that feel almost alive.

Frank Ocean's AI Ghost

My machine learning experiment attempted to predict lyrics for Frank Ocean's next songs. The results exist in that fascinating space between coherence and surrealism—sometimes touching something genuine before dissolving into beautiful nonsense.

Websites as Archaeological Sites

Dailies #13 documented an update to Caider's webpage, continuing my ritual of embedding old JavaScript code with each site revision. These digital artifacts create technological strata—code layers revealing both the project's history and my evolution as a programmer.

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Wave Fundamentals

Shiffman's tutorial appearing in my feed pulled me back to coding basics. Starting with simple wave generation, I evolved the project into an object-oriented system with waves stacked upon waves. This exploration reconnected me with the satisfaction of building systems from first principles.

Digital Preservation

These experiments—from Kinect tracking to AI text generation—remind me how quickly digital work becomes inaccessible without documentation. Hardware dies, platforms change, APIs disappear, and years of experimentation vanish except in screenshots.

Perhaps that's why I maintain this blog despite irregular posting—it's not just sharing but preserving breadcrumbs that lead back to moments of discovery that might otherwise dissolve into the digital ether. )