In nature, nothing grows endlessly: everything matures, transforms, and eventually settles. What if we treated our digital files the same way? While computing usually equates scalability with expansion, Permacomputing explores the possibilities of scaling down.
      As part of the symposium “Spacing – Learning Between Spaces” at Bauhaus University Weimar, this workshop treats scaling as a form of translation. Through experiments across digital and analog forms, we will search for what remains essential in constrained environments. To support this, you can explore the    for methods creative reduction. Participants are invited to    to share all their evolving files.

Status quo ante. My keynote slides for today as pptx (which is itself a zip of xml and images.

Prompt: "Ok. That's sure one approach. Let's render the slide content as markdown. Ignoring the two images for now."

`quarto render keynote_content.md -t beamer`

"Hi Claude. My objective is to play around with concepts around: "In nature, nothing grows endlessly: everything matures, transforms, and eventually settles. What if we treated our digital files the same way? While computing usually equates scalability with expansion, Permacomputing explores the possibilities of scaling down.       As part of the symposium “Spacing – Learning Between Spaces” at Bauhaus University Weimar, this workshop treats scaling as a form of translation. Through experiments across digital and analog forms, we will search for what remains essential in constrained environments. To support this, you can explore the    for methods creative reduction. You are then invited to    all your evolving files." My objective is to take the content of this powerpoint (originally odp) and render it using a minified javascript framework and to make sure the standalone size of the file (no web calls) not only can be used for the presentation in the same way, but demonstrates other presentation formats. To begin with, are you able to unpack the contents of this .zip (which is a renamed pptx?)" (Claude Opus 4.1)

drawing looking at the ascii code

A painting from my father

Blurred the ascii outcome, pump up the contrast, and trace the image in grayscale, saved in svg

ascii code screenshot, added contrast.

Black-white ascii code

the outline of the greyscale svg with 0,25pt

color reduction from https://pal.constraint.systems with "Solarized Dark Higher Contrast"

Trace from small jpg with greyscale.

Edit with Vector Halftone Maker, save as svg

colored-ascii version.

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