Creative Clojure

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Clojure and Clojurescript power concrete creative systems: a custom computer‑vision marker system produces 750,000 printed lap tags decoded with OpenCV and a Clojure decoder; a Chrome visualization shows museum visitors on a 10 m projection fed by a Java physics sim sending positions over websockets at 30 Hz; GPU work uses OpenCL/OpenGL to update a 3.2 million particles sphere (OpenCL inner loop vs minute‑scale Clojure); a tiny morphogen language (eight verbs) generates 3.5 m 3D‑printed sculpture with STL export and Raspberry Pi control; geom library offers 2D/3D types, boolean mesh ops, SVG export and multidimensional arrays.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 5:17Clojure beyond web dev
3. 8:31Early Clojure projects
4. 11:43Google Web Lab
5. 14:18Geometry and fractals
6. 17:51GPU-accelerated desktop
7. 21:06The Thing Project
8. 24:41Morphogen language
9. 28:153D printed sculpture
10. 32:16Workshops and community
11. 35:08Geom library features
12. 37:36Closing and Q&A

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