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There is one thing though: I also have LittleSnitch installed and it shows that Artpip often tries to connect to direct IPs.
Personally, I don't like giving apps permissions to connect to some random IPs.
Would be nice if it used something more meaningful, like images.artpip.com.
This is really great. Would love to see a version available for Smart TVs.
I had a startup that was working on easy art access. Essentially A Spotify for Art with both public domain and contemporary art. Decided the market just isn't there. But may do a Kickstarter of the device or run a simplified version of the software people could access for free or very cheap and see if any interest develops.
To elaborate on a tough situation, Google does show some contemporary art in its Chromecast rotations but the artist is not reimbursed for it. It's all done in name of publicity. Companies working in this area have a market on one side of artists who have little money, so you are a cost to them even to digitize their works. And on payer side you have numerous free art resources from museums. And Google who uses it as a culture talking point and just-good-enough feature in their products.
I think there are several markets in art delivery but it will take connections, money, and luck to prise it open.
Creator here! Artpip started off as a side project to help me learn a bit more about art in general and has grown from there. It's been great fun making it and I have learnt A LOT about art history in the process. I can now recognise a lot of painters and have got pretty good at dating/categorising paintings (compared to before, at least!). Happy to answer any questions.
If you make a collection that fit a screen or with proper cropping and have each individual user create it's own account it would save you the bandwidth :-)
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Could it update the lock screen picture as well? I find that a lot more interesting than the desktop which I barely ever see.
I presume you mean on Windows. Unfortunately this is pretty difficult. I'd like to make it happen so I'll look into it again at some point.
create this key with a string value called 'LockScreenImage', this string should point directly to an image, i.e: C:\.... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization
throwaway because of not wanting to get arrested for hacking the registry
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Could it update the lock screen picture as well? I find that a lot more interesting than the desktop which I barely ever see.
I presume you mean on Windows. Unfortunately this is pretty difficult. I'd like to make it happen so I'll look into it again at some point.
Creator here! Artpip started off as a side project to help me learn a bit more about art in general and has grown from there. It's been great fun making it and I have learnt A LOT about art history in the process. I can now recognise a lot of painters and have got pretty good at dating/categorising paintings (compared to before, at least!). Happy to answer any questions.
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A tangential thought while we're on the subject: NASA imagery can actually be used commercially and even sold for profit. The only caveats are that you can't use the likeness of any employee (e.g. astronauts) without their permission, you can't use anything with current employees in it, and the usage cannot implicitly or explicitly convey endorsement by NASA.[0] I've seen countless scummy stock photo sites selling NA…
Does anyone know of a similar app for NASA imagery? That'd be awesome.