Among my other projects this week, I took some time to bake this lemon blueberry tart. It was a delicious success.
Recipe courtesy of Sally’s Baking Addiction sallysbakingaddiction.com/lemon-bluebe...
A page filled with straight black lines. There is a grid of darker bands across it
Here is another solid page of lines—except this time the lines are drawn in short strokes instead of all the way across. This creates visible seams where the pen raised and lowered to the paper. #penplotter #plotterart #CreativeCoding
It's amazing how satisfying and powerful it feels to know even a little #sed and #awk. They are just great tools
Here’s one of my plots from yesterday. Boxes! With lines in them!
I’m still keeping things basic with this project. This is all stuff to build on later
#penplotter #plotterart #CreativeCoding #Sketchbook
Columns of black lines with thin spaces between them
Here’s one of my plots from today. Now we have short lines! #penplotter #plotterart #CreativeCoding #algorithmicart
For reference, I currently have an antique X230 from circa 2012. I don't know what the modern ones are like at all
What's a good laptop for running #linux these days? Are #thinkpad s still the way to go?
Among other things, it's looking like it's going to be interesting to document how many pens I go through XD
Availability of computers is not something I thought I'd ever have to worry about
On a different note, it's probably past time for me to think about getting a new computer. All my current hardware works for now, but it's got quite a few hours on it
The nice thing about #creativecoding is that any bug can be a feature if it looks cool.
I'm going to have some time to run the pen plotter today. I'm excited
Setting up a mail art kiosk at an art thing later this month. (more on that soon) Here it is in its current state. #p5 #nextdraw #mailart #generative
New woodcut print, fresh off the Korrex.
#printmaking
Looking at megafauna (for the Mesopotamian game) and I am being led by the whispering devil on my right shoulder down the path that leads to Megafauna Geese.
This way lies chaos.
As far as the code that generated this is concerned, it’s all clean straight lines. But the oils on my skin interfere with the ink.
One of the things that has always fascinated me about plotters is the way they bridge the abstraction of code and the physical world
I squeezed in another plot today. I was inspired by some of the glitches I was seeing earlier. I just pressed my hand against the paper before I ran the plot. #penplotter
Did you know that most colleges have been offering prompt engineering classes for years already? It’s in the English department and it’s called “technical writing”
I happen to like fountain pens as a hobby unto itself, and there the variety is nice. But in this use case it’s a lot closer to having a single correct answer
IMO there’s not a lot of fountain pens worth considering for use in a pen plotter besides the Platinum Preppy. It’s cheap and readily available. And if you throw an o-ring on there you can fill the entire thing with ink. I really can’t think of what more I would want.
This is today’s sketch. I’m still laying the groundwork of different techniques to work with. Now we have areas with different densities of lines! Also I’m still working out how to keep the paper steady and flat.
#SketchBook #penplotter
The first plot was pretty messy. I set the paper size wrong on the first attempt. On the second the pen was too high off the paper and things weren’t flat. There’s big gams all over the place.
I bought a new sketchbook. I’m going to have my plotter fill it with horizontal black lines now
#penplotter #codeart
It’s still the first thing I reach for when I need to throw a quick script together
Very nice! This makes me want to do more with my receipt printer…
Experimental animation.
Indian ink on found paper. #penplotter
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I've just published a new userscript that remembers the path of your cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, averaging and wearing them into the page, showing your browsing history over time
Install at greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5... or read more about it everest-pipkin.com#projects/des...
Excellent textural contrast in this one 👍
Emergent complexity sounds intimidating.
However, when you break it down, the concept is much easier to grasp.
This step-by-step guide walks you through the process of creating emergent complexity with code.
#penplotter #algorithmicart #art #genuary
penplotter.art/p/algorithmi...
