◈mtknn @mtknn@cybre.space

reaction diffusion, with f = 0.022, k = 0.059

close up the variations in ink color are quite beautiful, and the way that it has been hatched gives it an almost crystalline appearance

undecided whether I actually like this one or not: as an image of a fox skull it's somewhat of a muddled mess, but the texture is amazing

a closeup of the texture

experimenting with multiple colors + textured fills (the red fox skull 3d scan is from scan the world: https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-red-fox-skull-50865)

a cleaner picture of it

seeing just how tiny triangles I can make this draw with a 0.1mm pen (answer: fairly tiny)

more plotter experiments: multiple colors

here you can see my 3d-printer-to-plotter in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W2Pct-HqBQ

I do a heuristic traveling salesman solution to try to minimize how often it picks up the pen (because z-movement is very slow) which results in very interesting pen trajectories as it tries to draw long sequences of edges without lifting the pen

this turned out well I think

every view of this sculpture just looks great in low-poly

isn't it a bit weird how, if you consider 'time' to be a dimension, the universe is much much thinner in the time dimension than it is spatially

like, 14 billion years just isn't that many: that's less than 300 million human lifetimes, and if you stacked all ~8 billion currently living people's avg. 70 year lives end to end, it would be 560 billion years, or 40 times the age of the universe

compare spatially: 8 billion * 2m = 16 billion meters, or not even 1/3rd to mars (closest point: 55 billion meters)

my current strategy is "rub it with a damp paper towel and hope for the best"

plotting with a fountain pen + water soluble ink and then getting the paper wet looks really cool but I'm not sure how to control the effect

turning my cheapo 3d printer into a 2d plotter was surprisingly easy; overly ambitious holiday cards here I come (no I'm not sending people holiday skulls I just like skulls as test images)

I hope that if I am ever remotely famous my wikipedia page will have trouble even telling what year I was born in

it turns out that when you get rid of the graphics all video games are secretly just a bunch of math (also the graphics are also just a bunch of different math)

What's really dispiriting (in programming) is to encounter something that seems really tedious or clunky, think "there has to be a better way that people smarter than me have discovered", and then find that no, there actually isn't a better way

I'm really digging elm but the recommended style guide has just *way too much whitespace*

that last one had an irritating gray frame that this fixes