jeffpalmer

jeffpalmer, 9 months ago to Artist

👋 Hi! I'm very excited/relieved to share my updated portfolio website. It includes some new projects, including my 'Digital Organics' series with limited edition prints available for purchase.

Also, discover the 'Vistas' series, exploring the unease of venturing into unknown territories.

See more at https://jpalmer.art! 🙏

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Photograph of a pen plot titled 'Twisted' in blue ink on light cream paper. There is an orange fountain pen open at the bottom of the frame. The plotted artwork is an abstract geometrical fold, resembling a twisted tube, bending from the upper left to the lower right.
An untitled work from the series 'Vistas' that depicts an abstract landscape in blues, greens, and purples. It appears to be a cave that recedes into darkness.

jeffpalmer, 7 months ago to genart

Work continues on this new project. Experimenting with animation, but the static images can also be interesting.

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jeffpalmer, 10 months ago to genart

Recently I've been experimenting with volumetric rendering of smoke and clouds. I've been learning a ton of things about physically based rendering, which I had never really played around with until now. Honestly, I barely know what I'm doing, but I'm enjoying the learning process.

More to come! 🔥🚀

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jeffpalmer, 10 months ago to genart

This morning I was once again very happy to review a final version of a print for a customer. I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

This is a 40"x50" Chromaluxe aluminum dye sublimation print of a work I created based on the concept of statistical populations. Unsurprisingly (?) the work is titled "Population II".

Thanks so much to everyone at Hanson Digital in San Francisco for their help! 🙏

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jeffpalmer, 5 months ago to genart

This is a bit of a cheat, as my in-progress project is based on animated particles, but given that today is New Year's Day, this is what I'm going with. 😅🙏

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jeffpalmer, 6 months ago to random

Time to sign up for the Plotter Postcard Exchange for this year. Looking forward to it! 🎉

https://buttondown.email/ptpx/archive/ptpx-2023-sign-up-is-open/

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jeffpalmer, 6 months ago to genart

One thing I've realized is that when I'm working on an animated generative work, I have a tendency to sit at my desk and watch it for long stretches of time. Makes it a little challenging to get things done. 😅

It's also a PITA to try to export video on a regular basis, so I end up just posting screenshots from several minutes into the animation, which feels a little underwhelming. "It's cool! Trust me." 😝

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jeffpalmer, 5 months ago to random

Finally! finished my Plotter Postcard Exchange plots! 🎉

This year I decided to try something different. I resurrected an older project that already had a UI to generate 4x5 postcards, which I then plotted using a Rotring Isograph 0.2mm and hand-colored with Ohuhu markers.

I'm pretty happy with the result, and I'm thinking that I might try this again but with larger images and finer markers.

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Abstract geometric rectangles plotted in black ink and then colored with yellow and shades of blue.
Abstract geometric rectangles plotted in black ink and then colored with gray and shades blue.
Abstract geometric rectangles plotted in black ink and then colored with green, gray, and shades of blue.

jeffpalmer, 11 months ago to genart

Experimenting…

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jeffpalmer, 11 months ago to random

Why in the world did I wait so long to try out @thi.ng/expose? It takes any value you specify in your code and makes it available as a global in the JavaScript console. Makes iteration a lot faster, especially since I create structures with tons of small functions that don't show anything when logged and yet can be interactively called in the console. So good.

@toxi This is super simple and so helpful. Thanks again! 🙏

jeffpalmer, 8 months ago to genart

Returning to an old favorite as part of this series of experiments. This is my plotter-based version of “Subdivisions.”

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jeffpalmer, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

I decided to start experimenting with paint and plotting. I started with watercolor, and I honestly have no idea what I’m doing. 😅

The attached images are a random test based on a previous plot, and a start on one of my Subdivisions images. I need to keep experimenting, but it seems like an interesting direction.

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jeffpalmer, 7 months ago to genart

Whenever I start a new project I have a ton of ideas that I want to experiment with to see what's interesting, how an algorithm can coexist with other complementary algorithms, etc.

However, I almost never make it through the first one or two ideas on my list. As soon as I have working code for the first idea, I can't help but tinker with it, and then that first idea becomes like 20+ more. 😅 I have a large TODO pile, lol.

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jeffpalmer, 7 months ago to genart

Spent part of today working on a new project. Already seeing some promising outcomes from the core algorithm/idea. Looking forward to exploring this more next week. 🤞🏻

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jeffpalmer, 8 months ago to random

Lately I've been painting and trying to reawaken the part of my brain that makes artwork with my hands not my keyboard. Some thoughts:

1. I had forgotten just how zen doing things with my hands is compared to writing code. For example, I can easily listen to an audiobook while painting, which I could never do while coding. That's nice.

2. Having to commit to a decision that doesn't have an undo is liberating. I'm forging a path through my decisions, whatever the outcome. I like it. 😅🎉

jeffpalmer, 7 months ago to genart

Finally got around to trying out the new fibers feature in thi.ng by @toxi alongside my rendering tools. They're very cool! 🔥 The ability to put small bits of logic into a function and then set it free is pretty great.

These static images don't really do this justice. This is animated with each strand in its own fiber running at a buttery smooth 60fps. I usually have a bunch of logic that's dedicated to scaffolding agent interactions I'm hoping I can remove/reduce. 🎉🙏

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Teal and light red/pink strands looping around in large and small curves.

jeffpalmer, 8 months ago to random

I swear every time I use a new programming language, the process of trying to grok the environment management tooling and configuration files makes me want to stab myself. These things seem easy once you have internalized them, but holy crap getting there can be painful.

In today's episode, I try to rationalize what's necessary to create a productive python development environment. I feel like I'm 95% of the way there, but who knows? Not me, lol. 🤞🏻

jeffpalmer, 7 months ago to random

Status: Currently performing unnatural acts in service of the Javascript performance gods.

Specifically, I just converted all of my code to use an object pool (a giant array of floats) to avoid (almost) all allocation in my rendering loop, and let me tell you, my per-frame time went from ~12-14ms to about 0.75ms. 🎉

Curse you, Garbage Collection! 😝

jeffpalmer, 6 months ago to genart

Several still images from my upcoming animated project titled "We Dreamt in the Sun."

Have a great weekend, folks! 👋

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jeffpalmer, 9 months ago to genart

Lately I've been working on improving my portfolio website, which has caused me to dig into a lot of projects that were explored but never released for one reason or another.

I came across this set of experiments yesterday, and I'm still finding them interesting in terms of their subtle forms and colors. Putting it into the "for later" pile to revisit. Seems like it might be a good fit for GLSL/#WebGL.

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jeffpalmer, 2 months ago to Artist

👋 I’ve been relatively quiet here lately because I’ve been spending a decent amount of time AFK IRL. Specifically I’ve been taking a watercolor painting course at my local college, and it’s been a blast. I’m still learning and experimenting, but I’m looking forward to finding ways to use this in my work going forward.

Here’s a little experiment I did a couple of days ago (because I ❤️ typography).

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jeffpalmer, 2 months ago to genart

Great article from @larswander on adding text metadata to PNGs, which is something that I've needed for a long time in my generative art practice. Thank you! 🙏

https://larswander.com/writing/archiving-generative-work/

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jeffpalmer, 7 months ago to genart

Have I mentioned that my favorite color is orange? 🧡

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jeffpalmer, 4 months ago to art

This is probably a very well-known watercolor resource, but since I'm new to this medium, I thought I'd share in case anyone else was in my shoes.

In fact, this is so good it makes me want to create an archive version on my computer that's searchable, etc. 😅

https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/water.html

If you know of any other similar watercolor resources, please share! 🙏

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