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mathling

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Retired software engineer. Now I write programs to make art.

Will natter on about tech in general with forays into linguistics, football, cooking, politics, climate, and random stuff.

Maker of jam. Petter of cats. Viewer of stars.

she/her or they/them

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Diablo

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I can't believe I waited so long to replace my dying lawn with this

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Spotted in the wild: a cybertruck painted rust-colored. Well, that's a time-saver, I guess.

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@bit101 yep. So neatly applied to the side panels...

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Halki, not quite settled on this lap

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#GenerativeArt interlude

Triangulation experiments

Stupid simple:
Draw a curve from hither to yon
Draw another curve from hither-ish to yon-ish
Interpolate N points on each curve
Draw a chain of triangles
Colour

#XQuery #SVG #CreativeCoding

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Interpolate additional paths in between and triangulate between each of them

Bit of a quilted look

Someone smarter that me could figure out how to set stroke widths and opacities to smooth this out perhaps

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With Delaunay triangulation

Which has now sent me down a rabbithole of reimplementing my Delaunay implementation because it is slower than I'd like and I want to avoid those cross-gap triangles as well

(Edit: add alt)

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Another day, another power outage. I don't blame PG&E this time: I blame the idjit with the oversized vehicle driving to fast for the road smashing into the power pole.

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Hmm... it appears someone had crashed into a power pole down the street, knocking out our power for lord knows how long. On the plus side, it means I am spared watching the trainwreck that is the Quakes as they stumble towards loss number nine ⚽

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"Spuds" as he came to be known. A mellow cat beyond belief. He started life on the streets, but was utterly inept at taking care of himself. He almost lost an eye, a leg, his tail. He did end up with a smashed jaw and a snaggle-tooth.

After taking him in for emergency care the third week in a row (for a "cat-engine interface" event, as the coworker who called us described it), we just adopted him.

No regrets.

For the record, this was my brother's idea

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Well, this is just great <sarcasm/>

Some private equity firm sent us a "check" with a low-ball cash offer for our house. It looks in all respects like an actual check, complete with the signature area on the back.

It all feels quite slimy, like an attempt to trick people into selling their house.

Nothing says "vibrant community" like scores of empty houses run as vacation rentals.

Gods, I hate PE and all its works

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Again for people (racists), complaining about falling birth rates:

The birth rate for women over 40 is not falling. The birth rate for women over 30 is not falling.

What's happening, is girls 15 to 17 are having fewer babies. Kids are having fewer kids.

Also, this is an interesting way of saying that "Teen pregnancy is down, due to sex education and contraception."

In 1991 25% of 15 year olds gave birth before they turned 21. That's bad. Now it's 6%. That's better.

https://npr.org/2023/01/08/1147737247/teen-pregnancy-rates-have-declined-significantly

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@mekkaokereke @Jennifer

Read an article about a poll. Headline: most American men think Trump respects women and vast majority of Republican men think so

I snorted my coffee, no lie

Well, if that is respect, it is any wonder women aren't interested in those guys?

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#GenerativeArt interlude

Supernova remnant

Noise + sheets of translucent triangular faces + perspective

Here I'm using a billowy fractal noise function, which creates the jagged appearance

#XQuery #SVG #CreativeCoding

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Smoothed out by prescaling

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Underground

Applying a sinc curve to fractal billow output

The magnificent bathymetry gradient, always good for mystery and wonder

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I am in awe of those NASA engineers

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth

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What is this nonsense? Implementing new rules in the middle of the season? ⚽

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interlude

The Mystery of the Great Icosahedron

Or: Why the heck do these websites have radically different ideas about the volume and circumradius of the great icosahedron?

Or: Why the heck is my test case failing?

https://mathling.com/art/20240421_great_icosahedron.html

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Halki sleeps. That bowl is a foot across. She is tiny.

If you saw this cat, you'd think she was a half-grown kitten. Friends, we have had this cat in our house for a year and a half since we scooped her away from the country park, and she has not grown a bit. (Well, she's plumped up, that's it.)

Look at her cute little toe beans! Look at her cute stubby tail! Look at her adorable flame points! Her silky fur! (Pfeh! Spit it out, it gets everywhere.)

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Well, here's a new one: I get an email from my doctor's office lecturing me for being a no-show while I'm sitting in the waiting room waiting and waiting

Despite the fact that I checked in both with their automated system and at the front desk, 15 minutes before my appoinment

Software quality crisis, what software quality crisis?

I did eventually get seen (an hour late), but I imagine I'm going to go through billing hell to remove a ghost "no show" charge. Any bets?

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