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mathling

@mathling@mastodon.social

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

RSS feed: https://mathling.com/art-rss.xml

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mathling, to random
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Oh my word, the oregano is going bonkers this year. It is starting to take over the greenhouse. This is just a small fraction that was starting to block the doors.

Listen, if you're near Cupertino and want some for all your culinary or olfactory purposes, lemme know

mathling,
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@elliots I was planning on trying done oregano pesto. We'll see how it goes. You can dry it out on a low oven and grind it up too.

mathling, to photography
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mathling, to genart
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#GenerativeArt interlude

One day in 10000BC, deep in the cave
A wee bit of art forgery

A little experiment with Symbola glyphs and path simplification

#XQuery #SVG

mathling, to random
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Arrgggh Wayfair, you apparently do NOT have just what I need. I ordered this thing over a month ago, and every week I look it shifts to an ETA of a week hence. I don't think I'm every going to see it. Can't even get customer support to respond.

SIGH 1 star, for old times' sake

mathling,
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Oh, finally customer support responds.
They keep talking about shipping a "replacement" for "free". Damn right for free, I already paid for this and you never shipped it,

Replacement my ass

mathling, to photography
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Dusty enjoys his afternoon "stroll" in the garden. Having scouted all the places he's ever seen a lizard, he rests near the catmint. He only goes out on supervised walks, but he does so love them.

mathling, to random
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Hmmm.... Here's something; another species of dictionary spam kinda

I get a lot of bots hitting my website. A lot. I shut out a lot of them (esp. SEO and AI scrapers) and some of them even honour my rate controls and refusals but today I'm seeing a swarm of what I assume are bot requests with the user agent listed as various random letters of the alphabet. The letters seem to be working together as they sweep through various directories.

Anyone seen this or knows what it is?

mathling, to genart
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interlude

I announced the new version of my art code yesterday, and a new slew of solid geometry stuff and hooks to my art shell was part of it. So here's a little bonus treat made with these things:

"large red fish fills portland dodecahedron at center"

mathling, to genart
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#GenerativeArt interlude

New release of my art code libraries

Implementations of the Archimedean solids plus a few other fun ones and an integrated better 3D rendering of them. Pens. Hobby curves.

There's also a lot of future-looking infrastructure here (see: "maker functions" in the release notes), a fair amount of clean up, performance, etc. Click the "browse" link for detailed release notes.

https://www.mathling.com/

#XQuery #XSL #SVG

mathling, to random
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From somewhere off in the distance, steel drum music is drifting in on the warm breeze, and I am here for those relaxing summery vibes

mathling, to photography
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mathling, to photography
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"Aren't I the cutest ever?"

mathling, to random
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My most excellent children came over for Mother's Day and made me fresh pasta and lemon tiramisu

I think I raised 'em right

mathling, to photography
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mathling, to photography
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Diablo

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

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

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

mathling, to photography
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Halki, not quite settled on this lap

mekkaokereke, to random
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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

mathling,
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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?

mathling, to genart
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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

mathling,
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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

mathling,
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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

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