I built a thing! (Original design by Jeff Sanders, the Brick Bending master) 630 pieces. 3 hours. A few vaguely illegal building techniques. #lego

I'm trying out a new technique where I first draw patterns on paper using the #penplotter, and then laser cut different patterns and stack the layers together. The goal is for the drawn lines to continue seamlessly from layer to layer. Alignment isn't quite there yet, but it's looking intriguing

I totally fell off the wagon, but one final day to round out the month. #genuary Day 19. Op art #genuary2025 #genuary19 #axidraw #penplotter

#genuary Day 16. Generative palette Very simple design, but I got to try out some new Spectrum Noir Metallic pens. They're bright, clean, and uniform. Very nice to work with. #genuary2025 #genuary16 #axidraw #penplotter

#genuary Day 15. Design a rug Truchet tiles! (The middle silver lines are actually about 0.5mm misaligned, but it weirdly adds a bit of a 3D effect that I kind of like.) #genuary2025 #genuary15 #axidraw #penplotter

Day 14 of #genuary. Black and White This prompt reminded me of a chessboard so I did a knight's tour on a 16x16 board. (It still boggles my mind that the algorithm for finding a knight's tour is so simple.) #genuary2025 #genuary14 #axidraw #penplotter

#genuary Day 13. Nothing but Triangles #genuary2025 #genuary13 #axidraw

#genuary Day 12. Subdivisions A maze within a maze within a maze within a maze. Fractal maze! (Travel from one star to the other) #genuary2025 #genuary12 #axidraw

Day 11 of #genuary. Impossible A-maze-ing! Can you make it from one circle to the other? Not exactly impossible, but tricky to solve if you're just looking at it. Had fun writing maze code and playing around with styles. #genuary2025 #genuary11 #axidraw

#genuary Day 10. Nothing but TAU Tau means circles. In this case two sets of nested circles, and the moire pattern produced where they overlap. #genuary2025 #genuary10 #axidraw

#genuary Day 9. Textiles. Simple weave pattern, but got to try out some new metallic pens that look really nice together. #genuary2025 #genuary9 #axidraw

Catching up on #genuary. Day 8. Make a million. This drawing has 1,048,575 squares. The pattern doubles 19 times. ... Okay, not really. After 9 doublings my pen was just layering more and more ink. Making a million of something physical is tricky! #genuary2025 #genuary8 #axidraw

Catching up on #genuary. Day 7. Weird software. For this one I created circuits using Kicad and freerouting. At first I was planning on doing something really complicated but I ran into limitations in freerouting so I went with something simple instead. #genuary2025 #genuary7 #axidraw

Day 6 of #genuary. Primitive (shapes) landscape aka... so many rectangles #genuary2025 #genuary6 #axidraw

Day 5 of #genuary. Isometric I start with a cube, then for each cube randomly either draw it, skip it, or subdivide it into 8 smaller cubes and recurse. Ended up looking quite cool. #genuary2025 #genuary5 #axidraw

Day 4 of #genuary. Black on black For this prompt I tried creating a stipple image of the moon using black ink on black paper, but it didn't really work. Too low contrast to actually see the image. So, instead I did a second image using silver ink. #genuary2025 #genuary4 #axidraw

I'm going to try and do some portion of #genuary (a set of prompts to make procedural art). Here's day 2. Layers upon layers upon layers. #genuary2025 #genuary2 #axidraw

New axidraw plots for the new year

I love doing quick secret projects with the AxiDraw.

Getting back in the habit of posting art/math/code/random stuff. I wanted to create sunflower style patterns with growth based on the golden angle. I first used the standard sqrt(n) for the radius, but I found that n^2 actually looked a lot cooler.