I’ve been slowly building a system for drawing birds for a passion project field guide of MIT’s avian wildlife. Here’s a thread of who I have so far: chimney swifts!

Remember the bird projections— @thisxorthat.bsky.social show us how they make BIRD VISUALS

Then we did chill hang out and show eachother things on the projector. This is @thisxorthat.bsky.social showing us birds, keep this in mind as it will come back later in the thread

Stamping something I coded

My gender does not recognize the United States

Some tests with generating vector stippling based on an input image

Days 1-4 of #genuary2025 work by Future Sketches members @thisxorthat.bsky.social, me, and PI @zachlieberman.bsky.social #genuary is a challenge for the month of January to make generative art every day with a prompt! Read more at genuary.art Music by me

I just registered for the Mathematical Association of America Golden Section’s region meeting at Mission College in Santa Clara on February 22. I will be showing three of my paintings there including this piece that I named “Complex Color Wheel.” 1/3

Comment in r/Seattle detailing why it took a few more days for the Washington AG to file the suit wrt the trans EO. A huge thank you to all the people in the AGs office that made this happen.

💚 Oregon www.opb.org/article/2025...

Day 31 of #genuary was pixel sorting, but here’s weird ordered dithering instead

So close. Day 30 of #genuary was abstract maps. I loaded some sidewalk and street info and threw some particles on it to see what would happen. Can you tell where it’s from?

Day 29 was grid-based design, so digging out the variable-sized tiler. It has some fun interaction with the automatic interpolation too.

Day 28 of #genuary was infinite scroll (credit @fractalkitty.com !), which made me think about adding a new integration between my system and the MIDI controller I use for shows. I didn’t end up making the dials scroll infinitely, but I did make them start glowing when I reference them in the code!

Day 27 of #genuary was make something with no randomness or trig, so started working on using the panicle system as a feather generator.

Day 26 of #genuary was symmetry and I dug up some of my favorites from the kaleido system (I use a lot for livecoding).

Day 22 of #genuary was gradients only

Day 23 of #genuary was implementing collision detection. Added it to my polygonatum system, which has some other physics already. The shapes nudge each other apart, but there are too many so they overlap, which I think looks cool.

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

Day 25 of #genuary was just one line, so taking one of the peregrines from a few weeks ago and letting it fly around on its own.

Day 23 of #genuary was inspired by brutalism so here are some concrete buildings.

Day 24 of #genuary was a geometric pattern

Day 16 was generative palette. I have a little shader that makes a palette I use a lot, so I pushed it in weird directions. #genuary

Help how do I deal with all the salt tracked in from Boston’s method of making winter less slippery. My experience from Sweden is useless because they use small rocks there, which hurt to step on but don’t dissolve and become weird textures on my floor.

Day 20 of #genuary is generative architecture and I wrote something to make steps based on some I saw last time I was in San Francisco.

Day 19 of #genuary is op art!

Doomscrolled today but then the feed told me about Grand Theft Hamlet, which happened to be screening in my city tonight and so I went and saw it and laughed and cried with a bunch of folks in a theater and it was good.

Night Watch Oil on Canvas 26×44″ 66×112 cm 2023 Original & prints available earthskyart.ca/shop #art #painting

Doodle No. 20
Tribert’s Network
 Tribert got a new antenna for his network in hopes of picking up owls. So far, so good. 
 2.7” by 2.7”
Prismacolor black ink and Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils on Stonehenge 250 GSM 100% cotton paper
Happy Sunday. Stay connected. 
#mathart #network #graph

Day 18 of #genuary is: what does wind look like. Here’s one loosely based on how hawks use updrafts to gain altitude so they can glide around.

Finally trying out Apple Intelligence on my loved ones! Wow!

Helpful reminder of how to get the first element of an iterator in Rust: tell the element that no one’s first(), and you’re next(). Follow for more helpful tips that are useful for many people and not just for me!

Day 15 of #genuary is making a rug.

Day 14 of #genuary is black and white

Day 13 of #genuary is triangles

What happens if pi=4? For this sketch I used the Taylor series expansion to approximate the sin and cos functions with pi=4. S/N: 2025.017 #genuary2025 #genuary17 #genuary #dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

Day 12 of #genuary is subdivisions. Updated my go-to sketch for subdividing to make it weird.

A grid of selected plots from November and December 2024. The drawings were created with the same Processing program / algorithm I have been using and refining since 2018, still amazed by the great variety of outputs.

6 and & look weirdly similar in some fonts

Day 11 is impossible day, so I made smoother interpolations between file updates which, when stacked on top of the other features, is kinda weird to reason about. Here’s a demo of it working! Carefully avoiding the cases where it doesn’t.

Day 10 of #genuary was to only use TAU and no other numbers. I got some of my favorite outputs, from updating day 3’s numbers.

Day 9 of #genuary was public transportation pattern, so this one’s vaguely based on a distant memory of some train seats in Sapporo.

Day 8, was drawing a million things! This is drawing around a million samples of shapes.

A little busy for day 7, but here’s an old project of computer art made with google spreadsheets. #genuary

Day 6 was creating a landscape with geometric primitives. #genuary

Day 5 was isometric. #genuary

Ack behind on posting these here. Day 4 of #genuary was black on black.

#genuary7 „Use software that is not intended to create art or images.“ Did you know that there's tons of one-color videos like "4 Hours of Red" on YouTube? And that you can control browser windows using AppleScript? And that none of these things are intended to create art? #genuary2025 #genuary

#GENUARY2025 DAY 7: Unintended Software Art I made a fractal fern in OBS, common streaming software #genuary #genuary7 #generative #genartclub

Day 3 of genuary is 42 lines of code. For my “code” I’m using the yaml config file of one of my rust systems. The system draws a tree by evaluating a grammar with the added fun of randomly pruning branches and variables that can be updated as it recurses. Please enjoy the 3fps #genuary #genuary2025