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An American robin. This was the first one I made, so maybe you can tell how the software is improving (I have some flight feather shape blending now.)
but it also shows how I’m changing the bird position and movements!

A male American goldfinch! With the secret debug screen

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

The result of a hand-carved stamp of a knotted line, using black ink on white paper.

Stamping something I coded

My gender does not recognize the United States

Circles with gradients, where the bright side is made up of points and dark side is made up of blue lines

Brighter light lines, and a buggy dark lines were it drew them randomly everywhere

Test using a picture of brick sidewalk, the stippling traces out the shape

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

Colorful painting of plane with a dark concentric circle on the top and bottom Light concentric circles on the left and right. The colors are in rainbow order.

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.”
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Comment in r/seattle from Mitch1musPrime. Post titled “Credit where credit is due | AG Nick Brown files suit w...” “Now that this has been officially filed, I need everyone to understand how much work the AG office has been putting into this since last week. They took dozens of interviews from medical professionals, mental health professionals, and most importantly, from families with trans kids who'd be impacted by the EO. The amount of time it took them to hold those interviews and turn them into the official declarations was an extraordinary undertaking. It was the value they placed on including stakeholders that caused the delay in getting g this filed. They deserve all the appreciative emails we can send them for doing this.”

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, Washington sue over Trump order targeting gender-affirming care The lawsuit accuses the president, and other members of the executive branch, of “attempts to dictate medical care by executive fiat.”

💚 Oregon
www.opb.org/article/2025...

Hexagons and circles that get lighter but following some a herringbone pattern

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

The trails of a bunch of particles moving around an invisible roadmap.

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!

Zoom in on a feather-ish thing, where a curved rachis has barbs branching off

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

Repeated semicircles overlapping

Another color palette and another angle of the same

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

Gradients make a 3d image of stairs

Day 22 of #genuary was gradients only

Or uh day 21 rather

One variation of green petals pulled to the center and then pushed apart by collision detection.

Another variation of the leaves being pulled to the center and then nudged apart with collision detection.

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.

We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests This is "We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests" by MediaTank on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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.

A bunch of 3 story concrete buildings. Ignore that they start repeating the last row.

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

Squares arranged at little angles so they look a little less blocky

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.

A few of a lot of steps from the bottom with some interesting landings.

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.

A lot of lines, parallel or nearly parallel, and at a 30 degree angle, so it’s almost 3d if you stare at it too long

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.