Forrest O.

Some day one of these slop diagrams won't give itself away with melting dream writing, but not yet.

Icosahedron globe strip showing North and South America, now with lakes visible.

ObservableHQ/d3 code showing how to make lake "holes" in the land shapes.

Fixed!
The idea: concat the lakes path to the land path, and use fill-rule: evenodd.
Found lakes geojson via @nvkelso/natural-earth-vector.
observablehq.com/@forresto/or...

Icosahedron globe strip showing North and South America, now with lakes visible.

ObservableHQ/d3 code showing how to make lake "holes" in the land shapes.

Fixed!
The idea: concat the lakes path to the land path, and use fill-rule: evenodd.
Found lakes geojson via @nvkelso/natural-earth-vector.
observablehq.com/@forresto/or...

12x12 multiplication table as packed circles, decomposed to primes

I want to port my Observable notebooks to my own site. There are some fun experiments in there, and it would be nice to have that notebook authoring flow in my own space.
observablehq.com/@forresto/mu...

Icosahedral globe for pen plotting / Forrest O. | Observable Based on a version of Tomoko Fuse's 5-peice modular origami icosahedron. Playing with new big pen plotter at the work space. ... Icosahedral projections are available from d3-geo-polygon, along with other polyhedral projections. Play zone See @visionscarto/world-atlas-topojson

I faked them with a Noun Project icon on this project. 🙈 observablehq.com/@forresto/or...

I'm surprised there are no issues matching "lake" on that repo. Oh, and the repo is archived. Do any map heads know if there is an alternative with lakes?

GitHub - topojson/world-atlas: Pre-built TopoJSON from Natural Earth. Pre-built TopoJSON from Natural Earth. Contribute to topojson/world-atlas development by creating an account on GitHub.

cc topojson/world-atlas @observablehq.com
github.com/topojson/wor...

(aside, I'd like to share these on the family TV, but YouTube won't cast shorts. It's like... enforced solitary consumption.)

A huge wasp touches down in our backyard. YouTube

I really like Wes Hargis' series of illustrated stories of feral childhood in the 1970s.
youtube.com/shorts/8D4Fx...

Yeah... my feeds are very anti.

Maybe it's cheating to animate an optical illusion like this.
I like the Cuttle version, to dial in the parameters and find where the illusion is lost or found.

rotating pips

I made it wavy by rotating the small squares. Catnip for parametric design... you can animate the parameters here: cuttle.xyz/@forresto/Ti...
#CuttleXYZ

Still a daily player with my fam chat. 😃
I'm wondering if you are saving all the scores in the db, or just the winning one. It could be interesting to have a view that sorts "solutions" by first play, second play...

that's clearly a naïve baby chick (as opposed to a more jaded one)

Raukku is such a charming fellow. 🕊️

Wes Cook and the Centralia McDonald's Mural A personal story about discovering a mural in a McDonald's, an unknown artist named Wes Cook, saving the mural, and a conference talk about the whole thing.

over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.)

finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk.

enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...

Helsinki transport had a phase last year where they demanded ID to make sure you weren't using someone else's ticket / phone. Felt wrong, but I didn't look up if it was legal.

Muppet Elmo with arms raised to orange column of light from Hakaniemi sunrise.

Thursday sky was doing some kind of optical effect with the sunrise, and @jhilden.bsky.social got this picture, which I had to enhance with fuego Elmo.

Seems like that would be comms 101, but maybe the kids are like who?

Hi! Alt CAD blue sky +1

Have they ever heard of the Streisand effect???

> 🏆 First high score of the day!
Does this mean the previous high score shown was somebody camping on the seed? Is the day UTC or device time?

@val.town speaks deno and SQLite 🤔

Neat, I wonder about a good way for a group to share such a view.

This is a reminder that every diagram from my book Projective Geometric Algebra Illuminated is available on Wikimedia Commons under the CC-BY-4.0 license. They can be freely used in slides, papers, books, Wikipedia articles, etc., with proper attribution.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Er...

The Mind-Bending Math Behind Spot It!, the Beloved Family Card Game The simple matching game has some deceptively complex mathematics behind the scenes

I found Projective Geometries by wondering how the card game Spot It! works.
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

They also don't have video compression but...

I see your blocks but can I interest you in blocks AND wires?

"absolutely changed my life over the past 48 hours"