Finally time to quit twitter, I'm out. Giving social media a break except...
๐ฅ YouTube
๐ Newsletter
๐ฌ Old fashioned post
...it was fun right up until the very end bit, love you all โค๏ธ
Needed to do some debugging on the final part of my 70s Pop project, as it was breaking my brain. Thought some people may find it interesting (I know I did).
At it once more with Uni-ball Signo pens on Fabriano Black Black paper. 4 layers: 1st silver, 2nd metallic green, then purple glitter over green (1st pic), blue glitter over purple (2nd pic). Final multichromatic pearlescent plot shimmers all the colours. #plottertwitter#axidraw
Digging thru the archives, this image was created 28 years ago in 1994. It was called genetic art at the time. Each form described by a 26 character long hexadecimal string ("hash"/"token") which was its DNA, different parts described different aspects of its appearance...
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I know I've been doing this for a long time so I shouldn't be surprised, but it's still kind of magical that I didn't design these, I designed the code that designed these.
I had the idea and shaped it but seeing them manifested physically is still a beautiful delight.
Oh, and as it's "Pen Plotter Hidden-Line Removal Week" (maybe), I put all the source code for my hidden-line removal stress-test tool on @fx_hash_ onto GitHub. Because I figured it'd be useful to people who like digging into genart code.
github.com/revdancatt/HLRโฆ
Holy Moly people! That took like, 12 minutes or something to sell out?? Just like old times, lol!
Here' the last 12. Going to go catch up with what everyone got now!
Hello! The last three weeks have been weirdly weird and stressfully stressful, and I've all but dropped off twitter, IG, facebook, email, Discord, Slack, etc. to make space for mental wellness.
Feeling a bit more with it this week, so I thought I'd start with a "hello" ๐