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Day 16 of #genuary2025: “Generative palette.”

I've never had to think about generating pleasing colour palettes consistently, so my first attempts were epic failures. But this one is pretty great I think. Almost no eye sores.

#genuary

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Day 11 of #genuary2025: “Impossible day - Try to do something that feels impossible for you to do. Maybe it is impossible. Maybe it’s too ambitious. Maybe it’s something you know nothing about how to accomplish.

3D printing with clay is surprisingly idiosyncratic. Generating custom—and possibly non-planar—#gcode for it always seemed like the dream. It has become a reality, and now I can generate Gcode using my 2D #svg drawing toolkit.

This is a stylized preview render with depth of field of a Gcode toolpath. It's a series of 2D shapes evaluated in 3D space, projected in a 3D isometric space, and rendered in 2D svg.

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Day 10 of #genuary2025: “You can only use TAU in your code, no other number allowed.”

From the top left to the bottom right, the individual grid tiles represent the numbers of TAU up to 142 decimal places. For 0 (and the decimal separator), a dot is drawn; for 1, just one line in every colour; for 2, two lines, etc.

#genuary #svg

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