Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard@mastodon.social
Makes art and stuff, used to run http://www.metafilter.com. email at josh@joshmillard.com
Joined Nov 2016
Crow in Profile, stained glass, 11"x12". Built this over the last few days, made a whole step-by-step process thread over on the birb site if you want to see the details.
Back to watercolor the last couple days, doing a series based on the offset squares stuff I've been messing with lately. I, II, III, IV...
Got up to some related Offset Squares nonsense in python just now, birb site thread for details: https://twitter.com/joshmillard/status/1540161357139521536
New stuff, up on my store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/CortexCraftworks
Some more recent work, continuing to play with variations on iterative square sequences.
bunch of geometry/fractal noodling over on birbsite this afternoon:
New blog post about some recent watercolor and plotter work and the underlying ad hoc fractal construction behind it:
And then a plotter+pencil -> watercolor experiment with the same original form.
The piece with just the blue in is the more pleasant to look at; the one with the red layer in is more interesting to me compositionally. Want to explore both directions some more.
Some plotter experiments yesterday, starting from an idea of randomized systematic embeddings of trios of rectangles inside larger rectangles and then just sort of wilding out in various ways.
some cube variations (mostly marker, one pencil) from earlier before I got sick to my stomach about SCOTUS horseshit and quit for the day
Mapped out all the two digit transitions into the 5-cycle. Neat little features of the distribution of states; 3+ digits will introduce some more complicated issues it seems like in how to group classes of equivalent numbers together but I think there’s some hints here at the sort of shape of those equivalence classes.
Visiting MIL, doing some literal back of the envelope calculations while they’re discussing a textile project. Wanted to see the three digit 495 result myself, and then see what emerged for five digits, which is…a loop! I haven’t read up any more on Kaprekar results yet though I saw at a glance that this and a lot of other results have already been mapped out.
Crossing the streams: here's my favorite MetaFilter comment this morning about the birb site situation: https://www.metafilter.com/195122/the-fail-whale-could-not-be-reached-for-comment#8239225
Makes art and stuff, used to run http://www.metafilter.com. email at josh@joshmillard.com
Joined Nov 2016
