Orbits of Mercury, Venus, Mars & Jupiter (not to scale).
Computed with PyEphem as they would appear from Earth – north ecliptic pole.
Gelly rolls on rugged black paper with axidraw.
About: jamez
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Sensawunda!
Two perpendicular thoughts: 1) I am amazed how easy it still is for a large program (like Blender or Firefox) to fail to compile on a modern, common distro. A large list of dependencies greatly increases the chances of compile-time mishaps and makes the whole process resemble surgery. 2) I am amazed at how easy …
A very Escherian portrait of john_fisherman. Always a pleasure to be looking through the man.
Still one of my favorite otherworldly videos: Huygens descent onto Titan, by Erich Karkoschka.
I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.
Axidraw was made for this
“Ode to the Turtle”. Synthesized handwriting plotted by axidraw. Text by Seymour Papert. So many of us started programming with Logo Language…
Future attire as envisioned in a 1982 CompuServe ad.
Magnetic fields. Axidraw with foil quill pen + watercolor. I hadn’t touched a brush in 20 years…
Glitchy AF – because perfection is 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔.
Trying something new, plotting a panorama of my fav city, Lisboa. Early draft, but promising.
