It was his fault! [Citation not needed] Richard Trevithick was an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, and his most significant contributions were the development of the first high-pressure steam engine and the first working railway steam locomotive. […] During further tests, Trevithick’s locomotive broke down three days later after passing over a …
The slide deck of Global Corp, inc.
Ok, I promise, last plotterTwitter co-opting wood burning on an axidraw for a while. Testing out these bad boys is getting expensivo. Just some good ol’ perlin-noised rings.
Enjoyed a lot this piece by Luke Burgis connecting Lean Startup methodology, “Omakase creators” and moral responsibility.
https://read.lukeburgis.com/p/why-we-need-more-omakase-creators?s=r
The extinct Yuki language of California used base-8 (octal), counting the spaces between fingers rather than the digits. 🤯
“Collatz’s branches”
Only now figuring out how to make the best of wood-burning multi-passes to control brightness levels.
haiku barada nikto
Check it out. After working earlier this year with Transformers, I gave GPT-NEO a try for Haiku generation. Not bad! Next step: add a rudder. Also, I think it would be cool to find a visualization method that would display branching and make the generation process interactive/iterative. …
Back to some axidraw powered pyrography.
“tree of life”
I wonder if there’s a collection of graphs like this one, telling the story of 2020.
I finally had the time to plot this onto a single, 130cm long banner. Doing it seamlessly is not impossible.