Dramp
@drpagano.bsky.social
Engineering Design educator making stuff in his free time. Graphics are generated using Python.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Happening right now, ICE arrests a peaceful citizen from the crowd. "I have done nothing wrong! I am a United States Citizen. [My name is] Matthew James Obediah Allen"
Is anyone else noticing an uptick in seemingly fake accounts this week? I suddenly have 11 new "followers" but haven't posted anything attention worthy in months. Seems very suspicious.
U Michigan spent nearly a million dollars paying private spies to follow and harass its own students. The university is in crisis.
Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · last yr.This is insane
Man I hate the phrase "Vibe coding" The least you can do is be honest with yourself.
First wood carving from my upgraded plotter! Results aren't outstanding, but it is a very solid first effort
Modified my cross-hatch shading algorithm to work with random pattern fills! On the left I'm using interactions between sin waves for shading, the right shows a traditional cross-hatching method. This model of The Veiled Woman by Corradini in the Louvre is from ScanTheWorld (mmf.io/o/6479)
Thinking about making some plotter upgrades to improve rigidity and make the thing a bit more viable as a lightweight CNC router. #penplotter
I earned my MS studying origami mechanisms and now that I have a laser module attached to my plotter I can continue some of the work I was doing back then! Precision fabrication is still a major challenge, but this Kresling Tower structure made from PET and parachute nylon worked pretty well.
Got the itch to work on a laser cutter mode for my plotter using this cheapo 5.5W laser module. Here's the first cut! I tried to compensate laser power for feed rate, but looks like I went too far.
Exploring some different ways to process 3D models into line art. Here I'm slicing the model with multiple sets of parallel planes to find the intersections. By rotating the basis vectors we get some cool fringing effects. #CreativeCoding #Python #TechnicalArt #LineArt
Prototyping and troubleshooting prints from my procedural terrain code! I'm not exactly sure why the fill didn't finish, but I'm still very happy with how this looks. #PlotterArt #PenPlotter #LineArt #CreativeCoding #AlgorithmicArt #ProceduralArt #Python Inspired by wertn.com/2020/09/ella-webb/
Fake mountaineering plans for fake mountains #95 #PlotterArt #LineArt #AlgorithmicArt #GenerativeArt #Python
Trying some more weird stuff involving manipulating STL data before translating it to SVG (and plotter gcode). The background is also an STL model to test that I am tweaking things correctly on a per-model basis.
These curves use an L-system inspired method like Hilbert & Peano space-filling curves. From the perspective of the pen, the line can go straight, or turn CW/CCW - with instructions encoded in a text string like "-2 +2 F1 +3 -1..." etc. The resulting line is then offset and duplicated. #PenPlotter
My neighborhood scooter kid was riding without handlebars, just holding onto the stick part! After confirming that it wasn't by choice and that he wanted a repair, I whipped up a replacement using a PVC pipe and some printed TPU grips. He assured me he, "doesn't do jumps" and he'd be careful!
Sequential bezier curves with control points based on the previously drawn curve
