I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio
Forrest O.
@forresto.bsky.social
https://forresto.com/ (projects) https://cuttle.xyz/@forresto (parametric CAD for makers)
I can't look away from these lost interfaces. I want to document them carefully and return them to the commons before they disappear: to empower artists, preserve public knowledge, and keep capable hardware out of landfills.
It's a 40 second explainer about perfect shuffles. www.forresto.com/perfect-shuf...
I was writing a Polish friend (in Poland) and Gmail offered to "polish" my writing, which made my brain record scratch for a moment.
Does @standard.site require more from a server than a static site? I like that an RSS feed can be built as a static file.
Found a nice Sudoku algorithm, and made it Cuttle-ified, which means arbitrary glyphs and seeded random. I solved this one and it took a while for the emoji to click, but it was fun doodling. cuttle.xyz/@forresto/Su... #CuttleXYZ #puzzle
any polyrhythmic nerd rock duos need a parametric animated music video? #CuttleXYZ
This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪
Biggie Smalls vs Thomas the tank engine
Jonatan Hildén@jhilden.bsky.social · 3mo agoBattles Atlas Suzanne Vega Solitude standing Eno & Cale Lay my love Pärt (Spivakov & Bezrodny) Spiegel im Spiegel Pantha du Prince Walden 2 Arthur Russell That’s us/Wild combination Squarepusher Iambic 9 Poetry Mouse on Mars Albion Rose Alva Noto Xerrox Monophaser 2 T. Bergman En spelmans jordafärd
I have a "Shadow" modifier in Cuttle that can do pseudo-3D. Here's a growing fractal vase, Sierpinski curve. #CuttleXYZ
Click around there. 😎 I made one of the "T" sketches, a port of my animated Sierpiński curve. Impressed with the other sketches, music, and background effects. Good company.
pvh@pvh.ca · 3mo agoInk & Switch is ten years old this month! We made you a card to celebrate. inkandswitch.com
Cooking vid algo showed me someone making garlic powder... by toasting and grinding the skins. I know better than to reply. But it's such a weirdly specific confident wrongness, and doesn't seem to be intentional ragebait.
Hey, do you know string instrument teachers or have a beginner student at home? What if the material given to beginner music students for home practice were something that facilitates intuition and gives immediate feedback instead of being just ink on paper? #violin #viola #musiced #musicteaching
Found a nice way to modify a QR Code that makes it friendlier for inlay, pen plot, laser score, 3D print...
Fixed! The idea: concat the lakes path to the land path, and use fill-rule: evenodd. Found lakes geojson via @nvkelso/natural-earth-vector. observablehq.com/@forresto/or...
I want to port my Observable notebooks to my own site. There are some fun experiments in there, and it would be nice to have that notebook authoring flow in my own space. observablehq.com/@forresto/mu...
I really like Wes Hargis' series of illustrated stories of feral childhood in the 1970s. youtube.com/shorts/8D4Fx...
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A huge wasp touches down in our backyard.
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I made it wavy by rotating the small squares. Catnip for parametric design... you can animate the parameters here: cuttle.xyz/@forresto/Ti... #CuttleXYZ
Tile Wall (optical illusion)
After Skye Blue Café Wall Illusion credited to Victoria Skye.
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Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker!
over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.) finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk. enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...
Wes Cook and the Centralia McDonald's Mural
A personal story about discovering a mural in a McDonald's, an unknown artist named Wes Cook, saving the mural, and a conference talk about the whole thing.
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Helsinki transport had a phase last year where they demanded ID to make sure you weren't using someone else's ticket / phone. Felt wrong, but I didn't look up if it was legal.
soft paw fan 64@slime.bsky.social · 6mo agothe idea of having to identify yourself or being required to have an id is authoritarian and just completely fucking insane anglosphere stays winning
Thursday sky was doing some kind of optical effect with the sunrise, and @jhilden.bsky.social got this picture, which I had to enhance with fuego Elmo.
This is a reminder that every diagram from my book Projective Geometric Algebra Illuminated is available on Wikimedia Commons under the CC-BY-4.0 license. They can be freely used in slides, papers, books, Wikipedia articles, etc., with proper attribution. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Er...
I found Projective Geometries by wondering how the card game Spot It! works. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
The Mind-Bending Math Behind Spot It!, the Beloved Family Card Game
The simple matching game has some deceptively complex mathematics behind the scenes
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One way this could work: Amy replies to Bob's post, and it shows as a quote post on Amy's profile. If Bob approves it, then it also shows as a reply under Bob's post. This kinda unifies replies vs quotes, which people use inconsistently, and makes it easier to ignore bad replies,
Forrest O.@forresto.bsky.social · 8mo agoI still think that replies should need to be approved to show up. I've never really had "numbers" >10 though, so I'm speaking as someone who accidentally looks at replies on occasion.
