In a recent post I shared some thoughts about art and included a few, somewhat tongue-in-cheek comments about the use of random number generation. Specifically, Random is evil. Random is lazy. Random is OK when you’re starting a new piece.…
Circle inversion is a mathematical technique that holds a lot of opportunities for the creative coder. Circle inversion, or circular inversion, or geometric inversion is a method of transforming a point within a circle to a new point outside the…
I don’t always to a year in review post, but I like to do them when I remember to do so. Looking back over 2021, I’m surprised by how much I did and how much I posted here. Things really…
I’ve been thinking a lot about “art” recently. Specifically, what people call “generative art”, “algorithmic art”, “code art”, “math art”, etc. Here are some random thoughts. Message I’ve never been one to try to communicate some message through the things…
Not a big fan of music streaming. I have a good size, custom curated, very well organized library of music on my hard drive. It’s taken me years to create, it’s all backed up. I have a subsonic server behind…
One of my tricks when coming up with new generative ideas is to take two (or three) completely unrelated techniques and combine them. I even created an app once where I had a long list of concepts and it would…
In my last post I talked about my newest eInk tablets from Onyx Boox. Beyond reading ebooks and saving articles, the Note Air is a fantastic sketching tool. The Wacom layer and stylus is one of the big features that…
TWENTY DAMN YEARS September 11, 2001 is quite a memorable day for the obvious reasons. But for me, it holds an additional significance. Because on September 10, 2001 I registered the domain bit-101.com and on the morning of September 11…