i sell #generative plotter drawings. in the unlikely event that you haven't noticed before. https://buy.inconvergent.net/  #art

you can do things like this in pretty much any programming language/library, but these are exclusively made with (some version) of https://github.com/inconvergent/weir

i don't particularly recommend that you start using this library (or lisp for that matter), but i get this question a lot.

the interesting thing that happens when you have to (or force yourself to) make almost everything from scratch is that the limitations end up shaping what you (can) make.

kind of obvious in retrospect, but i didn't consider it when i started. call it an oblique strategy, if you will.

i don't know how obvious this difference is when observing externally, but it is very obvious to me when i work with these things ...

asking me what language i use bears a certain similarity to asking a photographer what camera they have. it is certainly relevant in some contexts. but my claim is that it is frequently not the best question.

all plotter drawings are made using som version of the Axidraw (i have three). and here i'm going to just recommend the axidraw (by @EMSL), if you are on the fence about getting a plotter. high quality, good service, and helpful people.

a few older things. the one with curvy lines was made using python. the others with an early version of my lisp library.

also pretty old. fracture thing made in python. moiré thing made with lisp.

and i'll stop now.

actually, one more thing. i sometimes write words at https://inconvergent.net/  . i've been told that occasionally they
(the words) are not entirely nonsensical.

i've been meaning to write more words. but i have found it hard to get stuff done recently. perhaps not an enormous surprise. here is web. since i keep adding to this thread.

this web is perhaps one of my favourite things i've made. mostly for technical reasons (it merges a lot of individual efforts and things i've learned.)

it is grown using the graph structure i've made. it uses 3d vectors and projection(which i didn't initially have). it uses the rendering technique you see, with DoF. and i manged to get nice colours. not trying to brag or something here. but these are real achievements in my book

not because people haven't done similar things (better things!) before, but because *i figured out how to do it*.

some of it be reading about it. some of it by experimenting, and some by luck. take your pick.

*by reading, god dammit.

i don't know if there is going to be a point here. maybe that i like learning things, and that learning things can be really hard, and time-consuming, and sometimes it feels great and sometimes it is extremely not good or fun.

thank you for coming to my normcore motivational TED talk. (i'm not doing a ted talk, this is a joke, yes, haha)

there is a possibility that some variation of some of this will end up in a talk, though. guess i'm just taking some notes out in the open ..

reticulating splines ...