It's been months since I plotted anything, but this Monday's #plotparty prompt (Flowers) from DirtAlleyDesign (on Instagram) and a particularly beautiful crop of peonies blooming in the garden nudged me to try a new photo to plotter workflow.  I used copilot to reinterpret the photo into a rendering style and then vpype flow imager to render to SVG.  Staedler Triplus on office paper. #plotterart #penplotter

i enjoy this flowchart explaining how bash decides whether to use .bashrc or .bash_profile https://blog.flowblok.id.au/2013-02/shell-startup-scripts.html, mostly because it makes me understand better why I could never understand how the 2 config files worked when I used bash

Some no-brainer optimizations later and the bubbles are solidly over 30 FPS. (Plus this time I bothered to record with a tripod :P)

Hey checkout this great #ptpx postcard from @polygonsoup on Instagram.  Love these colors, and the sgraffito technique!  #plotterart #penplotter #plottertoot

@twilliability Nice!

Thanks for the lovely #ptpx postcard @rupert !

Woohoo! #ptpx postcards hit the post office earlier this week. And besides that, I did a little write up about it. https://tinyurl.com/FaceAntiface #plotterart #penplotter

During his #ArtFrame residency @paulrickards has been producing work for an upcoming show in May at our robotic showroom & gallery!

#ptpx is stretching out into a year long event! 😂 Friday I received this piece from Romain (data.flaw on Instagram). Love that sharp contrast of the white on black! Look closely to pick up on the alternating line structure (you see it more in the thumbnail). #plotterart #penplotter #plottertoot

(originally posted on 2024-12-23) - PTPX24: Let's meet in the middle #1 + #2 After some work on stroke ordering, color switches and introducing a third 'blending' color (yes, I'm cheating), I ended up with these two postcards that will be heading out the door to far off places.

"Let's meet in the middle" #1 & #2
Gouache on paper

#ptpx #ptpx24 #creativecoding #creative #codeart #plotart #paintplot #axidraw

(originally posted on 2024-12-19) - PTPX24: breaking new ground When I received the registration email for #ptpx (plotter postcard exchange) 2024, I was a bit hesitant at first, but then remembered how fun it was making the plotparty postcards that I figured "aah sure, why not!".

So I signed myself up for this year's edition.

This seemed like the perfect opportunity to try out something I'd been wanting to try out for quite a while, but

In this next iteration I thought of adding curved shapes. The trick is to filter out the curved segments of such shapes and only allow connecting on the straight ones.

See, the arc has two curves and two straight segments connecting those curves.

Does it happen to you that you should be doing something else, but you have an idea and don't want to wait to try it out? 😁 And then you immediately have the idea for the next step? XD

#creativeCoding #OPENRNDR #Kotlin
#MadeWithCode #geometry

Thanks @doersino for this clever #ptpx postcard showing the OSM street map data thoughtfully placed nearby, but not exactly on, my house.  Extra thanks for sharing your code (https://ghpages.noahdoersing.com/osm2svg4art/) - I definitely do plan to try it out!
#plotterart #penplotter
#plottertoot

this is me reminding you that i make plotter drawings sometimes. you can see them here https://img.inconvergent.net/plot/

Thanks for the card @artplots ! #ptpx

Every December, there's a pen plotter postcard exchange called #ptpx (I've participated for the past two years: https://mastodon.social/@doersino/109460427108652884 & https://mastodon.social/@doersino/111688094152383358).

Fashionably late for #ptpx2024, I just sent out my 16 cards – totalling 230-odd meters of drawn lines and adorned with 42 stamps. They depict the roads in the general area around the recipient's address.

I've built a tiny tool to pull the required data from OpenStreetMap's Overpass API and convert it to SVG: https://ghpages.noahdoersing.com/osm2svg4art/

@SwiftOnSecurity This one:

"The difference between encrypted information and radio noise is your faith there cannot be a key for the static."

I've swapped #penplotter postcards in the last few rounds of #ptpx and it's always such a treat to get good mail. Here's what I received for 2024's exchange:

📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order!

This a speculative index of communications networks, a love letter to experimental art & technology, & a liberatory guide for escaping the corporate present. Many of you know that, for years, I have been compiling and cataloguing a history of communications networks, one full of alternatives to the monolithic, surveilled internet as we now know it. The result is this compendium of possibilities that existed before or outside of the internet and a tribute to their experimental use by artists, covering everything from pirate radio to barbed wire telegraph, from synthesizers that transmitted over the telephone to encoded messages bounced off the surface of the moon.

Because of the hard work and creative genius of Mark Iosifescu, Jesse Pollock, and everyone at Anthology Editions; Robert Beatty who made the breathtaking cover and section designs; and Ella Gold for book design, OTHER NETWORKS is also a feat of beautiful design. And as if that weren't enough, the talented @jomc wrote the Foreword and the legendary @hrheingold wrote the epilogue. So, so many people to thank, including many of YOU, for making this happen! https://shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898-lori-emerson-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook