CATT PRINT: Projects

Spent some of the day plotting more cards for the Patreon peeps, using a bit of maths to 'blend' from one set of colours to the next, turning each one of these into nine colour pen plots, which is... a lot, and had me wishing I had an automatic pen changer

I went into the studio today to work on my online shop.

As the most recent Drawing Machine 101 video was about randomness, which included when to draw these lines - I've been plotting a bunch for the Patreon members.

These are still waiting until after last frost to go outside.

Well, good news, it turns on!!

Got some new shelves for outside the greenhouse as the seedlings are being moved back and forth, in and out, in earnest now.

FUCK OFF SPARROWS

Sparrows keep nibbling the growing veg, in theory this will either stop them, or give them something interesting to look at.

Okay, so this thing turned up in the studio.

Went to London, took some snaps, got super tired!

Made a video about random number, and picked some of my favourites (between 0 and 1).

I'm enjoying being in the greenhouse, surrounded by plants.

Trying to set up some colour calibration in the studio.

Cut the business card up back at my studio.

I have a new company, DEEP KEEP LTD - which is all about helping people to archive, well, stuff.

Bought a whole bunch of 3d glasses, so when I send these 3d plots to the Patreon members they'll actually be able to see them in 3d.

Refined the 3d plotting a bit more and switched up the pen to something that shows up a lot better.

Got some more flowers in there, straight from the garden centre, as the ones I'm growing in the greenhouse are still nowhere near ready.

More shots from the garden.

I got thinking, that if I could output a single SVG file of a view across the landscape, I should be able to shift the "camera" to the left and right of that point and get a stereo pair of SVG files.

Did another print of a The Sentinel landscape.

Plotted out another 48 frame animation, where each frame is 16:9 ratio.

Four pages of plots, 64 frames in total.

I said I wasn't going to grow vegetables, only flowers for ink.

The blossom doesn't last long.

As I had the Sentinel landscape generator working I made it save out png views as well as the SVGs.

Trying a new design with the brush pen holders.

More of the Sentinel plots, this time I have the code generating a number of frames that are then plotted, with an eye to stringing them all together as an animation.

A few days ago Mark released an annotated version of the BBC Micro source code for the game The Sentinel, a game that's fascinated me since I first played it years ago (1986).

Quick one this; spent the day working from Swan Hill Studios, upstairs 'cause there was something going on downstairs.

Worked on a second revision of the brush pen holders.

As I was using the brush pens a lot more and they kept getting in the way I figured I could make a pen holder like I did for the TWSBI pens.

Now it's started to get warmer I've been moving the plants in and out the greenhouse to get some of them 'hardened-off'.

LAMY have come out with a new rollerball pen that takes the ink cartridges from their Safari line of fountain pens.

Had a go at making business cards for Aaaaaah Riso, which I like.

Go moving on the Drawing Machines 101 video, the first up was about 'Loops' - and in this case a While loop, one of the lesser spotted ones.

I've been meaning to try the brush code onto longer forms, think bookmark format I guess, or a banner/standard.

Cut up the cards for the Patreon members today, packaged them up and got them sent off.

Adjusted the code to handle fitting one size of paper inside another size of paper.

I am pretty much besides myself with joy!

The circles still weren't quite what I wanted to do, which was fill up a page.

After the previous mark making brush code I wanted to go bigger.

Back in the studio today.

Gotta stop the plants getting used to the luxury of the greenhouse, so they got turfed out this morning to spend the day outside.

Had to spend an extra couple of hours this morning sorting out all the extra bulbs and plants from the garden centre.

Doing a little more with the mark making brush work.

Went to the garden center and bought far too many things, so I spent the day figuring out a) what to do with it all and b) where to put it.

I particularly like this one, which happened because the plot before this had the brush height set wrong, so it scrunched the brush down into the paper splaying the bristles a bit.

As we still won't have gotten to actual code for the DM101 videos, we're still in the introduction stage, I have to create some extra pen plots this month for Patreon peeps.

Can still get out in the morning early enough to need the fairy lights.