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I write code that makes pretty pictures.

#mathart #fractal #generativeart #python #albuquerque #newmexico #sandiaheightsartists

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It's Fibonacci Day! Here's a fractal image based on the Fibonacci sequence. It's your typical Mandelbrot equation z ↦ zⁿ + z₀, but instead of a constant n=2, here n follows the Fibonacci sequence as the fractal iterations go up. Orbit trap of a ring, which […]

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Fractal image: A lime-green ring in the center, with rings of increasing fractal distortion underneath, in greens, oranges, and yellows. Thin pink lines fall behind the set of rings.
November 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Northern Lights easily visible to the naked eye from Albuquerque, New Mexico! I thought the Sandias were named for the pink appearance of the mountains, not the sky...

#aurora #northernlights #albuquerque #newmexico #sandiamountains #sandiaheights
A pink Aurora above the Sandia mountains and silhouette of a tree. A pink Aurora above the Sandia mountains and silhouette of a tree.
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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The cat pulled the blanket off the chair so he could be cozy for his #Caturday .
A gray and white cat is snuggled under a thick blanket with only his face and back leg visible. The blanket features an orange and white houndstooth pattern.
November 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I've got one more #mathober post - today's prompt is "recursion", and this by-hand construction of the Spiral of Theodorus seems sort of recursive. Just keep adding triangles over and over. The length of the hypotenuses are the square roots of 2 through 17 […]

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A spiral made of right triangles of increasing size somewhat resembles a nautilus or snail shell. Outlined in black ink and filled with watercolor, the triangles are alternating blue and pink, with three yellow triangles interspersed.
October 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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I had to look up today's #mathober prompt, "odious", to see what it meant in a mathematical context. I learned that an "odious number" has an odd number of 1's in its binary representation. Then I wondered if anyone had extended that to other number bases […]

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A 50 by 50 grid of dots over a black background, where each dot may consist of 1, 2, 3, or 4 concentric circles in red, yellow, orange, and blue, or the dot may be missing altogether. Some patterns emerge in the dot configuration due to their mathematical source as odious numbers.
October 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Managed to photograph Comet Lemmon tonight, October 18, an hour or so after sunset from Albuquerque New Mexico. From the northeast foothills looking toward Rio Rancho, so not the best low-light conditions, but it was easily seen with binoculars and the […]

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Night sky photo of Comet Lemmon. The comet is a greenish blob in the upper right, just to the left of two brighter stars. A pear-shaped tree is silhouetted in the foreground, and lights of the city make an orangish glow near the horizon. Night sky photo of Comet Lemmon. The comet is the greenish blob with tail near the upper center. A tree is silhouetted in the foreground. Closeup crop of the comet, showing its greenish tint.
October 19, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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I haven't been posting for #mathober, but have been messing with compass and straightedge constructions, colored in with something like watercolor or pencil. Today's prompt, "chord", seems to fit this construction of a pentagon, which involves placing 5 […]

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A regular pentagon inscribed in a circle was drawn with compass and straightedge, colored with watercolors emphasizing the construction lines. There is a smaller red circle on the left and half circle on the bottom, and a larger blue arc along the top, with the bulk of the pentagon shaded in green.
October 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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I've been kicking this around in my head a little lately.

If #ai is supposed to be a democratizing force that will ultimately be no different from magic... When people say they are "learning AI" (as-in using AI tools) now so they are ahead in the future, what are they really saying? In the […]
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September 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Happy Pythagorean Squares Day! (9/16/25 = 3²/4²/5², a Pythagorean Triple). Here's a visualization of the smaller two numbers of a set of Pythagorean triples. Values were found using Euclid's formula with n and m the integers up to 100 and k up to 25. Color […]

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Colorful dots fading from sky blue to yellow appear to be radiating upward from a central point, forming a square shape. The dots in the square appear to have some order due to their connection as Pythagorean Triples.
September 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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All set up for this weekend's Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It's the one in-person show I do with my algorithmic and fractal art. If you're in New Mexico this Saturday or Sunday, stop by and say hi! […]

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A display of fractal and algorithmic artwork with pieces of various sizes and colors hanging on the wall and on a table, ready for a show.
September 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Deep within the Mandelbrot Set.

#fractal #mandelbrot #mathart #orbittrap
Fractal image, like looking into a deep bottomless woven basket made of yellow and blue cords, with the yellow getting oranger the deeper it gets.
September 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them.

States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
State steps in to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccine
Public health order counters potential limitations set by the USFDA
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August 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Why, yes, of course I wrote code to convert text glyphs into orbit traps for fractals. Notice the outline of a 4th order Mandelbrot set.

#fractal #orbittrap #applepie #inventtheuniverse #sagan #mandelbrot
Fractal image. The words "Invent the Universe", "Apple Pie from scratch", and "you must" appear warped and repeated over the image, vaguely following the outline of a Mandelbrot set.
August 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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It's 37 °C / 98 °F outside, and my cat still wants to sleep in the sunbeam.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
A gray and white tabby cat lays on his side with outstretched paws, centered in the one sunbeam still making its way through the window behind him. A potted plant next to the cat casts a long shadow on the painted orange floor.
August 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Well thanks, Sparkfun. Now I had to spend my morning updating Schemdraw to correct the DB9 vs DE9 name in its circuit element library, and add several other D-sub connectors. 😀

https://news.sparkfun.com/14298

#db9 #de9 #schemdraw #python #schematic
它是DE9，不是DB9。
It''s DE9, Not DB9 (news.sparkfun.com) 07-25  ↑ 101 HN Points
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July 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Albuquerque makes the best rainbows.

#albuquerque #newmexico #sandiamountains #sandiaheights #rainbow
A full arch rainbow over juniper and pinon trees with the Sandia mountains in the distance. A faint second arch is visible too.
July 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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I made some "Human Intelligence" and "No Cookies" icons for my website, and am releasing them as public domain (CC0) for anyone who wants to use them (and who doesn't use generative AI to make their content).

https://codeismycanvas.art/posts/icons/

#noai […]

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Three vector art graphics. The first shows the profile of a face with brain surrounded by a circle. Inscribed in the circle is the text "100% Human Intelligence". The second graphic shows a different head with brain in a rectangle looking at the text "Made with 100% Human Intelligence". The third graphic shows an icon of a cookie, with a bite out of it, inside a red "NO" symbol, with the text "No Cookies No Trackers No Ads".
July 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Got a new batch of fractal prints going into mats, getting ready for the Sandia Heights Artists Tour. I'll be sad when the Kodak Endura Metallic photo paper finally runs out of stock after being discontinued - it makes the fractals shine!

#fractals #arttour […]

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Three 8x10 fractal prints in mat boards and clear bags are scattered on a table. Off to the side, a stack of unmatted prints and info sheets are ready to assemble.
June 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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My wife stumbled across her dad's old Instamatic camera, and discovered it still had film in it, which we worked out has been in the camera since at least 1983. Found a local place that still develops 126 Kodacolor cartridges (Picture Perfect Photo Lab […]

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Digital photograph of a film negative exposed in 1983 and not developed until 2025. It's mostly a weird shade of green but a few very faint streaks indicate there may be an image. An image taken from the film negative after heavy post-processing reveals a girl standing on the steps of a porch, carrying a bag in each hand. The photo is blurred and contains lots of grain and noise, but is recognizable and even shows some color variations.
June 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Fractal time again.

#fractal #mathart #generativeart #rings
Fractal image. A grid of pale blue rings, with yellow, green, and orange wavy shapes behind.
June 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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In celebration of World Metrology Day this week (May 20), here's "The proclamation regarding weights and measures, 1556", a mural by Ford Madox Brown completed c.1893, depicting the announcement that the residents of Manchester "shall send in all manner of […]

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The mural "The proclamation regarding weights and measures, 1556" by Ford Madox Brown. On the right, an old blind man with white dog rings a bell while holding a scroll, apparently announcing the new decree. Listening to the announcement are a grocer leaning out his store window, looking a little annoyed by the disruption, the grocer's wife grating cheese over some food, a young man with archery bow possibly trying to trade goods with the grocer, and a peasant with baby sitting on the ground who doesn't appear to know what's going on. A giant wheel of cheese sits on the sidewalk under the grocer's window. The same painting with speech bubbles added. Old man: "By order of his majesty, all weights and measures must be calibrated!" Grocer: "Great, how am I going to sell my giant cheese wheel while my weights are out for cal?" Grocer's wife: "Whatever. This needs more Parmesan." Peasant: "What's a weights and measures?"
May 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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It's fractal time!

#fractal #mathart #generativeart
Fractal image. A yellow sunburst with smaller and oranger sunbursts on each side. A light blue-green loop wraps around the perimeter behind.
April 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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At some point, I have to stop agonizing over color palettes and just post the thing.

#fractal #fractalart #generativeart #mathart
Fractal imagery. Nearly concentric rings fading from yellow to deep red in the center appear to be hanging from a loop like a medallion on a necklace, while greenish tentacles extend from behind the rings. Smaller copies of the ring structure are scattered throughout.
April 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Today I took the plunge and installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel 9, after weeks of experimenting with it on an abandoned 4a. Happy to report the Square app for taking credit card payments, which I expected to be a deal-breaker, seems to work just fine (that was with the bluetooth chip reader). I […]
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March 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM