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Forrest O.
@forresto.bsky.social
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https://forresto.com/ (projects)
https://cuttle.xyz/@forresto (parametric CAD for makers)
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Right on, brothers...
Trucking company logo with flaming tire: Trans-Boys H&M oy
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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The print worked out well and it makes a nice body mod. The impression lasts about 15 minutes.
Sierpinski curve with rounded edges pressed into inner forearm to temporarily emboss the skin.
October 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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2025-10-10
Yhteiskerhotila Talas
Talas Community Center
#Helsinki #Kalasatama
Wooden construction for a large community center. Modern methods with old-school log cabin elements.
October 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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#Moonhance app prototype as a Meemoo graph. (Including moon.val.run to proxy the current NASA moon render.)
Meemoo.org data flow graph to screen a high res render of the moon onto a camera phone photo with a small blurry moon.
October 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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i keep coming back to it, and now it's feeling like a higher dimensional
reversible sequin pillow
October 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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State of the collaborative Truchet tiling. #mmott (automerge and val town)
October 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/...
1909 newspaper from Finnish archives. kansan tahto.
September 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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chronical of Victoria dot com multi-county community calendar. many random articles, horoscopes, ads for bail bonds people, etc, crammed into on US letter monochrome photocopy.
September 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Working on 3D Export (~2.5D for this first version) for cuttle.xyz.
We've been focused on X and Y for five years now, so it's fun to start playing with Z.
(#CuttleXYZ #cad #3dPrinting)
Cuttle CAD interface showing 3d export options and preview. Rounded layered sierpinski curve with monochrome layers and isometric camera.
September 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Good connections at the office. @jhilden.bsky.social
Holding two hemispheres of a simulated rope around sphere. Tipa-leipä, a kind of funnel cake that they make in Finland around May Day.
May 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Here's jäähaka, later in the post meltyhaka... www.forresto.com/fab-academy/...

#Helsinki #FabAcademy
Scale model Helsinki neighborhood cast in ice.
April 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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On wear and repair.

https://www.forresto.com/2020s/shade-fail-fix.html

#mundanePosting #repair #laserCutting #CuttleXYZ
1. Old brackets for the shade the circle having worn into a blob three times as big. 2. The sheared off end of the 5mm pin, with the middle worn to a small conical point. 3. Repair with replacement pin embedded into laser-cut circle with three sunk screwheads around the pin. Please clap.
March 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Made a TV stand with slot-together joinery for Fab Academy CNC milling week. Don't miss Frank the vacuum's maiden voyage. 🤦
https://www.forresto.com/fab-academy/07-computer-controlled-machining.html
#FabAcademy #FreeCAD #CNC
laser cut mini tv stand, to test the fit. Mini and full size versions. IKEA-like assembly step illustrations.
March 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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FIT: Five Intersecting Tetrahedra

Enhancing the WWW with inspectable 3D embeds of a tricky modular origami construction puzzle. Maybe I'll find it again in 20 years when I try to fold it again.

https://www.forresto.com/2020s/fit.html

#origami #mathArt #OpenSCAD #Blender #FabAcademy
Five tetrahedra, each made with a different color of paper, are woven to make a "FIT" model, five intersecting tetrahedra. Photographed on 35mm film in 2008.
February 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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A couple of weekends with Blender Geometry Nodes, and I made what I had in mind. A curve gets turned into a rope with physics constraints and growth. Fun tool!
#Blender #GeometryNodes
January 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Getting closer to the simulation I've been shooting for.
.blend files and videos in the Notion.
#Blender #GeometryNodes
Rope around ball simulated and rendered in Blender. Low poly style rendered with shadows. Grayscale.
January 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I messed with Blender over break enough to learn to make this with Geometry Nodes.

Learning journal: https://fopub.notion.site/3d-Singh-s-Rope-Tutorial-XPBD-1774337bf87d801ab9abe458eeedd8cc shout-out 3D Singh

#Blender #GeometryNodes
January 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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does it recompress,
does it loop

#vector #animation #loop #CuttleXYZ
December 8, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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Instead of <video loop...> it looks like they're doing something fancy with JS that keeps loading the video from CDN as long as it is on screen. In 5 minutes this one has loaded 60+ MB.
Network tab filtered to "video" showing 61.4MB total downloaded. 👃
November 29, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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November 29, 2024 at 11:36 AM
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#helweird
Stone painted like a black cat in loaf position, nestled in the snow. Small figure in background with too real hair and belly showing a bit between shirt buttons is behind the cat.
November 24, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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chiral color seeds

#CuttleXYZ
November 22, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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As a user I was permanently banned from Strava. I made a group that accidentally got too popular, 40k people... I assume the app promoted it. It was called "Forrest Gump Challenge" and they said it was impersonating a person or brand. 🙄

I didn't depend on the app, but it was insulting. 👟
We have given you the reason why the account was banned and the club deleted. We're reaching out to you because it has come to our attention that you own or administer a club/s on Strava that have engaged in conduct that violates Strava’s Acceptable Use Policy, which is part of our Terms of Service. Specifically, those policies prohibit publishing, transmitting, distributing, or storing content, material, information or data on Strava thatis fraudulent or contains false, deceptive or misleading statements, claims or representations—including misinformation, or impersonation such as of a person, company, or brandsignificantly or repeatedly disrupts the experience of other users You, as an owner/admin of a club, are responsible for the content and health of that club. At this moment we have decided to uphold our decision and permanently ban your account.
November 21, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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hinge lid box + pattern fill + noise warp

Tile pattern borrowed from a Santa Fe bathroom floor.

#CuttleXYZ #AaltoFablab #laserCutting
clear acrylic hinge lid box with tile pattern on lid, closed open box filled with silver reflective wrapper candy
November 20, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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Here's the annotated version! With links to videos, source designs...

www.tldraw.com/v/v6A_c_7v_-... (@tldraw.com view-only)
photo of wall covered in paper art items, with arrows leading to videos of the items being made or handled, and other arrows leading to websites of other artists
November 19, 2024 at 7:05 PM