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Jeff Palmer
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Today's exploration.

#CreativeCoding #JuliaLang #DigitalArt #Art #Artist #AbstractArt
A series of blue lines that squiggle as they near the bottom of the screen atop simulated brushstrokes in dark green, pale green, dark blue, and slate blue.
October 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Back to making #DigitalArt in #JuliaLang

#CreativeCoding #AbstractArt #Art
Two large yellow-ish blobs that look as though they were scraped down a canvas with a trowel are alongside a series of rough lines on the right side of the image. The lines have a slight slant, and are a brown color. Near the bottom of each line it begins to wander and wiggle, only to straighten out as it continues downward.
October 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Digital exploration of some ideas I have for a physical work.

#CreativeCoding #Art #Artist #GenArtClub #DigitalArt
A field of rough orange and yellow stripes that move in waves across the screen.
September 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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If only it were that easy, lol.

#HomeDepot #oops
Screenshot of a product description from the Home Depot web site describing a solid brass mail slot set. A portion of text is highlighted which reads "Spring-loaded front flap keeps the mail from entering your home"
September 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Finally got around to building my KLOR keyboard, and I have to say I'm really loving it so far! 🎉

#MechanicalKeyboard #DIY #keyboard
A KLOR 36 key mechanical keyboard. Black case with white and gray keycaps. It's split into two halves, and these halves are joined by a silver cable with brass plugs.
September 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Completed this painting recently. I've transitioned to a mode of art making where I create computer algorithms that generate images, which I then paint by hand. I find mapping rigid computer-based processes to the messy real world to be extremely satisfying.

#Art #Artist #Painting #AcrylicPainting
A painted wood panel with a white background. There is a green and brown geometric pattern painted in acrylic paint that resembles a technical drawing or architectural rendering.
July 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I use a combination of tools, but tape is my biggest friend. I like to put guidelines on the edges and then use a ruler to place the tape. It’s a bit of a process, for sure.
An in-progress photo of a painting in which yellow masking tape is being used to block out sections that will be painted. There are a variety of other tools scattered on the table around it, including scissors, a ruler, and various tubes of acrylic paint and bottles of medium.
July 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Made some "art trading cards" for an upcoming end-of-term art club party at my local community college (where I've been taking painting classes).

Looking forward to seeing what other folks bring - I'm the only person making such aggressively abstract work. 😅

#PenPlotter #CreativeCoding #Art
A bamboo desk with five small works of art on them, each 63mm x 88mm. They are in black and yellow, and the artwork is abstract line work based on a recursive algorithm that subdivides space in a regular way. The results are reminiscent of technical drawings. There are three Rotring Isograph pens on the left side of the trading cards, and two bottles of ink above them.
May 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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#CreativeCoding #JuliaLang #GenArtClub #DigitalArt
A ghostlike image of swirling paths moving through space and overlapping one another, in a similar but not identical pattern. Grayish-blue against a black background.
March 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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I spent yesterday plotting this very detailed image. Regular paper didn't hold up to the image's many overlapping strokes unless I used a ballpoint, which shed ink in a distracting way.

In the end, Yupo paper provided the best result. Amazing detail/tonal gradation. 🔥

#PenPlotter #CreativeCoding
A photo of a pen plot of a physics simulation gone wrong. There are many overlapping black lines that seem to move chaotically across the page, while darker regions seem to form an abstract pattern of loops and curves.
February 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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"Use physics simulations to create your art," they said. "It will be fun!" they said... 😭😝

#CreativeCoding #GenArtClub #JuliaLang
A screenshot of a physics simulation of a pulled strand of beads gone wrong, with random-ish lines flailing about all over the place in total chaos.
February 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Another PCB test, this time with the detail turned up. 🔎

I've been trying to understand what draws me to this aesthetic, and I think it's because I find there to be a certain beauty in the complexity of modern technology, especially when mixed with an organic component.

#CreativeCoding #GenArtClub
A generated image of a printed circuit board, with an organic complexity unlike normal PCBs.
February 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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For some reason today I decided to try to replicate the aesthetic of a printed circuit board.

I have some vague ideas of how I might apply this in the future, but just getting it to this point was interesting.

#GenArtClub #CreativeCoding
A digitally generated image that resembles a printed circuit board, with a dark green background, lighter green traces, and yellow contact points. There are many different traces that move from one side of the image the other, in a maze-like fashion.
February 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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#Genuary26: Symmetry

I think the outputs from this algorithm would make cool/interesting stained glass.

#CreativeCoding #Genuary #GenArtClub
Blue, orange, and red nested triangles form symmetric shapes around the y-axis.
January 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Somewhat hilariously, my creative coding library didn't support triangles. It could draw rectangles, circles, and lines in HDR really, really fast. But not triangles. 😅

No longer! Today I read some OpenGL specs and added fast tris to the mix. 🎉

Small victories, lol.

#GenArtClub #CreativeCoding
A complex set of larger triangles that are broken down into smaller triangles recursively. There are larger yellow triangles that contain many smaller light and dark gray triangles, all of which are separated by small bits of whitespace.
January 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Plotted an output from my recent #genuary triangular subdivision algorithm. Needs some color, IMO, but has potential.

0.2mm Rotring Isograph on 9x12 Bristol

#PenPlotter #CreativeCoding
A chaotic yet symmetric structure made from many triangles subdivided, forming an abstract pattern with a concentration of activity around the center.
January 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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#Genuary 12/13/14: A line-based triangle subdivision algorithm

Three prompts in one project/day is some kind of record for me, but these all fit together so nicely I couldn't resist. I want to go back and color the tris, though. Soon.

#CreativeCoding #genuary12 #genuary13 #genuary14 #GenArtClub
A triangular shape that is broken into smaller triangular shapes in a curving recursive fashion. A square image that is broken into small triangles, forming an abstract shape with long slender triangles over many, many smaller triangles.
January 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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#Genuary Day 8: Draw one milion of something

This is one million random values drawn from an 8 octave FBM, plotted as a continuously growing radial histogram with min/max values mapped into TAU. 😅

Made with #Julia

#genuary8 #GenArtClub #CreativeCoding
An expanding spiky spiral in black that grows outward and has various areas of intense spikiness, where many values have been selected.
January 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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While I'm a fan of the messy lines that Bic ballpoints create, every so often I like to pull out my 0.2mm Rotring Isographs. Their immaculate ink flow and line consistency is incredible, and they excel at geometric abstractions like these.

9"x12" Bristol

#CreativeCoding #GenArtClub #PenPlotter
An image comprised of two lines that fold back on themselves to fill space in rectangular blocks, with one line in a shade of blue-green, and the other in a shade of dark magenta. Where the line regions overlap, a purple-ish color is formed. A single line in a blue-green color that folds on itself to form rectangular regions, which themselves aggregate to form an abstract shape that spreads down from the top of the page to the bottom.
January 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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#Genuary Day 1: Vertical or horizontal lines only.

Made with #Julia

#CreativeCoding #AlgorithmicArt #GenArtClub #genuary1
A meandering line that moves in large strokes vertically, while slowly moving to the right. The line gains thickness as it moves to the right, and appears to be more and more stretched out as it approaches the right side of the image, as if it were smeared across a sheet of paper.
January 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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My experiments with unpredictable mediums continue. This image is a single line drawn with a Bic Cristal ballpoint. I greatly prefer the artifacts caused by this type of pen when creating these works. The less reliable, the better!

#Art #PenPlotter #GenArtClub
An abstract geometric pattern comprised of a single line that traces numerous rectangles in green ink.
December 27, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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Another experiment with oil-based ballpoint pens. Here I used a very small increment for each line, resulting in very slow progress and some interesting gradients as the ink accumulated in certain sections of the image.

Plot time: ~30 hrs over 4 sessions

#PenPlotter #CreativeCoding #GenArtClub
Blue ballpoint pen lines drawn very close to each other, creating the impression of dark and light gradients in a swirling, looping abstract composition.
December 24, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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A recent abstract geometric oil painting. In this case, I programmed a recursive algorithm to generate the overall structure, and then painted the result on 18"x24" ABS. The transformation from digital to physical via my own hands was deeply rewarding.

#Art #Artist #OilPainting #GenArtClub
An abstract geometric oil painting that contains gray, light blue, and lime green rectangles against a dark blue background. The rectangles are filled in and form a repeating pattern with more rectangles the farther down the painting they move. On the right side is a series of small gray rectangles that are filled, with a series of black rectangular outlines that look like they have yet to be painted.
December 18, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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What all of my time with my X-ACTO knife yesterday got me. 🎉

Recently I've been creating new algorithmic artworks with the goal of using the patterns as a basis for my oil paintings and learning a lot. I have so many ideas now, but I have to get this final project done first. 😅

More to come!
An easel with a large in-progress painting on it, covered by a stencil that was created using a plotted pattern and an X-ACTO knife. There is a palette with paint and a palette knife next to the easel, along with other miscellaneous oil painting supplies.
December 3, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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What I wouldn’t give for a laser cutter today. 😅
A knife sitting on a piece of paper that has a pattern printed on it. On row of the pattern has been cut out of the paper with the knife.
December 1, 2024 at 8:50 PM