Jim C
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Jim C
@jimconant.bsky.social
Math guy
Bataquitos Lagoon after sunset.
November 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
With my aunt at the top of the Palm Springs tramway.
October 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
View from my workplace. Not bad.
October 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Vegan kimchi "steak" bowl at Veggie Grill in Carlsbad.
October 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Just got back from the downtown San Diego protest. Huge crowd! Similar to the 60K+ we had back in June. The atmosphere was very chill. People showing up in solidarity to support democracy.
October 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Just saw this cool argiope trifasciata out in my garden in San Diego county.
October 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Argiope trifasciata - banded garden spider.
October 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I snapped this picture of a spotted orb weaver in my yard a couple days ago.
October 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
October 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Kit Carson park, Escondido
October 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
It's spotted orb weaver season in San Diego county.
October 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Orb weaver in the sky.
October 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
September 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
September 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Turns out using 4 transpositions to generate S_5 gives a much more symmetric looking Cayley Graph.
September 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Cayley graph of S_5 embedded in R^4 using 4 of the eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian. 4D rotation projected into 3D.
September 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Incorporating "deeper" math in my creative coding endeavors. This takes a Cayley Graph for the symmetric group with the minimal 2 element generating set consisting of one transposition and one cycle. Draws graph using eigenvectors pairs of graph Laplacian to get vertex x and ys.

70% me, 30% ChatGPT
September 27, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Bury Trump with this.
September 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Finished up the Genuary creative coding prompts many months after the fact. It was a fun experience. Hopefully next year I will have the time to participate in real time.
September 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Prompt: pixel sorting.

I sorted the RGB values of each pixel using perlin noise.
September 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Prompt: abstract map, take 2. Added electrostatic potentials to make sure the graph spreads out.
September 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This photo is from her official X/Twitter account.
September 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Prompt: abstract map

This didn't come out as well as I would have liked. I guess the state adjacency graph is not 3-connected, so the tutte embedding is not actually an embedding
September 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Prompt: grid based graphic design.

Complement of a stage 2 Menger sponge. 3D perspective drawing completely coded by hand.
September 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Monsoonal updraft over the mountains.
September 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM