Generative Art Height Noise I understand that many people fall in love with Perlin noise when they first learn about it. It did win an Oscar, after all. But why use a simulation of
Dataviz The Logpile Chart A couple of months back, an idea came to me in a dream. That sounds ridiculous, I know, but it's true. I woke up one morning with a clear-as-crystal picture
Plotter A Weekend With a Plotter It was pretty good timing that my plotter arrived just before the Easter weekend. I had a full four days to experiment with it and start to get to grips
Plotter A Wild Plotter Appears! I'm extremely excited to say that I'm now the proud owner of a pen plotter. Specifically, the Axidraw V3/A3. I had a grand plan to save up money slowly
Generative Art Smoulder 1-5 I was making some generative versions of what I wanted my upcoming Carbon in Context graphic to vaguely look like. Then I put in some ridiculous values for the fun
Code Generative Design Last week I ordered a new book, and yesterday it arrived. Generative Design is a guide to creating generative art using the P5.js library. It includes a gentle tutorial
Experiments Make Your Own Data Glyphs With Joyful Data The folks at Gramener's Storylabs have built a "happy little tool" built on JOY.JS that allows you to create your own system for encoding data in glyphs. It's called
Experiments Replicated Territories The other day I saw this great bit of plotter work on Twitter, and loved the look, so I wanted to see if I could replicate something similar digitally. Territories
