sketches

My collection of personal plotter generative art sketches made with vsketch and whiskers. Sketches made with vsketch can generally be run and interacted with using the following command:

$ vsk run hline

Some additional dependencies might be needed, including but not limited to:

• vpype-explorations
• hatched
• vpype-text

The sketches made with whiskers can be run and interacted with using the following commands:

$ cd hex_cells
$ cargo run --release

A working installation of Rust is needed.

Disclaimer: Though I wrote it, note that this code doesn't necessarily match my standards—here the end justifies the means :)

The code is available under the MIT license and the artworks under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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hex_cells

My #ptpx23 postcards. First sketch made with whiskers on this repo.

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layers

Quick and dirty sketch to serve as banner for my article on layers, vpype, and the Axidraw.

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kare

Tribute to Susan Kare's iconic work on the early Macintosh. These were my #ptpx22 postcards. Made with vpype-pixelart.

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snowflake

A quick-and-dirty snowflake generator for Xmas giftwrap decoration.

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world

Rotating earth, 280-frame loop I made to illustrate my article on the Automatic #plotloop Machine.

Here is a video of the process:

And the resulting loop:

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warp

Hyperspace jump, 200-frame loop made automatically with a couple of Raspberry Pi, some LEGOs and a Doit script.

Highly compressed/dithered, 40-fps GIF:

Other versions:

• Uncompressed 4-fps GIF here.
• YouTube version at the intended 120 fps here.

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fill_test

Details here.

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machine_typography

17 letters for 17 recipients. This is my winter '21-'22 #ptpx contribution.

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postcard

Helper sketch to create postcards with addresses and a custom message. Very useful for #ptpx.

Instructions:

1. Create the following files next to the sketch script:

• addresses.txt: all the addresses, separated by two new lines
• header.txt: header text (typically, your address)
• message.txt: postcard message, may contain $FirstName$, which will be replaced as you expect

1. Run the sketch: vsk run postcard
2. Adjust the parameters and your message until everything looks good, then save a configuration (my_config)
3. Export all SVGs: vsk save --config my_config --param addr_id 0..8 postcard (adjust the address ID range as needed)

Added Jan. 2023: support for bitmap font rendering using the Monocraft font:

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liquid_neon

Small experiment which combined the neon module sets with some deformation filter that would eventually become the squiggles command.

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drift_poly

My design for early 2021 #ptpx. The config for the 9 cards I made are included in the repo.

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dots

Just a bunch of dots drawn with vsk.point() on a regular grid. Sometime they are skipped, sometime in a different color.

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random_lines

That's 500k Perlin noise values obtained in a single call of noise().

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circular_patterns

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fish

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perlin agents