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Ian Henry

@ianthehenry.bsky.social

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i work at the intersection of set theory and figurative language http://ianthehenry.com | http://bauble.studio | http://janet.guide | http://toodle.studio

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Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · Jan 10

building bauble

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Building Bauble

I made something that I think is pretty neat, and I want to tell you about it. This is a little hot air balloon made out of alternating layers of brass and bronze that lock together with these angle...

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Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · 18d

unless the points are all equidistant i don't think there's a solution that will give constant slope everywhere. i think you'd get a closer approximation it if you can raise the heights of your drain points (seems physically plausible) and also optionally allow draining off the edge

Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · 22d

I don't understand the question yet

Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · 25d

You can try! I don't really know anything about computational geometry beyond what I learned for that article but I can do my best.

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Yaron Minsky @yminsky.bsky.social · May 28

A new Signals and Threads just dropped, with @ianthehenry.bsky.social! This one is about building tools for traders, but it also has some fun dives into Ian's personal projects, including bauble.studio and janet.guide.

Anyway, more here:

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Bauble

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Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · May 17

bauble.studio ! Still Janet but very different from raylib

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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · Apr 28

I made a website. It's called "one million chessboards." It has a million chessboards on it.

moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. No turns. You can move between boards.

that's it. Have fun!

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Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · Apr 12

added hard mode to my blog

Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · Mar 21

rotate

Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · Mar 11

eroding

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Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · Feb 6

theo jansen: www.strandbeest.com

Strandbeest

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Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · Feb 5

island sketch

Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · Jan 19

beautiful!

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · Jan 19

My first week with Bauble. A short thread

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Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · Jan 19

if you don't think about repetition as consisting of individual tiles, but just as "space itself is periodic," then you can use any periodic function distort space in fun and interesting ways. i think this is really neat! is this worth a blog post? i dunno

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Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · Jan 19

but really what's happening is that *space* doesn't move at a constant rate anymore. or an easier way to think about it: the camera turns around and scans the shape "backwards" when it reaches the edge of a cell. the discontinuity is gone because the "camera" never "jumps"

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Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · Jan 19

you can think of traditional sdf tiling as a sawtooth function of space: when you reach the edge of one cell, wrap around and start the next cell -- producing discontinuities as you go. by taking a triangle wave instead, each cell is basically mirrored

Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · Jan 19

periodic spaces

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Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · Jan 17

because it's 3d printed i didn't need a traditional hook; instead the "chain" threads through a curved hollow in the pieces which is kinda neat

anyway this was mostly an experiment to see more of sculpteo's materials (the silver is solid but the rest are plated brass)

Ian Henry @ianthehenry.bsky.social · Jan 17

moon pendant in black/white rhodium and silver/gold

this is a distance field distorted by worley noise to try to emulate a hammered effect. didn't 100% work but kinda interesting