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#generativeart interlude

#genuary14 It just fits

It seemed like a good idea at the time

#xquery #svg #GENUARY #genuary2026

A cartoonish tan lightbulb stuffed with various glyphs in neutral colours (plant dyes).

January 14, 2026 at 10:44 PM

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#generativeart interlude

#genuary12: boxes
#genuary13: self-portrait

Portrait of the artist as a bunch of boxes: rotation of box and colour mapping based on luminance

#xquery #svg #GENUARY

A ragged mesh of green and blue crystal blocks, forming the shape of a woman at a podium.

January 13, 2026 at 10:54 PM

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#pennedpossibilities 900, Share a piece of lore from your WIP.

The central tenet of the main religion: The Great Raven tears up souls so they can be respun into a new life. There is a pole star called the Raven's eye and the Southern lights are those souls being rended and torn. Sometimes you […]

January 13, 2026 at 5:55 PM

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Chapter 31 of Atraxian Blue (https://books2read.com/u/b6ElAx) is up at http://mathling.com/books/index.html

Renny Sketches

In which Renny thows himself into art as a balm for his tortured soul

#scifi
#writing
#atraxianblue

January 13, 2026 at 3:27 PM

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#generativeart interlude

#genuary11 quine

Not a quine; I don't have a lot of patience for code golf. But I played with the text of the program that made this.

And I used weirdo fonts just to make everyone cringe. I really do need to work out better text […]

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Coloured rectangles tilted this way and that containing snippets of code in various fonts, most of them entirely unreasonable ones to write code in. There is something deeply disturbing about decorative and script fonts being used for code.

Side note: I once wrote the coding standards for my team to have all the bad examples in some horrid proportional font. It really made them stand out as wrong, I can tell you.

January 12, 2026 at 12:04 AM

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#generativeart interlude

#genuary10 Polar

Not polar, but bipolar

The bipolar mapping of a series of parametric slices of a sum of sines and cosines

#xquery #svg #GENUARY #genuary2026

Woogly shapes in neutral tan shades reach towards each other from the two poles. Hands? Maple leaves? Spiders? It's cool, regardless.

January 10, 2026 at 6:21 PM

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#silentsunday

A pair of cape buffalo stand on dry grass amid some scruffy and largely treeless saplings. Others are hidden in the background. "You lookin' at us? Huh? You want some of this?"

Back away very very slowly.

January 11, 2026 at 5:23 PM

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#generativeart interlude

#genuary9: Crazy automaton

Not that crazy. Rule30 over luminance, with some oddball adjustments to hue and saturation based on the luminance bit. Orientation of triangles as exercise for the viewer.

#xquery #svg #GENUARY #genuary2026

A grid of triangles of various orientations and colours. There are triangular patches of darker triangles pointing down. There are several irregular flows of colours (from left to right): yellows, teams, greens, yellows, tans, and more yellows.

January 9, 2026 at 8:10 PM

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#generativeart interlude

#genuary8 City

Contour maps over a noise field with angle-constrained venation within the scope of one of the medium contours

#xquery #svg #GENUARY #genuary2026

A topographic maps with rather vibrant neon colours. On an "island", a network of black roads.

January 8, 2026 at 9:57 PM

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#generativeart interlude

#genuary7 boolean

circle ^ ~triangle

#xquery #svg

Contour bands in bright pinks and deep blues. The pinks come to a point in the center of a triangle in the top left; the blues fall into a curved pool in the bottom right.

Colophon: signed distance functions mapped to colour bands

January 8, 2026 at 2:36 AM

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#generativeart interlude

#genuary2026 "Genuary"

SNES optimization to converge on the glyph shapes with a fairly high error bar

#xquery #svg #GENUARY

The word "Genuary" in red with some blue and green echoes.

January 5, 2026 at 11:23 PM

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Chapter 30 of Atraxian Blue (https://books2read.com/u/b6ElAx) is up at http://mathling.com/books/index.html

Belle Epoch: Nanites

In which Tass is experimented on, supposedly for his own good

#scifi
#writing
#atraxianblue

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January 5, 2026 at 7:52 PM

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#writerscoffeeclub January 4: "Share a tool of your trade."

Pandoc: https://pandoc.org/
It lets me do all my writing in annotated Markdown (in Emacs, yay) and then make EPUBs, or PDFs, or DOCX as appropriate.

With a little assist from https://invisiblexml.org/ and my own code hackery I can […]

#silentsunday #photography

January 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM

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#generativeart interlude

#genuary2026 #genuary4 Lowres

Because a lowres Newton fractal is still a Newton fractal

#xquery #svg #GENUARY

$Golden Newton fractal over polynomial (3+1i)sinh(z)^6 + (1i)sinh(z)^5 + (3-1i)sinh(z)^4 + (3i)sinh(z)^3 + sinh(z)^2 + (-2i)sinh(z) + (-2-1i) Dots of gold form curls and shimmers. It's cool and pretty, even lowres.$

January 4, 2026 at 9:41 PM

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Six spirals enter, a mesh exits

A delicate meshwork of twisting blue ribbons, coming together in hexagonal flowers in places. You can see fragments of the spirals, but several of them merge together and are hard to separate. It's pretty though. A little like snow. A little like lace.

January 3, 2026 at 11:16 PM

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#generativeart interlude

#genuary2026 #genuary3 Fibonacci forever

Here we show the tiles from a random tiling (with wild tiling edges) that contain points along a Fibonacci spiral (or two)

#xquery #svg #GENUARY

A Fibonacci spiral in blue tiles shaped like little manta rays. In the center of the spiral we get a fragment of actual tiling; towards the end of the spiral, things get more spread out.

January 3, 2026 at 11:16 PM

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Looking over a split rail fence connected to a barbed wire fense across a field towards some small barns. Behind them some dark conifers and the snow capped Olympics. The sky is low and dark. It is cold. Snow is in the air. Heading to Mom's to help with the stroke, taking a moment to breath on the road up to the house.

Location: Port Angeles, WA
Photographer: me

January 4, 2026 at 3:21 PM

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#caturday

A little hexagonal photo manipulation

#xquery #svg

A black cat in a cat bowl, ears up looking towards us. It is rendered as slate blue hexagons in various sizes and brightnesses.

Cat: Nyx
Photographer and image manipulator: me

January 3, 2026 at 5:26 PM

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Bonus cat picture because, hey, cats

A cat head, rendered as purple hexagons in various sizes and opacities.

January 1, 2026 at 8:49 PM

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#generativeart interlude

#genuary2026 day 1: One color, one shape

Hexy

#xquery #svg #genuary1 #GENUARY

A bowl of pomegranates rendered as a bunch of hexagons of different sizes in shades of grey. It's a bit of a cheat on the "one colour": same colour, different luminosities.

January 1, 2026 at 8:48 PM

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#writerscoffeeclub Dec. 31: Take pride in what you've written and share the progress you've made!

https://books2read.com/ap/xqYAAW/Mary-Holstege

This year, man. Having my brain hijacked until I finished off my fanfic novel I realized I *could* write a whole novel of my own, so I did. Two. And […]

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December 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM

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Chapters 28 and 29 of Atraxian Blue (https://books2read.com/u/b6ElAx) is up at http://mathling.com/books/index.html

The destruction of Tas'Noor: in which Tas'Noor is attacked
No,Captain: In which Lila calls Toussaint on the carpet

#scifi
#writing
#atraxianblue

December 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM

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#ArtAdventCalendar

Merry Christmas everyone!

Saturn and its rings, backlit by the sun. My take on the pale blue dot photo. Hand-drawn digital.

December 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM

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#silentsunday

"Eh, we don't know either"

Museum display (Pech Merle) showing a lovely tooth necklace with a detailed label. Underneath it is what looks like a ruler made from a flat rib bone, with little regular tick marks all along the edges. The label here is just a scattering of large white question marks. The curators didn't even go for the usual dodge of labeling it "ritual object" and I salute them for their brave honest bafflement.

December 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM

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Chapter 27 of Atraxian Blue (https://books2read.com/u/b6ElAx) is up at http://mathling.com/books/index.html

Dinner and a show: In which Renny is amazed by Lila's cooking, appalled by what happens next, and in which Toussaint makes a dark suggesting

#scifi
#writing
#atraxianblue