Drawing things
I like using computers to draw art; this topic has the pictures I’ve made.
Recreating the bird animation from Swift.org
The Swift.org website got a redesign, including an animation of a swooping bird, and I read the source code to understand how it works.
Doodling with the Mac’s command icon
Rotating a looped hook around a central point creates a surprising variety of shapes.
Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany
We’re gonna need a bigger printer.
Drawing inner/outer strokes in SVG (clips and masks)
Showing how clips and masks work, and how they can be used to draw inner and outer strokes of a shape.
Illustrating lifecycle transitions in Amazon S3
A picture speaks a thousand words, which is why I always have pen and paper to hand.
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Using perceptual distance to create better headers
I started picking colours for my site headers with a more perceptually uniform approach, so their colours look more correct to the human eye.
Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow
I made some simple map visualisations by downloading tiles from OpenStreetMap, then annotating the tiles with Pillow.
s3tree: viewing a tree of objects in S3 in my terminal
A script to give me a quick overview of some objects in a hierarchical view.
Illustrating the cipher wheels of a Lorenz machine
Some old code I wrote to draw cam-accurate illustrations of cipher wheels.
Creating animated GIFs from fruit and veg
Some Python code for turning MRI scans of fruit and veg into animated GIFs.
Generating pride-themed Norse valknuts with Python 🌈
A web app to generate mashups of Norse valknuts and Pride flags.
Drawing with triangular coordinates in SVG
Some code and trigonometry for drawing shapes that don’t fit neatly into a rectangular grid.
Peering through MRI scans of fruit and veg
What do you see when you pass fruit and vegetables through an MRI scanner? And how many animated GIFs can you make?
Signs of the time
A few lessons I learned while doing the signage for this year’s PyCon UK.
Making the venue maps for PyCon UK
A quick braindump of my thoughts from drawing some venue maps for PyCon UK.
Drawing ASCII bar charts
A Python snippets for drawing bar charts in command-line applications.
Cloning GitHub’s Contributions chart
I made a clone of GitHub’s Contributions graph to use as a motivational tool.
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Drawing an image with Liquid Glass using SwiftUI Previews
I used Xcode to create an image with a Liquid Glass effect, then I used the Preview to export it as a standalone file.
Group nodes in a Mermaid flowchart by putting them in a subgraph
Combine arrows in Mermaid by using an invisible node