Tags » drawing things

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  Doodling with the Mac’s command icon

  Rotating a looped hook around a central point creates a surprising variety of shapes.

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  Drawing repetitive radial artworks

  Using polar coordinates to draw leaf- and flower-like patterns that repeat in circles around a point.

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  Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany

  We’re gonna need a bigger printer.

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  Generating art from lattice graphs

  Randomly selecting a subset of edge from a graph can make pretty pictures.

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  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.

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  Illustrating lifecycle transitions in Amazon S3

  A picture speaks a thousand words, which is why I always have pen and paper to hand.

• Two examples of hover styles on images

  When I hover over an image, I can add a border to a link, or change the colours of an SVG icon.

• Drawing a better bandwidth graph for Netlify

  A two-part pie chart lets me see how much bandwidth I’ve used this month, and whether I’m on track to exceed my bandwidth allowance.

• 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.

• Some experiments with circle-based art

  Casually covering a canvas with coloured circles.

• Drawing a circular arc in an SVG

  A Python function to help me draw circular arcs, as part of an upcoming project.

• 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.

• Creating coloured bookshelf graphics in Rust

  Explaining some code that draws coloured rectangles in a way that looks a bit like an upside-down bookshelf.

• Creating striped flag wallpapers with Pillow

• Adjusting the dominant colour of an image

  Adjusting the hue to get different colour variants of the same image.

• 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?

• Creating low contrast wallpapers with Pillow

  Take a regular tiling of the plane, apply a random colouring, and voila: a unique wallpaper, courtesy of the Python Imaging Library.

• Tiling the plane with Pillow

  Using the Python Imaging Library to draw regular tilings of squares, triangles and hexagons.