My wife recently had a significant birthday and I wanted to make her something special. I had a piece of maple with a lot of character and decided to make a small box for her birthday. The maple was heartwood with a deeper color than you’d typically associate with maple and I added some contrast […]
I’ve been painting more of the hard edge watercolor pen plots and finally got around to editing some video. The video below goes through the process and talks about how the paintings are made. Enjoy!
A couple of months ago I accidentally created an effect with some curves and color in p5.js. I really liked the effect so I decided to begin plotting and painting the curves. Note: You can check out this video if you want to see the process in action. The images below show a couple of […]
It’s relatively easy to budget and save when your financial situation is stable. However, life and money have a tendency to change and not all situations are stable. The RealPlanCalc is built to answer questions about what happens when your financial situation changes in the future. Specifically, it illustrates how additional savings and income impact […]
My wife and I welcomed two delightful girls into the world earlier this year. The process wasn’t easy. We struggled with infertility for years and had an IVF cycle that was a total bust. Fortunately, we tried IVF a second time and, much to our surprise, ended up getting twins! Somewhere along the way, we […]
Have you noticed that you never get around to doing some of the things you say you want? You might even start, but you never truly commit to what you’re doing. Other times you say you don’t know what you want or can’t decide between a few different things. Maybe you want to write a […]
Over the years I’ve noticed that I have a tendency to say or think, “we can make that,” when I see something cool. In many cases the thing is a piece of furniture. Even though I know I can make the cool thing, I never make most of them. The main reason, as far as […]
One of the things I like to do with p5.js is sit down with a loose idea of something to explore. When I do that and add in some randomness and noise the outcome is usually more interesting than something I could have figured out up front. In this video we use Curve Vertex and […]
I won’t delve too deep into work here, but there is one thing we need to touch on. A couple years ago I started using Python to automate my work. In case you don’t know, Python is a programming language that’s great for manipulating data and automating daily tasks. I found that I really enjoyed […]
Note: You can think about this post as having two parts – the p5.js code part and the pen plotting part. This post covers the code to create the bookmarks and the video (linked at the bottom) shows the physical process for exporting the images and plotting them. Let’s get started . . . I […]