sketch-a-day
coding a visual idea a day
Welcome! My name is Alexandre Villares and since January, 2018 I have been coding sketches everyday, publishing the source code in the same repository that stores this page, github.com/villares/sketch-a-day.
The results here are mostly tentative, exploratory, and I don’t feel like they need to be relevant or meaningful on any particular day. The everyday practice leads to the emergence of ideas that I consider interesting, worthy of further exploration. Some of those have been added to selected work, this collection itself became valuable for me, and it is my pleasure to share it with anyone willing to explore coding as a creative and expressive medium.
You can follow me on Mastodon @villares@ciberlandia.pt or at @villares@pynews.com.br, where I post most of my daily sketches. Please do not hesitate to contact me regarding licenses to use my work, teaching opportunities, consulting or other projects.
If you appreciate what I have been doing, you may also support my artistic work, research and open educational resources I publish on-line using the Brazilan PIX key at 46c37783-5edb-4f1c-b3a8-1309db11488c, PayPal or gumroad.com/villares, where you can subscribe to my [sketch-mail] newsletter.
Here are listed some of the tools I have been using more recently:
- [py5] is my main too, combining a Processing Java infrastructure and Python 3;
- [pyp5js] is my browser based choice for creative coding, based on pyodide + p5.js;
- [shoebot] - great 2D vector graphics creative coding with Python;
- [pyscript] - another useful Python in the browser tool;
- [FreeCAD] - the wonderful 3D modeling tool, CAD & more, Python infused;
- [Blender] doesn’t need introductions, I guess, but it has a nice Python interface you might have missed.
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A tetrahedron with #py5 and a bit of #NumPy … Maybe tomorrow I’ll tackle the icosahedron, but if I’m tired, I might do just use the built-in box() for the hexahedron ;)
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#Voronoi #Delaunay #scipy
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Work in progress… things that used to work (in previous studies) look confusingly broken.
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Maybe, just maybe, I’m getting to enjoy using #NumPy.
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Slowly working on some #NumPy skill so I can get back to my combinatorics explorations (thinking about removing rotations and reflections…)
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#vtracer raster to svg tool from the visioncortex group.
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#scipy #Voronoi #shapely
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Another “hello py5” sketch made during an impromptu “corridor track” tutorial
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Ramalho @lr@ciberlandia.pt (e Feurzeig, , Solomon & Papert) tinham razão: andar e virar é mais fácil…
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I love to play/create an #LSystem, check discussion at https://github.com/py5coding/py5generator/discussions/555
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more Slider tweaks
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I now can use the mouse wheel to control my naive sliders!
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Today I worked on this with a friend to whom I’m teaching Python classes: 336 configurations made from 4 truchet modules (diagonaly divided squares with black and white sides) plus black and white squares. Removing rotations!
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1200 polykings of order 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-polyomino)
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704 one-sided octominoes, using code inspired by a great talk by Hamish Campbell https://pyvideo.org/kiwi-pycon-2013/polyominoes-an-exploration-in-problem-solving-w.html
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Inspired by this post from Armchair Epistemologist: https://hostux.social/@rcriii/112406728834440508
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2811 ways of coloring a grid of 3 x 3 squares removing rotations…
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31 ways of coloring a grid of 2 x 2 squares removing rotations? Is this correct?
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WIP, this is still including and excluding some rotated configs with same geometry and different painting :( I’d be happy if it included all or excluded all the painting variations. Working on it.
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1434 configurations of ways of dividing a square (using a grid of 9 subsquares) The colors now show the minimum number of colors you need to color the regions,
widhout adjacent areas having the same color.
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2810 ways of partitioning a square using 5 x 2 subsquares, shown on a 38 x 74 grid of 2812 positions.
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1200 ways to divide a square using only the squares and smaller diagonals from a grid of 3x3 points (edges, mid-side and center of the square).
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456 ways to subdivide a 4 x 2 rectangle (merging 1 x 1 sub-regions)
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1434 ways of subdividing a square merging areas from a grid of 9 subsquares.
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512 configurations, ways of “enclosing” elements from a 3 x 3 grid
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There are 1295 ways of making enclosed areas using the segments and shorter diagonals of a 3 x 3 grid of points. 1296 if you consider the “empty” case of not enlosing any area.
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animation shows some examples of black and white triangles in a 4 x 4 point grid being merged (with same color triangles)
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broken but fun! #debugaesthetics
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WIP
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WIP
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based on Jim Bumgardner’s sketch https://openprocessing.org/sketch/41142 from 2011.
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Trying to replicate the “Tecniquim tiling” idea from John
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Inspired by Rougier’s first example in From Python to Numpy
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sketch_2024_09_08 [faded-parsons-visual]
The daily sketch was a “Parsons Problems” puzzle, the code on the link produces both the “chequered image” and the YAML for the the puzzle page
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#shapely
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#shapely
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#shapely experiment… not brilliant but fun.
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Playing with Ziaplot
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#networkx #3d #graph
G = nx.balanced_tree(4, 5)
pos = nx.spring_layout(G, dim=3, seed=1)', margin, margin)
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#networkx #graphviz #pygraphviz
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I think this is my first attempt at combining py5 and networkx :) #networkx #graphviz
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#IslamicPatterns
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More #IslamicPatterns studies.
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#QuadraticBezier #CubicBezier #CatmullRom
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Working on the curves demo sketch. Now you can switch modes and it can print the code generated. You can still drag the handles but I didn’t record it. #CubicBezier #QuadraticBezier
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#QuadraticBezier curves have a single control point. I find them easier to work with, sometimes…
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Updating my #BezierCurve interactive example.
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#shapely buffers, subtractions and instersections
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More #IslamicPattterns studies.
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Studying #IslamicPatterns with hexagons.
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Inspired by @JeanBaptisteEt4’s work: https://mathstodon.xyz/@JeanBaptisteEt4/112837724665792089 #tiling #tesselation
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Reproducing a pixel manipulation example from Guzdial & Ericson’s Media Computation with Python!
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Not at all what I wanted :( playing with layers (geodataframes) from#prettymaps, but getting confused because I’m terrible with #matplotlib data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors ttps://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
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work in progress … #osmnx data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
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Work in progress… tesselation studies
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130 rectangles on a 5 x 5 grid of points.
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100 rectangles on a 5 x 5 grid of points
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A first baby step towards Tetris with py5. Python’s dicts are so cool!
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Em colaboração com Nariz Coletivo d’aprés Warhol…
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Kind of works… based on Stand-up Maths video abou rotation without rotation (3 skews) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LCEiVDHJmc
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Back to drawing text with colors for highlights. I have an earlier sketch that uses Python’s tokenize to draw source with some basic syntax coloring https://github.com/villares/sketch-a-day/tree/main/2023/sketch_2023_08_14, this one is simpler (preparing for another idea).
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another nasty SVG + pymunk failure
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Not very good WIP :(
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sketch_2024_06_14 [blender geometry nodes]
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I’m happy with this, I converted yesterday’s sketch to an OO strategy and I could solve my “parent angle alignment” wishes.
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the true May 17th’s sketch
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#PyConUS I made this during my tutorial :)
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40 different ways to divide a square using points from a 3x3 grid.
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WIP on “partitioning”
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WIP
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Revisitando uma ideia de sketch de 2018 inspirado em um sketch de manoloide (Manuel Gamboa Naom)
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Formas básicas, preenchimento, traço e interação usando draw(). Esse sketch do dia é bem bobo, mas o codigo anotado vira um quebra-cabeças de Parsons em https://abav.lugaralgum.com/faded-parsons-visual
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#pymunk
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#pymunk
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#pymunk experiments… trying to extend pymunk.Body with a DrawableBody class (instead of monkeypatching pymunk.shape.Poly & etc.)
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#Numpy
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#pymunk
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#DebugAesthetics
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40 hexágonos brancos a partir de uma grande de 3x3 pontos. Em branco em quadrados pretos, dispostos em uma grade de 8 colunas e 5 linhas em um fundo azul.
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All the 125 possible not self-intersecting polygons form a 3 x 3 grid of points (without rotations and translations).
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Success! All the possible simple quadrilaterals from a 3 x 3 grid of points. Yesterday I had broken my hashing function that made it possible to eliminate rotations (it is possible to eliminate reflections too, but I like to have them)
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still WIP, my translation/rotation elimination strategy didn’t work (so turned it off on this output)
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WIP … hard to debug
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Fiddling with https://github.com/Botffy/polyskel/tree/master
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#scikitgeometry #skgeom
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#OpenSimplexNoise #Numpy
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the red text encodes the neighbours state
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WIP
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for facet in bs:
with py5.begin_shape(py5.LINES):
py5.vertices(vs[v] for v in itertools.chain(*facet))
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Now using #shapely as suggested by @py5coding@fosstodon.org :)
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circle and line segment collision, based on: http://www.jeffreythompson.org/collision-detection/line-circle.php point_circle
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rect collisions
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Still capture of anolher animated gesture experiment
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Another animated mouse gesture experiment
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Another animated mouse gesture experiment
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Another animated mouse gesture experiment
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Another animated mouse gesture experiment
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Sorru, no music.
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#genuary30 just porting ad using a Processing shader example
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#genuary29 using a 3D sdf based mesh library
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#genuary27 the gif degraded the color gradients :(
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#genuary26 Inspired by deconbatch’s “Poor man’s Diffusion Limited Aggregation” Istead of calculantig costly distance, I’m reading a pixel from the canvas and seeing if it falls in the “black halo”. I started not showing the halo, but changed my mind.
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#genuary25
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not engough energy for #genuary24 :(
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#genuary23
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#genuary22
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#genuary21 #LibreTranslatePy #LibreTranslate
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#genuary20 with shapely
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#genuary19 Variation of an early flocking experiment
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#genuary18 Bauhaus (inspired by Albers)
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Badly done #genuray17
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#genuary16
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#genuary15 Physics (using pymunk)
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#genuary14
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#genuary13
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#genuary12 “lava lamp” OpenSimplexNoise
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#genuary11 inspired by Anni Albers
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#genuary10 ASCII
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#genuary9
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#genuary8 Double-pendulum simulation based on pygame code by Bryan Brickman
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#genuary7 progress bar
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#genuary6 screensaver (based on earlier Processing sketches for “tweetprocessing”)
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#genuary5 d’aprés Vera Molnar “interruptions” (https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1193775/interruptions-drawing-vera-molnar/)
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#genuary4 pixels
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#genuary3 droste
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#genuary2 no palette
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#genuary1 #genuary2024 lots of particles
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