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From Beowulf to Tolkien, to countless formulaic fantasy movies at a multiplex near you, the genre generates two-dimensional Manichaean struggles between Good and Evil, in which morality’s shades of grey are reduced to one black and one white. The real world, as most of us know (if not all presidents and prime ministers), is rarely…
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Army dudes in yoga poses: now an article of commerce
mostlysignssomeportents: Yoga Joes started life as a wonderful, weird Kickstarter to produce a set of nine “Green Army Men” in yoga poses; having raised over $100K in direct sales at $20/set ($10 for military personnel) Brogamats is nowselling them in retail channels at a $28 premium, for all nine: “headstand, meditation pose, cobra pose, warrior…
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code drawing 128
code drawing 128, various states, created 2015-10-26. I added another sprite that would clone itself to bring back the drawn lines. I had each one of the clones of the line drawing sprites move to the back of the composition as it was created. each of the drawn lines has a variable speed of drawing,…
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code drawing 127
code drawing 127, various states, created 2015-10-25. expanded the variability of the invisibility, and made the horizontal shape 2X larger. at some point during the explorations for code drawing 126 I also limited the number of clones being generated to 50 vertical forms and 50 horizontal forms. this lets the drawing move much faster.
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code drawing 126c
code drawing 126c, various states created on 2015-10-25. the last drawing had colors that were a bit too uniform in their value because they shared the same transparency. I added variability to the transparency/invisibility of the forms when they are created. once created, they remain stable with respect to color and transparency. the vary in…
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code drawing 126b
code drawing 126b, various states, created 2015-10-25. increased the size of the forms and let them run. in the post for the last drawing I misspoke. I mentioned transparency, when I meant invisibility.
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code drawing 126
code drawing 126, various states, created on 2015-10-25. constrained the motion of the forms once again, limiting them to either X or Y but not both. increased the transparency of the forms to 90% (may be expressed, or understood, as 10% opacity). Hopscotch represents alpha as a percentage of transparency. 0% transparency is 100% opacity.
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code drawing 125
code drawing 125, various states, created on 2015-10-25. allowed the movement of the forms to range in both the X and the Y direction, mixing colors in real time.
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code drawing 124b
code drawing 124b, various states, created on 2015-10-25. changed the direction of travel of the forms to be parallel to the short dimension of the forms.
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code drawing 124
code drawing 124, various states, created on 2015-10-25. tightened the distribution of the clones when they are created. the forms move in the direction of their long dimension.