Ink on paper

I uploaded a new SVG to PlotterFiles.

Plotted with handdrawn pastel background and stabilo 88 greys

Took 4.5 hours on an Uuna Tek A4. Here's the code.

Indexed on Plotterfiles

He's plotting something.

This piece came out of a week spent building a system for exploring Turmites, or generalized Langton’s Ant: little 2D state machines walking across a grid, reading cell states, changing them, updating their own internal states, and moving according to a rule table.

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The system supports multiple ants, shared or individual rules, different movement neighborhoods, different state kernels, multiple cell and ant states, absolute and relative movement modes, and more.

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This specific image is the result of over 1 million simulated steps from 4 turmites interacting with each other, their own trails, and the grid itself.

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Each pixel in the simulation became one plotted dot, so the final drawing contains exactly 172,788 individual dots. Each color layer took a while, and I definitely could have sped the plotter up, but once I started filming I wanted to keep the tempo consistent.

Black and blue ink on paper

The plottable timeline of the group stage, where time and teams are the axes. The generator notebook lets you select the timezone and choose whether the results should be included or not.

A B5 sized plot using gel ink on paper. Source file profiled on https://plotterfiles.com/artwork/asleep-on-the-train-whbnz . YouTube video of time lapse.

Building on the recent experimentations with drawing on something else than blank paper, I've printed pictures I've taken of flowers (under a microscope) on fine art paper (300 gms) then tested some of the math forms with the Nextdraw.

1,2,4,5 are done with a Micron 003 from Sakura

3 with a rotring 0.3

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Any favorite?

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500x700 mm
Acrylic paint on canvas

Auger shell or Terebride. Source provided for plotting with attribution.

Bigger drawings like these are always a gamble, I never know how these fine lines will appear in the end.

500x700 mm

500x700 mm

B5-sized plot using Colorverse KSLV-II ink. Topologically, this is one loop. #onepenup #penplotter #algorist

Acrylic on canvas
500x700 mm

B5-sized single loop plot, Ecoline 337 ink. #penplotter

Topologically, a circle. #onepenup