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Mary Holstege
@mathling@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Retired software engineer. Now I write programs to make art and, lately, make art with words.
Will natter on about tech in general with forays into linguistics, football, cooking, politics, climate, and random stuff.
Maker of jam. Petter of cats. Viewer of stars.
she/her or they/them
RSS feed: https://mathling.com/art-rss.xml
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Joined October 29, 2022
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RedBubble (Merch! Prints!):
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DeviantArt (Bit out of date):
The mighty huntress waits for her prey, completely hidden from view
I despise the creeping NFLization of soccer:
- eliminating ref judgement
- effing VAR, effing ball sensors, effing magic offside detectors
- hand ball when they didn't handle the ball
- millimeter precision of offside calls
- endless subs
- overly complicated rules
- "quarters"
I don't care who you have lined up to perform, the half-time show has no place in a WC Final and I hate it already
Old woman shakes fist at cloud
BWA-HAH-HAH
What shall we do with you, my lovelies?
Present from the Cat Whisperer, who knows me Far Too Well
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For diamonds, the asymmetry gives an impression of directionality. The amount of shift dependent on placement of the ends along the strand.
Whence the impression of turning, swirling spirals here? I have no idea. We have straight strands of diamonds, just as before.
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There's more going on here than meets the eye. The widening of the shapes dependent on the placement of each end relative to the focal point. The subtle glow around each shape. The Zipf-distribution of size, but the biasing of larger sizes away from the focal point.
Penny, getting scritches
#ScribesAndMakers March 20. Self-promotion day!
The Belle Epoch trilogy is done (#3 is available for pre-sale, out next month, #1 is being serialized at http://mathling.com/books/index.html)
Art! AIs! Space ships! Alien artifacts! A melange of somewhat messed up characters. It's a ride.
Check it out: https://books2read.com/ap/xqYAAW/Mary-Holstege
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We can play with different shapes; orient them inwards or outwards.
Here, a storm of arrows
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Shimmer crystals
Colouring is gradients among a random set of colours from a parent gradient.
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@cstross@wandering.shop As the NTSB guy said: "All that safety is built on the wisdom of dead bodies."
More amusingly, my favourite design fail photo (from a toilet)
#GenerativeArt interlude
Oh look! A kuwahara filter turning my photo into something painted.
Chapter 50 of Atraxian Blue (@b6ElAx@books2read.com) is up at
http://mathling.com/books/index.html
Tea with Tressa
In which Renny gives Tressa tea, plus a whole lot more than she bargained for
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@barefootliam Well dang. That sucks. I am doubly sad because I won't be able to make it this year. (Eclipse, Majorca, yadda yadda)
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Joints/back
- Yoga/daily spin on the cycle to loosen up that old knee
- 2gm hyluronic acid
- Hot bath
- The distraction of making things (yes, typing hurts my wrists, but only if I'm not lost in the flow of what I'm typing...)
It's almost as if we have learned precisely nothing from the decades of literature and research on specification languages.
Nah, I kid. It is that exactly.
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@jauntywk.bsky.social thank you! That's very kind
Chapter 49 of Atraxian Blue (@b6ElAx@books2read.com) is up at
http://mathling.com/books/index.html
The third corridor
In which Lila shows Renny something she's been hiding all this while and comes up with something better than his pointless drama queen noble self-sacrifice nonsense plan
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@khobochka@mastodon.social Can confirm. They are a huge fraction of my website traffic and they don't honour any constraints I put on them short of hard blocks