Forrest O.
@forresto
(projects) (parametric CAD for makers)
It's a 40 second explainer about perfect shuffles. www.forresto.com/perfect-shuf...
Found a nice Sudoku algorithm, and made it Cuttle-ified, which means arbitrary glyphs and seeded random. I solved this one and it took a while for the emoji to click, but it was fun doodling. cuttle.xyz/@forresto/Su... #CuttleXYZ #puzzle
any polyrhythmic nerd rock duos need a parametric animated music video? #CuttleXYZ
Render inspiration Aalto Maljakko. Cuttle can export 3D now, so here's the same curve extruded and brought into #Blender for material, lights, and animation. There's a disconnect though... I'd like to figure out how Cuttle's parameters could also be animated in Blender. #CuttleXYZ
I have a "Shadow" modifier in Cuttle that can do pseudo-3D. Here's a growing fractal vase, Sierpinski curve. #CuttleXYZ
Cooking vid algo showed me someone making garlic powder... by toasting and grinding the skins. I know better than to reply. But it's such a weirdly specific confident wrongness, and doesn't seem to be intentional ragebait.
Before and after. By connecting the touching corners before rounding, you end up with fewer separate bits, which translates to fewer tool jumps with various CNC processes. It's possible I've been going down the rabbit-hole a bit on this! Shipping soon!
Found a nice way to modify a QR Code that makes it friendlier for inlay, pen plot, laser score, 3D print...
Design system as Canva library would be totally usable, but someone would have to maintain it and nudge folks to start there.
Some day one of these slop diagrams won't give itself away with melting dream writing, but not yet.
I want to port my Observable notebooks to my own site. There are some fun experiments in there, and it would be nice to have that notebook authoring flow in my own space. observablehq.com/@forresto/mu...
Thursday sky was doing some kind of optical effect with the sunrise, and @jhilden.bsky.social got this picture, which I had to enhance with fuego Elmo.
another new to me newyears tradition, reading beeswax blobs. reminds me of the visual language in _arrival_
Sorry @zed.dev and @zen-browser.app... one of you is going to need to add some color to your logo or something.
#moonhance but for stars (Stellarium screenshot overlay). #helsinki #mustikkamaa #kruunusillat #orion
The previous version was based on a modular origami pattern by Tomoko Fuse, normal printer, same projections. Quicker to print, slower to assemble.
Love it when a plot comes together. Score wheel, pens, blade. ObservableHQ/D3 for map projections and Cuttle for Boolean ops on the vectors.
someone in my thread hit a glitch when they looked at my high score yesterday. 🙃
oh no they found my stealth glossolalia swarm mvp www.forresto.com/spatial-glos... (spatial webaudio tts headphones experiment)
The print worked out well and it makes a nice body mod. The impression lasts about 15 minutes.