Archive: 2021

packing superellipses

I was wanting to pack superellipses tightly, so I worked out how to get two of them to be tangent to each other, and this allows me to create superellipses that are as large as possible and so fill space well. For this image, I turned off the requirement that the superellipses not be inside one another, and I think it has a nice look to it.
superellipses

These are all 4-exponent superellipses (i.e., their shapes are the same as that of x4+y4=1).

Benjamin Peret poem

GROWN OLD THE DEVIL BECOMES A HERMIT

Louis-Phillipe is tall for his age
Give him some pennies
his cap will be too small
Give him two neckties
he'll lie every day
Give him another pipe
his mother will cry
Give him a pair of gloves
he'll lose his shoes
Give him coffee
he'll have blisters
Give him a corset
he'll wear a collar
Give him suspenders
he'll heal mice
Give him a club
he'll board a plane
Give him soup
he'll make a statue of it
Give him shoelaces
he'll eat gooseberries

It's Monsieur Phillipe
who lives on pills and blotting-paper
eats his mother
and forgets time walking

--Benjamin Peret (trans. Marilyn Kallet)

perlin noise video

I resisted learning about Perlin noise...until yesterday. Then I wrote some Perlin noise code in Processing (processing.org) and made this video with it. I can see why I resisted learning about it: it looks like stuff I've made using other techniques, so I don't know that I personally need this method for anything. But now I have it in my brain, and that is cool.