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Heroes don’t aspire to be heroic. At the end of his life, Alex Pretti was simply caring for someone in need. He’s one of the best of us. Learn. #heroplot #penplotter #algorist #machinearts #bantamtools

Nowadays, when I heard Let me explain in a video, I reflexively tend to click away.

Remember when we used to find it funny that Netscape was always in beta? That seems quaint now.

In my searching, there's a paucity of anodized aluminum cards at 88x64mm. Searching will bring up business card sized ones at 51mm, of which there is a glut of.

For example, searching through Yelp for boba shops will bring up Thai restaurants - this should not be a primary result. More so with cross contaminating for drop shippers between most major online resellers like Amazon and eBay.

the mad grab for engagement has made searching often useless. you end up having to manually search through search results for what is relevant. The most valuable thing is - we don't have it.

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Made as a gift. Single line drawing. Pentel Energel pen #penplotter #plotterart #singlelinedrawing #algorist Crossposted with @openvibe.social

The Uniball Vision Elite is an underrated pen. Arguably archival quality ink.

AI slop can make you nostalgic for old fashioned Photoshop slop.

If a movie was going to be prophetic, wouldn't you rather it have been Back to the Future, rather than Idiocracy?

Kestrel. A B5-sized single line drawing using DC SuperShow Green ink. #penplotter #1penup #singlelinedrawing #algorist #bird

Even with vibe coding, people are making steel copies of wooden bridges. Those that really take advantage of the innovation possible are still rare.

When vibe coding makes it easy to copy, it puts a strain on incremental innovation. The VectorCraft phenomenon is a parasite on the existing Illustrator user base - but it isn't courting new use cases.

I tried out VectorCraft, and it is as inscrutable as Illustrator. Inkscape is already an open source tool that fits my workflow better.

New SVG - go vote, TX plotterfiles.com/artwork/earl...

Early Voting in TX on PlotterFiles (new SVG) plotterfiles.com/artwork/earl...

Wings in one line. Single line plot, 100x150mm gold Gelly roll pen on brown card. #penplotter #algorist #1penup #gelpen #plotterart Crossposted with @openvibe.social

I'd love to see a gallery of single-line artist drawings (@tfoust10 for example.

Consequently, sometimes, you have to just imagine what the plotted output will be, but you won't know until it is actually plotted. Particularly with complex single-line plots. And a raster printer will miss it.

I call it the Tyranny of Rasterization - digital visualization of vectors is presumed to be filtered through rasterization. But plotter/3d printing invoke them as tool paths.

The thing about single-line drawings in SVG is onscreen previews don t capture whats happening. And conventional raster printers miss the nuance.

One line Zebra youtu.be/VXZMuMzgPQY #penplotter #YouTube #algorist #timelapse

Shell, a single line plot with violet glitter Gelly roll ink. B5 sized plot. #penplotter #algorist #plotterart Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Leopard Repose. Pentel Energy pen. #penplotter #plotterart #algorist

There's clearly an interest in tracing primarily to vectorize crappy AI generated bitmapped images. In my testing, Inkscape still provides the most reliable tracing.

Goldfish on PlotterFiles plotterfiles.com/artwork/gold...

Marble Face. B5 sized plot with Pentel Energel, 4 pen lifts. #penplotter #algorist #portrait Crossposted with @openvibe.social

I'm not sure why they even bothered to email it to me. 0 points, Crossposted with @openvibe.social

I just filled a third art notebook. #sketchbook Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Woodcut Image of a Woman on PlotterFiles plotterfiles.com/artwork/wood...

New SVG: Woodcut image of a woman by Masereel https://plotterfiles.com/artwork/woodcut-image-of-a-woman-oojxi

I don't know what's happened, but for the first time, Migration Assistant is giving me hell.

New pet peeve: shopping for a laser printer and the algorithms are always pushing inkjets on you. Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Not intentionally following #inktober - today’s prompt is Relic. B5 sized plot using Lamang ink with an 0.45mm tip. #penplotter #algorist Crossposted with @openvibe.social

This is a test of the hashtags #tui #perch

using a TUI and CLI interface is wonderfully uncluttered, and is blazingly fast - since there are no graphics to speak of.

I am enjoying the TUI-based bluesky+mastodon client perch https://perch.ricardodantas.me. I did vibe-diagnose a bug with it. Which is kind of a positive use of LLMs.

Rattlesnake, b5 sized plot using DC Supershow Green ink in a refurbished Staedtler Marsmatic 0.45mm technical pen. Encountered some unexpected paper resistance but it worked. #penplotter #algorist Crossposted with @openvibe.social

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I'm so creeped out every time someone says "let me explain" - specially when it is outside of a short form video. We've normalized this scrambling for attention in this media overloaded world.

Why would a pen plotter manufacturer resort to AI slop to advertise their product? #terrible #aislop Crossposted with @openvibe.social

still, I appreciate the work the #inkscape team has put in. I do wish there was some kind of "nerd mode" where things made more mathematical sense rather than trying to do raster-based shortcuts.x

Wrestling with an #inkscape issue: Stroke->Path in Inkscape is really akin to flattening the stroke, and tracing it. So any visual quirks are frozen in the resulting Path, even if they are topologically inconsistent with the initial stroke.

Instagram is so much easier to deal with in a regular browser than on the phone app. I can block ads, and prevent doom scrolling. I do use Brave.

I shudder to think of young designers who start mimicking the AI generated poster art as the "norm".

Shell. B5 sized single line plot using Ecoline red ink and a 1mm tip on a Staedtler Marsmatic. # penplotter # 1penup # algorist Crossposted with @openvibe.social

I thought I could leave Rosetta on MacOS 28...until I needed to print to my Brother laser printer. The driver will never be made for Apple Silicon.

As long as text is the main thing being posted, perch seems to be a well behaved cross posting client. But support for images is still iffy. #crossposting

I commend the folks at @openvibe.social. It's not easy to write a crossposting platform for both Mastodon and Bluesky. The app spits out errors every so often, but I think it's because each platform evolves independently.

Squigglecam. #algorithm Crossposted with @openvibe.social