Dave LeCompte (he/him)

@bigdicedave.bsky.social

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Game Developer, 3d printerer, dancer, movie-goer, theater-goer, road tripper, loser of found things. https://bigdicedave.itch.io/

green knit hat with two 3d-printed half-sphere eyeballs sewn to the top
green knit hat with 2" googly eyes
180 row beanie knit on the Sentro Circular Knitting Machine in dark green Wool Ease yarn
green and blue variegated yarn used in a hat and scarf. The scarf also has black sections. I think the green/blue is wool yarn, and I don't know what the black is.
150 row beanie hat, knit on my sentro circular knitting machine. I used Red Heart Super Saver yarn, which is economical, but wasn't giving me good results on the machine.
Red and white knit scarf, using Red Lion "Super Saver" acrylic yarn. Alternating white bands of 30 rows and red bands of 20 rows.
"Santa Hat" in "Cranberry" and "Wheat" Wool-Ease yarn. I wanted to make this in time for the holidays. The total hat is 180 rows, with 20 rows for the brim in the "wheat" colored yarn. 20 rows is about two inches, and I didn't plan it out well, so the inside of the hat is the cranberry red color, which is visible at the bottom of the brim. Still, a mostly satisfying Santa hat for the season.
blue and white knit cap, made on a Sentro circular knitting machine
Bayshore Yarns in Silverdale, Washington
knit beanie hat, with 20 rows of "wheat" at the top, followed by 20 rows of "forest green heather", followed by a stripe of 10 rows of wheat, then 20 rows of "cranberry", except that the brim of the hat covers up most of the cranberry stripe.
hat and scarf in blue and gray wool
knit scarf in blue and gray wool yarn, with a yardstick adjacent, showing that the scarf is approximately 6 feet in length.
Work in progress picture looking down at a Sentro 48-needle knitting machine with two colors of green yarn, and claw weights.
Knit hat in lime green yarn, knit on a circular knitting machine
A knit hat in a lime green color, knit on a 48-needle Sentro circular knitting machine
beginning drawing the second black quad on the second draft
Here you see two red quads and two blue quads. If you looked at the finished work, you know that there are intended to be three blue quads. If I wanted to lie to you, I could say that I'm going to draw the third quad next - but actually, this is an error, and I abandoned this print at about this point. My SVG generation generates one black, one blue, and one red SVG, and I had sent the third blue quad to a debug SVG which doesn't go to the plotter. I hadn't noticed this at generation time, only as the plotter had gone into action, so I reloaded the plotter, regenerated the blue SVG, and started over.
beginning to plot the first red quad
a hexagon comprising 8 smaller half-hexagon quadrilaterals, in red, blue, and black ink. The quads are filled with flow fields, which look to me a little like wood grain. The red pieces are the smoothest, followed maybe by the blue, then by the black. I find it interesting that I can't tell for certain whether blue is wigglier than the black or vice versa.
beginning to draw red squares, this time in red, this time mostly vertical
pen plotter drawing an 8x8 grid of squares
pen plotter drawing with flow fields alternately red-vertical and black-horizontal, forming a chessboard. The finished drawing is 8 inches square, each square being an inch on a side.
pen plotter drawing of concentric circles, made up of 25, 16, 9, 4, and 1 "beads". The finished work has a vaguely astrological feel.
"River" flow field, drawn in blue gel pen, flow lines are largely coherent, mostly going from top left to bottom right of the image.
debug output, with heading of the flow field lines encoded to HSV.
Completed drawing, with space-filling curved blue lines following a "flow field", generated from simplex noise
A poster with the words MATH JAM in large letters, and small numbers and letters filling the rest of the poster, drawn in blue ink.
a pen plotter drawing of a rectangle around a hexagon around a bunch of small circles, around a pair of medium sized circles, filled with a set of parallel lines. There's some extraneous lines in the upper right hand side that I need to sort out, I think my plotting bed is not quite level.
apollonian gasket of 13 circles inside a larger circle
knit hat, in white, light green, dark green. The bottom of the hat has dropped stitches and some of my most uneven work, inspiring me to try again.
multicolored hat on Sentro knitting machine
black/white/gray hat, with black and white pom pom
Blue body hat with heather gray brim on the left, with black and white speckled hat on the right, resting on Sentro 48 circular knitting machine
yellow/orange/white "candy corn" knit hat, just off the Sentro 48 needle circular knitting machine
Two 3d printed geometric puzzles - one in orange, black, and white, the seconds stellation of the rhombic dodecahedron, the other in purple, black, and white, the third stellation. From designs by Stewart Coffin
Knit hat in pink with a purple brim
Knit hat with stripes of white/blue/purple.
knit hat in red and white yarn. In the background is a Sentro circular knitting machine. Not in this image, a pom-pom, which I added later.
polyhedral puzzle in white, with an orange and a black R2D2 model behind for scale
Machine Knit hat in red, green and white yarn, from a Sentro knitting machine