Matt Zucker

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Why do it by hand if you can code it in just quadruple the time? https://mzucker.github.io/ he/him

Jack the Eastern Painted Turtle is very excited to have a visitor
An accident scene. Two delivery robots and several Philly cops trying to figure out what to do with them
Screenshot of linked article with the highlighted text: “ (I renamed the .py to .py.txt to make sure I'm not running it server-side.)”
The Philadelphia Inquirer masthead Headline: It may feel like 100 degrees in Philly on Thursday and Friday. The early heat could pay off. Subhead: Early hot spells help prepare the body – and mind – for summer, a health expert says.
a weird looking dude drawn in MS paint whose eyes have been replaced by "N / N"
A gorgeous photo of cliffs along the Irish coastline near Galway with a gray sea, slightly overcast sky, and pink flowers in the foreground. Photo by Chaosheng Zhang
A figure from an academic paper about reaction-diffusion Truchet tiles. The caption reads: Figure 7: Screen captures from my Python tiling software: (a) triangle meshing of spherical polygons; (b) initial random seed for reaction-diffusion growth; (c) final texture after growth complete; (d) displacement-mapped sphere; (e) cutaway view of tile CAD models; (f) texture with boundary/vertex clumping artifacts; (g) texture with non-perpendicular gradients at boundaries; (h) alpha mask and (i) symmetric textures used for boundary copy operation.
The same shiny red plastic square reaction-diffusion tiles from upthread.
The same CNC-machined wooden tiles from upthread
A figure illustrating the paper folding and gluing operation described in this post, kinda resembles origami instructions except I didn't use the correct line style conventions for mountain and valley folds and also I'm pretty sure there is no glue allowed in origami.
Wavy maze patterns that form repeating triangular tiles in the plane. Image produced by SymSim.
Screenshot of old-school Pac-Man arcade game
The mathematical formula for the Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion model, a system of PDEs. Image from https://mrob.com/pub/comp/xmorphia/index.html
That same blue orb from the previous post
Square planar reaction-diffusion Truchet tiles in walnut and maple. They have wavy maze textures but all meet up nicely at their edges.
A mysterious purple orb with a coral-like relief texture. Its exterior is subdivided into alternating square and triangular tiles.
The awful CGI Scorpion King from The Mummy Returns
Logo of the Pittsburgh Steelers featuring three four-pointed hypocycloid “sparkles” now ubiquitously seen in app AI buttons
a promotional poster for GARY NUMAN from philadelphia radio station WXPN using the same dumb typesetting trick: it's NGUAMRAYN with every other letter superscripted
The text GIRSA PHMYI CP ADSESSIIOGNN but some of it is superscripted. If you read the superscripts then the rest, it says "GRAPHIC DESIGN IS MY PASSION"
Fermilab blurb with quote: “Understanding whether a charge burst could affect multiple qubits as the charge moves through the chip — what researchers call correlated charge noise — is crucial to scientists who use quantum sensors to detect very faint signals that are possibly from dark matter, and to computer scientists, who are interested in correcting errors,” said Daniel Bowring, a scientist at Fermilab and organizer of this study.
Washington Post headline: Employers to job seekers: Your AI resumé isn’t fooling anyone AI is helping job seekers rapidly apply to jobs. But recruiters and employers say that’s not always a good thing.
This one looks like wobbly stars holding hands, maybe?
It's a blobby green bauble with criss-crossy vibes
A spiky purple and yellow orb with icosahedral symmetry
A bumpy red sphere. The bumps are distributed with icosahedral symmetry, and colored by height according to a dark purple-to-red-to-yellow gradient.
A bumpy sphere. The bumps are distributed across the sphere with interesting icosahedral symmetry and colored using a dark blue-to-green-to-yellow gradient. It looks kind of like a radiolarian or a virus.
Hand written protest sign that says "SIC SEMPER CHEETO TYRANNIS"
xkcd comic of two houses connected by buried pipes with the caption: "a covertly-installed neighbor-source heat pump takes advantange of the fact that your neighbor keeps their house cool in the summer and warm in the winter"
A diagram from Wikipedia illustrating a characteristic stress-strain relationship. As Roz pointed out, if you are a structural engineer and your bridge is hanging out on the right hand side of the graph, you are probably having a bad day
A spherical scaffold with magnets to stick tiles onto
Two spherical steel sculptures with an interesting combination of geometric shapes and organic squiggles
Distracted boyfriend meme with captions for boyfriend ("You, a professor"), girlfriend ("Your institution's president"), and other woman ("Michael Roth")
Marchers near Philadelphia city hall, seen from the front. Many are carrying signs.
Pictures of parked cars on a Philadelphia street. The middle car is parallel-parked much further from the curb than its neighbors. It has NJ plates (not shown)
A tall yellow green ginkgo tree with bright leaves next to a winding path on a college campus
It's the 90s band Chumbawumba superimposed on the Baby Shark video background
Me looking kind of smug wearing a shirt featuring an Escher-like turtle tiling from the P3 group. If you zoom in closely on the turtles you can see they have silly googly eyes.
a blue and orange sunset with swirling clouds over the trees, mirrored in a gently rippling Adirondack pond
"Italian Seasoned Croutons" bag with the added words "AN" and "THESE" added as annotations
Laverne, a terrific and concerned-looking stripey gray doofball cat
pancakes separated and flipped
three pancakes cooking in a pan that are all slightly overlapping
A truly atrocious Powerpoint slide featuring comic sans, mismatched fonts, and what appears to be a cell phone photo of a web page in lieu of a screen capture
Baby in a stroller holding a half eaten pretzel
Outgoing text message: "Ukrainian Church on Fairview is selling pierogies today. Don't fuck around just go buy some."
Pillowcase stuffed with a 20" x 12" pillow, and looking pleasantly three-dimensional.
Preparing a "sandwich" consisting of top, batting, and backing/lining for quilting. There is a neat triangular grid drawn on the quilt top as a guide for seams to be sewn.
Quilt center after removing card stock templates. It is folded on the corner hanging off a tablecloth but other than the additional flexibility, looks just as nice as one might hope.
Tiles being prepared for paper piecing. There are three plastic cups filled with unfinished tiles, and many more scattered on a tabletop being finished. An Elmer's glue stick is laying down next to the cups.
Example tile templates to print onto card stock for English paper piecing.
Solid-color rendering of the quilt pattern from earlier in the thread.
Diagram of floret pentagonal tiling, courtesy of wikipedia. Read the linked article for a detailed description.
A multicolored quilt in purple, pink, orange, and yellow fabrics that changes from a kite-based tiling (each kite is 1/6 of a regular hexagon) on the left, to a floret pentagonal tiling in the center, to a tiling of parallelograms which combine to form hexagons on the right.
The silvery-blue and highly rippled surface of a lake
Aerial view of Swarthmore College campus showing iconic buildings, green spaces, and many trees just starting to change color for the fall
Map centered on Swarthmore College showing locations of nearby universities in the greater Philadelphia area
Exterior view of Singer Hall with lush trees and shrubs
Engineering students, faculty and staff working on car engines in a high bay