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01
Jul
California quail digital art with a Joukowski transform illustration and air currents moving around the top knot of the quail

Valley Quail’s Airfoil

I had the delightful experience of seeing a beautiful quail family in Santa Cruz while traveling for work. The daddy quail sat atop a bush while mommy and chicks foraged below. Finding the right curve for the top knot was a challenge – Mathstodon suggestions led me down a few paths and ended at a […
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24
Jun

to remind ourselves

a coded poem function setup() { //we make these spaces for creation createCanvas(600, 600); } function draw() { //in which notions of
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07
Jun
Spectre Tiles!!!

Spectre Tiles!!!

It’s so exciting to have the Spectre tile so soon after the hat. Here is the website for this wonderful discovery! To celebrate I doodled tiles of Ghost Jellyfish tonight. I imagined them just touching the edges of each tile with their tentacles. There are 9 tiles, where the odd ones are bubbles. He
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07
Jun
Toggled Existence

Toggled Existence

//we are but canvases with centers and symmetry let aCenterOfBeing; //that hold strands - threads of thought let strandsOfThought = []; //separate
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04
Apr
a map made of montile islands or monotislands

Monotīslands

Using the “hat” monotile recently published, I put together over 20 coloring sheets that will hopefully inspire some to make their own maps with this shape. These sheets can be placed together as monotile islands – or Monotīslands. These may be fun to code with, use in classrooms, worldbuilding, sto
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30
Mar
a mandala of jellyfish with overlapping tentacles

1/4 Update

I’ve been busy the last 3 months, so I thought I’d summarize the doodles and musings I’ve been working on that haven’t been posted (like my puffin, ducky, or quilt). A Cantor Set Poem Aperiodic Monotile Doodle This one is in vector drawing (svg) of the aperiodic monotile. Mandalas Puddle of Stars I
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27
Mar
A monotile quilt with yellow and gray patterned tiles on a black bacground

A Quilt to Celebrate a Monotile

An Aperiodic Monotile was published this week (details are here). To celebrate, I made a quilt with my mom with some occasional kitty input. I put together a quick slideshow of the process (not super detailed, but it will give you the gist of it). Preview of it is below:
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28
Feb
one large puffin amongs many small with the costal range in the background and a title and equations of probabilities

An Improbability of Crested Puffins

A collective noun for puffins is an improbability! I live in Oregon with these beautiful Tufted Puffins (also known as crested). It’s pretty probable that improbable things will happen – just look at the perfection of these little birds.
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06
Feb
three crocheted hyperbolic ducks on a mantle with quilt and plans by them

Hyperbolic Ducky

Got a bug in your code? Is there a proof giving you grief? Did you have a bad day? In the midst of a decision? Why not talk with a ducky? I have a hypothesis that these hyperbolic duckies are the best listeners. Creating these ducks isn’t exact, and the instructions reflect that. I don’t […]
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22
Dec
a hedgehog with an orbiting planet and stars

Winter solstice 2022

Happy winter solstice! I doodled a hedgehog:

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