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More watercolors

2025-12-20T19:52:19Z

Catching DW up on my watercolor adventures - see https://suberic.net/~dmm/graphics/watercolor/watercolor.html and https://suberic.net/~dmm/graphics/unotarot/unotarot.html for more details.

( Cut for size: a street scene and an uno/tarot card. )

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Watercolors!

2025-05-22T23:10:41Z

Last year when I started my watercolor class I promised that I'd have art to share here, and I totally failed to do that. Please enjoy my watercolors at https://suberic.net/~dmm/graphics/watercolor/watercolor.html and find some examples attached below the cut.

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Mystical

2025-05-16T11:29:46Z

https://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.html

I wanted to make a programming language that looked like magical circles. Mystical is more like a way to write PostScript so it looks like magic circles. I'm pretty happy with it, though there's more to do with it.

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Fan Art for Pale Lights

2025-03-08T14:42:53Z

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Elder Race, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

2024-08-11T22:29:56Z

Fantastic short book, told in two perspectives. Lynesse Fourth Daughter is a fantasy princess, climbing the mountain to the mystical tower to request the aid of the immortal wizard Nyrgoth. Nyr is an anthropologist from Earth, dropping in and out of suspended animation to track the culture of this post-tech colony world. The two protagonists and how they see and deal with each other are beautifully written and the translations between what he wants to say and what she hears is great. Also a fine adventure tale.

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Color: A Natural History of the Palette

2024-08-03T13:36:29Z

Just finished: I really enjoyed Victoria Finlay’s 2002 book _Color: A Natural History of the Palette_ (slightly different name in other countries). Knowing where the world used to get its colors and how that changed was fascinating as an artist and her research took her all over the world to interesting places

Examples: “ultramarine“ and “indigo” are about where those dyes come from rather than their actual shade, an often-taught story about yellow dye in India may possibly be nonsense, how (conveniently for the book’s rainbow organization) the discovery of synthetic violet gave rise to all modern synthetic dyes.

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Sevendeck available again!

2024-06-19T13:46:44Z

Sevendeck now available on The Game Crafter

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Watercolor class

2024-05-19T09:45:31Z

I started a watercolor class last week- nothing to show yet but I hope to share some art here soon.

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A symbol for Zoozve

2024-05-01T00:22:42Z

https://suberic.net/~dmm/astro/moons.html#Venus

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maze generation code

2024-02-17T22:39:41Z

Maze-generation code based on the book Mazes for Programmers by Jamis Buck

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Rikchik in Mental Floss

2024-01-10T20:03:48Z

https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/alien-languages

The online magazine Mental Floss did a roundup of Exolangs last month and included Rikchik! They even made their own illustration of a rikchik, though it’s a little inaccurate. I’m in good company though, including Fith, Dritok, and aUI.

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Latin versions of Salacia and Actaea symbols

2023-09-06T23:08:00Z

Many years ago I came up with symbols for Salacia, a likely dwarf planet, and her moon Actaea. Salacia is a sea goddess often depicted accompanied by seahorses so I created a seahorse-inspired symbol for her where the tail included a lower-case sigma, for Salacia, and then applied the same tail to an alpha for Actaea. (Those symbols are on the left in the picture above.)

A correspondent pointed out that Salacia is actually Roman, not Greek. With some input from him I eventually came up with a version of the symbols that used an s instead. (Those are on the right in the picture above.) Strangely, Actaea is Greek (which is probably what confused me originally) so maybe the a in her symbol is still an alpha? Who knows.

https://suberic.net/~dmm/astro/tno.html#SalaciaLatin
https://suberic.net/~dmm/astro/moons.html#ActaeaLatin

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Any empty frame is still framing something.

2023-09-01T21:07:06Z

I learned that from Scott McCloud.

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Tiny thought about an anime trope

2023-04-23T15:18:53Z

( Spoiler for Birdie Wing episode 16 )

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A celtic-knot-inspired version of our house emblem

2023-03-05T19:59:39Z

( 850x850 image, cut for size )

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Moyasimon, still great

2023-02-15T16:25:48Z

In 2010 I reviewed the first two volumes of the manga Moyasimon which had just become available in English. Sadly, the translation ceased publishing after that. If you didn't read the previous review, it’s the story of a freshman at an agricultural university near Tokyo who can see microbes with his naked eyes, and the hijinks of his colleagues and the school.

In 2018 I visited France. One of my goals was to look for manga series that had been abandoned here but more completely published there. In a manga shop in the Quartier Latin I was overjoyed to drop a good bit of cash on buying the entire run of Moyasimon, printed by Glénat from 2014 to 2016. I still love it in this format, though my French is not very good (especially for the technical and slangy vocabulary that shows up).

I recently finished a reread of the whole series. It always just makes me smile. The anime is available on CR and captures much of the charm, though it only covers about half of the manga. Highlights from the second half include the invention of yet another campus festival and the heroic ride of its founder, a ludicrous "Miss University" contest and the later extremely thoughtful festival created by the winner, and the touching moment near the very end with Sawaki and professor Itsuki. Definitely recommended if it's available in a language you can meaningfully claim to read.

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50th birthday puzzle potluck puzzles

2023-02-02T01:26:12Z

Last year, just before my 50th birthday, I had a puzzle potluck to celebrate - I wrote a puzzle and a number of my friends did as well. It's a nice wide variety of puzzles! Everyone was ok with their puzzles being shared so they're all up on my website.

https://suberic.net/~dmm/puzzles/50th/birthday_puzzles.html

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rainbow algorithm comparison

2023-01-30T17:52:19Z

https://suberic.net/~dmm/graphics/postscript/documentation/all_rainbows.html

I added/fixed some rainbow algorithms in my postscript library and generated this image to compare them.

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The Peripheral

2023-01-08T02:59:52Z

Finally got started on The Peripheral - I was thinking to wait since I hadn't read the book but we just dove in yesterday and now we're up to episode 5. Good stuff and I'm looking forward to trying the book once we finish the season.

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Bronze Sponsor of Sedna

2023-01-04T01:00:15Z

I have sponsored the character U+2BF2 (Sedna) in Unicode's Adopt-A-Character program.

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Annotated postscript example

2022-12-06T21:04:38Z

I've created an annotated example of my postscript code, based on the diagram I posted last month.

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Meaningless magic circle and the code for it

2022-11-09T00:27:57Z

( Larger image and discussion of source code )

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Menger Sponge Arcology

2022-04-04T15:02:19Z

Early in 2022 I woke up from a dream thinking "how would you make a megacity like the ones in Blade Runner or The Fifth Element more pedestrian-friendly?"

I have an attempt to answer that at my Menger Sponge Arcology page. Spoiler - it's based on the structure of a Menger Sponge.

More details and pictures at the linked page.

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A self-portrait at 100 (base 7).

2021-12-07T18:31:48Z

d c dc a

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Cherub

2021-08-27T11:56:52Z

A “cherub” can be depicted as either a winged baby or as a creature with four wings and four heads of various animals. Why not both?

( CW: cartoon eye contact, baby, cute monstrosity )

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