#PenPlotter maintenance today. My HP 7585B stopped responding over RS-232. Diagnostics revealed a problem with the interface card. Luckily I have a spare machine that can donate a new working card!
And it works! Here’s a video of the HP 7585B #PenPlotter plotting a big arc Truchet tile design using three colors (yellow, cyan, and magenta) on 11x15 watercolor. Total time 1h15m.
Video montage of a HP 7585 #PenPlotter plotting a design of large concentric arcs broken up by squares in cyan, yellow, and magenta. It performs tool changes to swap pens automatically.
I announced the new version of my art code yesterday, and a new slew of solid geometry stuff and hooks to my art shell was part of it. So here's a little bonus treat made with these things:
"large red fish fills portland dodecahedron at center"
Implementations of the Archimedean solids plus a few other fun ones and an integrated better 3D rendering of them. Pens. Hobby curves.
There's also a lot of future-looking infrastructure here (see: "maker functions" in the release notes), a fair amount of clean up, performance, etc. Click the "browse" link for detailed release notes.
Linear Memory (WIP), variations on a theme... exploring the terrain. Impressed by the resulting complexity, considering the simplicity of the system/setup...
Before starting today's #inkyDays drawing, I saw some posts about World Bee Day. So, I decided to draw some dancing bees, even though I drew some a few days ago.
Drawing a squiggly wiggly imaginary creature for today's #inkyDays drawing.
I managed to finish it just before my first at-home blood-draw visit, which was quick and easy. He was wearing a mask, which put me at ease right away.