abey79 / sketches

My personal collection of sketches made with vsketch

sketches

My collection of personal plotter generative art sketches made with vsketch. Most can be run and interacted with using the following command:

$ vsk run hline

Some additional dependencies might be needed, including but not limited to:

• vpype-explorations
• hatched
• vpype-text

Though I wrote it, note that this code doesn't necessarily match my standards :)

The code is available under the MIT license and the artworks under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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layers

Quick and dirty sketch to serve as banner for my article on layers, vpype, and the Axidraw.

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kare

Tribute to Susan Kare's iconic work on the early Macintosh. These were my #ptpx22 postcards. Made with vpype-pixelart.

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snowflake

A quick-and-dirty snowflake generator for Xmas giftwrap decoration.

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world

Rotating earth, 280-frame loop I made to illustrate my article on the Automatic #plotloop Machine.

Here is a video of the process:

And the resulting loop:

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warp

Hyperspace jump, 200-frame loop made automatically with a couple of Raspberry Pi, some LEGOs and a Doit script.

Highly compressed/dithered, 40-fps GIF:

Other versions:

• Uncompressed 4-fps GIF here.
• YouTube version at the intended 120 fps here.

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fill_test

Details here.

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machine_typography

17 letters for 17 recipients. This is my winter '21-'22 #ptpx contribution.

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postcard

Helper sketch to create postcards with addresses and a custom message. Very useful for #ptpx.

Instructions:

1. Create the following files next to the sketch script:

• addresses.txt: all the addresses, separated by two new lines
• header.txt: header text (typically, your address)
• message.txt: postcard message, may contain $FirstName$, which will be replaced as you expect

2. Run the sketch: vsk run postcard
3. Adjust the parameters and your message until everything looks good, then save a configuration (my_config)
4. Export all SVGs: vsk save --config my_config --param addr_id 0..8 postcard (adjust the address ID range as needed)

Added Jan. 2023: support for bitmap font rendering using the Monocraft font:

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liquid_neon

Small experiment which combined the neon module sets with some deformation filter that would eventually become the squiggles command.

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drift_poly

My design for early 2021 #ptpx. The config for the 9 cards I made are included in the repo.

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dots

Just a bunch of dots drawn with vsk.point() on a regular grid. Sometime they are skipped, sometime in a different color.

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random_lines

That's 500k Perlin noise values obtained in a single call of noise().

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circular_patterns

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fish

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perlin agents

sketches's Issues

There is no way to stop vsk project

Step to reproduce:

1. Run a vsk project rising "vsk run project_name"
2. Now try to stop the project
3. Observe if I close the vpype viewer still in terminal it is running there is no way to stop that except I have to close the terminal