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This was worth this morning’s Sharpie Hangover for sure
Fun discovery: you can burnish silver Sharpie with a hard, smooth object. Adds a much deeper sheen.
Also, this was the first image I’d edited using Gimp’s new deeper colour modes. I used 16 bit float, and it seems a bunch less noisy.
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nerrrdy Bourgoin mini-zine
All fired up by Natalie Draz‘s presentation about The Transmitting Library at Make Change Conference last Sunday, I made a tiny zine using Natalie’s template:
Fold it, cut across the broken line in the middle, then re-fold so the front and back cover are on the outside. Colour it in!
I’ve supplied it in a couple of formats:
- PDF: all vector, no jaggies — patterns_from_bourgoin-zine.pdf
- PNG: if you’re still all about the pixels — patterns_from_bourgoin-zine.png
If you’d rather work from the template, here it is in all of its 8½ × 11″ (blecch!) glory: SVG | PDF
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all your centroids
As Side Door sign v3 seemed to have fallen off, I needed to make a new one. With access to a laser cutter, I can make really permanent things now, so I designed this:
Yes, that’s a pointy thing filled with pointy things (all without thumbs, you’ll notice) and labelled with Cooper Black. Irony, much? Fe!In order to get the sign to hang correctly, I needed to work out the centroid of the pointy outline. thedatachef/inkscape-centroid: Centroids for Inkscape paths and shapes to the rescue! Well, kinda. First off, the installer had a bug that said a Ruby file was a dependency when the plugin was in Python. So I forked the repo, made the change, tested it, and issued a pull request. So yay, working centroid calculations in Inkscape!
Secondly, the plugin only works well for simple shapes, like these:
But compound shapes? Not so well:
I guess it doesn’t like the negative moments generated by the holes, and does its own thing. Oh well.
