Not enough power when cutting this lovely 6mm ruby red acrylic meant I had to try to knock out the unwanted bits. The piece decided to break instead … le sigh.
The pattern (unbroken) is derived from one in my nerrrdy Bourgoin mini-zine.

Not enough power when cutting this lovely 6mm ruby red acrylic meant I had to try to knock out the unwanted bits. The piece decided to break instead … le sigh.
The pattern (unbroken) is derived from one in my nerrrdy Bourgoin mini-zine.
Some ideas are truly brilliant:
they resonate immediately with
all of humanity. Some ideas
are merely great: in time,
their value becomes clear
to all. Some ideas, however,
are like this one ...
It’s hard to believe that Paul Carter has been gone ten years. I realized that my original ZX Spectrum BASIC memorial to him had got a bit dusty, in that it ran as an outdated Java applet. So I rewrote the code, and put it here: All the Colours We Have (for Paul Carter).

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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