I’d like you to meet the newest addition to my collection of Tilda Friends. Her name is Bessie. As you can see, she is a cow.
I was a bit worried about sewing on the horns by hand, but they turned out to be much easier than I thought they were going to be! I think she needs a nose, but I’m still playing with the idea and haven’t come up with something I’m happy with yet.
On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ […] I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
— Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864)
In my first post about generative art, I dumped a lot of Javascript on you with only a basic explanation of how it works, and more recently I have given up trying to explain it at all under the theory that most of the people reading these posts are more interested in the art rather than the programming behind it. Also, including a Javascript course here would make for some very, very long articles!
Progress is being made! This all-American friend is coming together!
Stay tuned!
I’ve been working on a new friend while watching TV.
I’ve had this fabric for quite a while. And I actually have quite a bit of it. I like using it for this one, because this animal will be a midwestern, all American type girl. The red, white and blue spots will be perfect.
I think I’ll name her Bessie.
Today, you get to meet Katie Yoté. She is a coyote character, based on the Tilda Friends Fox pattern !
Her body and limbs are the same shapes as the cat pattern, with a different shaped head and ears. This means their clothing will be interchangeable.
At first, I just painted her eyes. But she didn’t look quite right. After a bit of looking at photos of real coyotes, I decided to paint her nose, also. I think it made a world of difference in her appearance.
Up until now, the Entanglement library has provided a few tangle elements and a few tangles, which you could draw onto your canvas. But real Zentangles have a border, and might be round or triangular instead of square. To make this easier to do, Entanglement now has the Zentangle class. This is the top-level class you should use to define what your Zentangle should look like.
Here is an example using it. This program drew the image at the top of this page:
Yesterday, all you could see was the wrong side of the fabric. Now you can see the right side.
I bet you didn’t guess what critter this is yet! No, not another cat. I am only making one of each animal, for the time being.
Hint: Her name will be Katie.
I’m working on another Tilda Friends ! I plan to make an entire zoo, because they go together very easily! And all the clothes I make will be interchangeable.
In this image, you get to guess what it will be. Hint: you are looking at the wrong side of the fabric.
Did you figure it out yet?
I’m pleased to introduce Ashley, a Tilda Friends cat doll.
I’ve known about Tilda patterns for several years, but since I wasn’t sewing, I hadn’t given them a try. I was surfing the web the other day, and came across a series of FREE patterns for several animals and one human doll, in the Tilda Friends series!
There are eight in all: Cat, Fox, Dog, Giraffe, Elephant, Hare and Cow, along with the Fia Doll.
Recently I did a post about the Ambler tangle in the Entanglement library. Ambler uses an element called a box spiral. It turns out, box spirals appear in several tangles, most notably the Box Spirals tangle. In this post, we’ll talk about the Entanglement BoxSpiral class, which implements the Box Spirals tangle.
The box spiral used in Ambler as it is implemented in Entanglement is very specific. It consists of nine lines, and always rotates counter-clockwise. Therefore it can only be drawn in four orientations, with the spiral starting from one of the four corners of its enclosing box.
It seems like forever since I was able to take my micro art kit to Starbucks or a small restaurant and work on my tiny art journal!
I love this little bag because it’s just big enough to hold everything I need, including a nice set of colored pencils! As a bonus, the little bag will fit in the pocket of my cargo pants or jacket!
This is at The Raven, in Prescott.
These are meant to go under the wings I showed you on Tuesday .
Stitching all the lines, using a stem stitch and embroidery thread has turned out to be much more tedious than I had planned on. I’m going to finish these, but I probably won’t use this style again.
But it does look nice!
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I’ve been playing around with various wing concepts. This is a first trial run of one of them.
What do you think?
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The Entanglement library now supports Ambler! This officially doubles the number of tangles it can produce! Two tangles! Progress! OK, so two tangles isn’t really all that many, but still! Progress!
Using Entanglement to draw a basic Ambler is easy. Here’s the program that generated the image at the top of this page:
const height = 600; const width = 600; function setup() { createCanvas(width, height); background(255); } function draw() { let amb = new Ambler(width, height, {}); amb.paste(new Point(0, 0)); noLoop(); } So how does it work? Unlike Aah, the other tangle supported by this library, Ambler is a repeating pattern in a grid. So, no need for the collision detection we used with Aah; each pattern has a defined place where it can be drawn. The pattern that goes into each grid square is a box spiral. We build that in each square by dividing each square side into 6 sections, drawing a crosshatch of lines through those points and finding the intersections of those lines. We then use those points to draw the spiral.
Pixies need wings to fly.
Making templates and playing with ideas here.
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A while back, I posted a pair of pants that I made for Tuna. I mentioned, in the post, that many years ago, I created a “growable” dress for my oldest granddaughter with some of the fabric.
On the front of the dress, there was an machine embroidered and appliqued “hippie bus”.
Last weekend, while I was putting away all the fabric in the new storage drawers, I came across the first run of the design. I did this as a test piece for the fabrics and pattern!
