sketch-a-day

coding a visual idea a day

Welcome! My name is Alexandre Villares and since January, 2018 I have been coding sketches everyday, publishing the source code in the same repository that stores this page, github.com/villares/sketch-a-day.

The results are mostly tentative, exploratory, and I don’t feel like they need to be relevant or meaningful on any particular day. The everyday practice leads to the emergence of ideas that I consider interesting, worthy of further exploration. Some of those have been added to selected work, this collection itself became valuable for me, and it is my pleasure to share it with anyone willing to explore coding as a creative and expressive medium.

Please do not hesitate to contact me regarding licenses to use my work, teaching opportunities, consulting or other projects. Moreover, I kindly invite you to subscribe to my newsletter, [sketch-mail]. If you appreciate what I have been doing, you may support my artistic work, research and open educational resources I publish on-line using gumroad.com/villares, PayPal or PIX at 46c37783-5edb-4f1c-b3a8-1309db11488c.

Here are listed some of the tools I have been using:

[Py.Processing] Processing Python mode
[Processing Java Processing Java or "standard" mode
[p5.js] JavaScript library from the Processing Foundation
[pyp5js] initially a Python to p5js trancriptor, now a pyodide + p5js tool
[shoebot] Generate 2D vector graphics with Python
[py5] A new Processing Java + Python 3 amazing tool
[p5py] A new Python 3 implementation of Processing ideas (no Java needed)
[flat] A generative infrastructure library for Python (via Allison Parrish's Bezmerizing)
[VPython] Python + glowscript gives you 3D on the browser
[FreeCAD] A wonderful 3D modeling tool, CAD & more, Python infused.

2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022

sketch_2022_07_23 & 23b

sketch_2022_07_23

sketch_2022_07_23 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_22

sketch_2022_07_22 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_21

sketch_2022_07_21 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_20

sketch_2022_07_20 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_19

sketch_2022_07_19 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_18

sketch_2022_07_18 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_17

sketch_2022_07_17 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_16

sketch_2022_07_16 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_15

sketch_2022_07_15 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_14

sketch_2022_07_14 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_13

sketch_2022_07_13 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_12

sketch_2022_07_12 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_11

sketch_2022_07_11 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_10

sketch_2022_07_10 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_09

sketch_2022_07_09 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_08

sketch_2022_07_08 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_07

sketch_2022_07_07 [py5]

Inspired by Brazilian artist Antonio Maluf (1926-2005)

sketch_2022_07_06

sketch_2022_07_06 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_05

sketch_2022_07_05 [py5]

longer gif

sketch_2022_07_04

sketch_2022_07_04 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_03

sketch_2022_07_03 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_02

sketch_2022_07_02 [py5]

sketch_2022_07_01

sketch_2022_07_01 [py5]

sketch_2022_06_30

sketch_2022_06_30 [py5]

sketch_2022_06_29

sketch_2022_06_29 [py5]

sketch_2022_06_28

sketch_2022_06_28 [py5]

sketch_2022_06_27

sketch_2022_06_27 [py5]

sketch_2022_06_26

sketch_2022_06_26 [py5]

sketch_2022_06_25

sketch_2022_06_25 [py5]

sketch_2022_06_24

sketch_2022_06_24 [py5]

sketch_2022_06_23

sketch_2022_06_23 [py5]

video mp4

sketch_2022_06_22

sketch_2022_06_22 [py5]

sketch_2022_06_21

sketch_2022_06_21 [py5]

sketch_2022_06_20

sketch_2022_06_20 [py5]

From @introscopia's star code at httpstwitter.com/Introscopia/status/1538966209114390529

sketch_2022_06_19

sketch_2022_06_19 [py5]

Frank Morley's theorem demo

«In 1899, Frank Morley proved Morley’s theorem: when the angle at each vertex of any triangle is trisected, the points of intersection of adjacent trisectors form the vertices of an equilateral triangle» @fermatslibrary's tweet

sketch_2022_06_18

sketch_2022_06_18 [py5]

sketch_2022_06_17

sketch_2022_06_17 [py5]

sketch_2022_06_16

sketch_2022_06_16 [py5]

sketch_2022_06_15

sketch_2022_06_15 [py5]

sketch_2022_06_14

sketch_2022_06_14 [py5]

sketch_2022_06_13

sketch_2022_06_13 [py5]

Added naïve poly simplification
I'm happier with (newest) "gradual flip"
I gained some insight on why everything is worse with different radius for each vertex (and it is hard to fix).
I changed the radius reduction behavior!