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Generating snowflakes using L-Systems Code available on the site. Play with Generating snowflakes using L-Systems

The Covid pandemic has meant that I’m in the house a lot more, and travel has been restricted/difficult to say the least. Since I’ve been more involved in video streaming technology professionally recently, I decided to build a project based off these techologies to relieve some of the cabin fever. The World Window shows a live webcam of various locations around the world, behind a real window frame. To change location, you can move the plane around a world map to pre-determined locations (lit by small LEDs) – the plane is magnetic to sticks to the map. In addition to this, there is another sensor that tracks your position in front of the frame, to give a false sense of perspective when moving around in front of the frame. Read World window  An interesting link found among my daily reading

I have an upcoming trip to Vienna next month and might try out this app for keeping a journal of the trip. I have kept a handwritten journal of past trips, but sometimes it becomes too time-consuming to write down everything while it is happening. I like the inclusion of the location feature, too, to aid in remembering the places we visited. – Douglas The fastest way to capture and structure your thoughts: through voice. Hold record, say what you want, and release. Just like you'd expect from an outliner, create hierarchies and rearrange. Notes are auto-transcribed and searchable, but you can always play back the audio. Automatically attach location to notes. Remember walks you took, and which places sparked what ideas. Read Voiceliner via Home | Max Krieger An interesting link found among my daily reading

TLDR; I built a generative art creation flow that is fully autonomous: generating art daily from creative code, and publishing to Instagram and WordPress without any human input. Cool, eh? Creative coding — programming towards a visual pursuit, instead of functional, is a medium that I’ve wanted to personally explore for some time now. I love that it’s a mass of creativity, somewhere between design and programming, which is right up my alley. Read Building a Generative Art Gallery with P5.js — Rich Tabor via Rich Tabor An interesting link found among my daily reading

Watabou's Perilous Shores draws maps of fantastic lands in a handsome hand-made style that understates the growing sophistication of the generator. Each map has a selection of interesting locales—towns, dungeons, geographic features—to ignite the imagination. And various options allow you to tweak all of it, including the stylization. Read Beautiful random maps in a hand-drawn style | Boing Boing  An interesting link found among my daily reading

A curated list of Google Sheets resources to supercharge your analysis, manage your workflow, or build expertise in advanced analytics. Read The Ultimate Google Sheets Toolkit via Revenue Analytics Platform for Shopify stores | Airboxr An interesting link found among my daily reading