BlogHide Resteemsrubenalexander (69)in hive-148441 • 5 years agoLatest pico9 artI have really enjoyed pico8 lately. Here are my latest creations.rubenalexander (69)in hive-174578 • 5 years agoPIXEL PATTERNSrubenalexander (69)in hive-174578 • 5 years agoPIXEL ART WITH PICO8Today a twitter friend from Italy shared a montage of Pico8 code art and games and I needed to at least try this software. I spent many hours today making new code art and refactoring old code…rubenalexander (69)in hive-174578 • 5 years agoCode Art 01142020I was watching a Youtube video on differential Geometry and learned an entirely different application of calculus and curves than what I learned in high school and college. The main ideas that there…rubenalexander (69)in hive-174578 • 5 years agoCode Art 01132020This wasn't intentional, but I sort of stopped upvoting my posts. There was something satisfying in the past about using my vote power to give my post babies a little nudge towards being…rubenalexander (69)in hive-174578 • 5 years agoCode Art 01122020I went through old code and found a neat lerp algorithm. Two circles rotate and a third chases the previous angle between the two moving circles. The path of the third is drawn with very low (I…rubenalexander (69)in hive-174578 • 5 years agoCode Art 01112020 v2I am really loving the symmetric aspect of the kaleidoscope art and wanted to try different variants on this concept. The next set are drawn with a stylus as code alternates the diameter…rubenalexander (69)in hive-174578 • 5 years agoCode Art 01112020I went through my old OpenProcessing code and found this interesting symmetric art generator.rubenalexander (69)in hive-174578 • 5 years agoCode Art 01092020With the the full moon visiting us for the first time this decade, I would like to post somewhat circular and central versions of my previous recursive code art. I really liked the bezier…rubenalexander (69)in hive-174578 • 5 years agoCode Art 01082020I was messing around with recursion today. The idea is that a function calls itself a lot until some control is triggered and everything is reigned in.rubenalexander (69)in hive-174578 • 5 years agoCODE ART 01072020There are a few algorithms I played with that resulted in the art you'll see in this post. One starts with a randomly selected point and adds it to a list. Eventually the list of random points grows…rubenalexander (69)in hive-174578 • 5 years agoCODE ART 2020-01-05I was messing around with noise and a Grossman effect where previous lines affect future lines.rubenalexander (69)in hive-114105 • 5 years agoCODE ART 01042020Here are some snapshots of the latest code experiments. They remind me of dandelions or glowing stars.rubenalexander (69)in hive-156509 • 5 years agoCODE ART 01032020I got to play with cloud shapes today. Images are displayed in reverse chronological order, but each one hints at a change I made throughout the process.rubenalexander (69)in hive-156509 • 5 years agoCODE ART 01012020I made this to try to practice my javascript skills. I have gotten rusty! I hope to use visual coding to help me practice python.rubenalexander (69)in hive-156509 • 5 years agoSymmetric doodleJust a night time symmetric doodle.rubenalexander (69)in love • 5 years agoPOEM: SIT AND SIPYour words like relative rain come home for a visit No cold spell no inner hell could freeze a foot from its trip Dare I ask of this mental mask that rests…rubenalexander (69)in poem • 5 years agoPOEM: OH, LITTLE ONEWith chaos in his bosom He sows fire into my flesh Thinking that he is hurting me More than he hurts himself I try to smack the fire out But I see a better way I let it burn until He has…rubenalexander (69)in mantra • 5 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.CHAKRA MANTRA 12022019Rooted in the moment filled with pleasure thrilled with my journey in love beyond measure Words spill out into stories and song to connect other worlds and harmonize my own…rubenalexander (69)in energy • 5 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.My thoughts on human energy centers (aka Chakras)When I was a math teacher, my first job was at a behavioral school. Most kids there hated school and were being given a second chance to finish their diploma. Of these kids most kids had an averse…