Always Plotting Something…

Jan 25, 2025

  • The first drawing, a twin dragon curve with right angles in black technical pen on a square white card. The curve is a fractal, that is, it is constructed from many rotated and scaled copies of itself. The area looks filled by a square grid.
  • A close up of the first curve, revealing slightly round corners which are a small effect caused by the pen plotter construction and it running quite fast while being programmed to make sharp right-angle turns.
  • The second drawing, with slightly different parameters to the curve generation leading to a fractal outline shape without the grid fill seen in the first drawing.
  • A detail of the top right corner, with the metal tip and yellow ring reading 0.35 of the rotring isograph pen visible for scale.

Genuary 25: One line that may or may not intersect itself

This is a (twin) dragon curve, constructed following the segment-division method described in its Wikipedia article. Two versions - first is the classic form, but due to drawing inaccuracies there are a few gaps; second has a slight change to the angle leading to no overlaps and more of a fractal outline

Genuary is a month of creative prompts to encourage experimentation with generative art created with code (and, for me, drawing robots).

Black technical pen on white card, 148x148 mm.

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