5 Interesting things week of September 22nd 2025
- Field Notes released their fall flowers edition. My theory is the more of these you have, the more guilty you feel for not finding interesting things to fill them with; thus you end up filling them with more interesting things.
Pentel Sign Pen ; I've been using these to stop myself from adding too much detail right away in my field notes. I start with Big flowing strokes or letters, and then if I need to add more text or detail I switch to a fine tipped pen like the uni*bal Signo .28
The Bridges Archive an online repository of every paper ever published in the annual Bridges Conference on art and mathematics. I haven't made it through all of these, but a lot of inspiration on mixing math and art here.
Multi-Scale Truchet Patterns ; Truchet Tiles are a fun way to make patterns, and in the linked post, the author finds a way to combine different sized tiles.
- Curved Line Jellyfish "simple" algorithm to create some amazing results. Also check out her Build Shapes which look pretty amazing and reinforces what I said in this post about using AI to help implement your ideas faster.
5 Interesting things this week, is a way to force myself to go out and find 5 things I find interesting; hopefully anyone that happens to stumble upon this page also gets some enjoyment out of it.