InsectWings
2025
Synthesizers and Insect Wing Pairs
·357 words·2 mins
Wherein the protagonist produces pairs of wings with matching primary veins and mismatched cross veins.
PyGame Surfaces with Transparency
·211 words·1 min
Wherein the protagonist encounters again an issue with blitting translucent images.
A Laundry List for the Insect Wings
·340 words·2 mins
Wherein the protagonist crosses of some small tasks in service of writing up a summary of the project.
2024
More Randomization and Auto-Rejection
·277 words·2 mins
Wherein the protagonist increases the variety of wing shapes and decreases the amount of time spent looking at ugly wings.
TopologyException and Next Steps
·677 words·4 mins
Wherein the protagonist overcomes a geometry error that crashes his program when generating cross veins for a bad wing shape.
Interveinal Regions and Lloyd's Algorithm
·343 words·2 mins
Wherein the protagonist trades a messy scattering of cross veins for an orderly arrangement of them.
Drawing Voronoi Lines
·279 words·2 mins
Wherein the protagonist generates the first cross veins and questions the naming of the remigium.
Points on the Remigia
·617 words·3 mins
Wherein the protagonist places a rash of dots on what he calls the “remigium.”
Dart Throwing is Out of Bounds
·4 words·1 min
Wherein the protagonist fails to reject darts that fall outside of the wing. If you look closely, you can see a scatter of grey dots.
Why Flood Fill When You Can Polygon?
·288 words·2 mins
“Wherein the protagonist solves the problem with translucent pixels then immediately abandons pixels in favour of vector polygons.”