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Apr 15, 2016

Taking a line for a walk

David Hockney is one of my favorite artists. Two years ago, I went to see his exhibition at DeYoung Museum. I love his colossal canvases, delicate drawings, and inventive montages. But I felt very disappointed when I saw his iPad and iPhone drawings. In his Woldgate charcoal drawings, for example…

Drawing

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Taking a line for a walk
Taking a line for a walk
Drawing

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Sep 2, 2015

A quick start guide to Pt

This is an introduction to Pt. Pt is experimental and fun. You can read more about the motivations here. This guide will talk about the basic concepts of Pt, and I would like it to be understandable to people who are learning to code. …

Java Script

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A quick start guide to Pt
A quick start guide to Pt
Java Script

8 min read


Sep 2, 2015

Pt

Point, Form, and Space — an experiment By a like law we see how earth is pied With shells and conchs, where, with soft waves, the sea Beats on the thirsty sands of curving shores. …

Design

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Pt
Pt
Design

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Apr 20, 2015

Kubist

Kubist transforms an ordinary image into cubism-like composition. You can play with the web app and get the source code. A few years ago, I came across a curious image made of colorful triangular tiles. The triangles seemed to be placed randomly, and somehow they looked rhythmic and unified. …

Web Apps

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Kubist
Kubist
Web Apps

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Apr 20, 2015

Pasta as a medium

While well-cooked pasta is good for teeth, well-designed pasta is food for thought. When I was living in a small Italian town, I cooked pasta and contemplated upon their forms in idle evenings. What a fantastic medium to capture tomato sauce indeed! Spaghetti often isn’t sauce enough, and Rigatoni sometimes has too much. Variations of Fusilli (spiral-shape), Farfalle (butterfly-shaped), and Casarecce (has a nice twist) are lovely, practical, well-engineered solutions.

Food

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Pasta as a medium
Pasta as a medium
Food

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