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Using the Symmetry Tile plug-in for Quilt Design

The block patterns used in quilts are a great example of a pattern with repeating symmetry. Using a computer to play with these repeating symmetry patterns is a great way to design q...

Symmetry Tile plug-in for GIMP

These are the docs for my Symmetry Tile plug-in for GIMP. The plug-in can be obtained here. This plug-in takes the selection from an image ("cell") and produces a new image accordi...

Image alignment with markdown

The standard syntax for inserting an image into a markdown document ![avatar]({filename}/images/El_Avatar2.jpeg) produces this html: <p><img alt="avatar" src="./images/E...

Pelican and markdown styling cheat-sheet

A Pelican blog consists of: markdown text files containing content __ jinga2__ html template files defining the pages layout CSS style file that determine how the page elemen...

Cat Scan

The next step on from all the Material Cats was to make a cat on my 3D printer (an Ultimaker original). This required a 3D model of the cat. Years ago I played around with a home bui...