Author Archives: Anton

there are domains and domains

Posted on Friday, 2018 October 19 by Anton

keenspace.com, a free hosting service for comic strips, changed its name (not long after it was founded) to comicgenesis.com; but the old name still works, as do comicgen.com and (I just learned) toonspace.com and webcomicspace.com. Well, mostly. Mostly it doesn’t … Continue reading →

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graceless prose

Posted on Tuesday, 2018 April 17 by Anton

. . . a Kennewick Washington based [organization] based in Southeastern Washington. Not only did someone write that, an accountant and a lawyer probably looked it over before it went public, and no one thought to rephrase it . . . an [organization] based … Continue reading →

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another problem with my clothoids

Posted on Wednesday, 2018 February 28 by Anton

I wrote: each curve hits alternate dots: first exactly, then with offsets pushing it toward the other curve. I don’t think I’ve mentioned here how the offsets work.

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clothoid weekend update

Posted on Sunday, 2018 February 25 by Anton

For context, see past posts in the curve-fitting category that I just created. To recap: The curves I’ve been drawing are the paths made by a point moving at constant speed at an angle which is a piecewise quadratic function … Continue reading →

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second-guessing by halves

Posted on Saturday, 2018 February 24 by Anton

Early strips of some webcomics carry the author’s much later comments. Christopher Baldwin (Bruno) and David Willis (Roomies!) are reposting old series that ended. David Morgan-Mar’s (Irregular Webcomic!) schedule these days is two new strips and five comments on old … Continue reading →

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un-meander

Posted on Wednesday, 2018 February 14 by Anton

Here, each curve hits alternate dots: first exactly (above), then with offsets pushing it toward the other curve. Below is the result of eight iterations. With enough iterations, the top of ‘s’ eventually gets a more symmetrical arch, as the … Continue reading →

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meander

Posted on Sunday, 2018 February 11 by Anton

(Previously: 2014, 2011, 2010; also, less closely related, 2015) I tried to smoothen a stroke by shifting each dot toward the Euler spiral (aka clothoid, aka Cornu spiral) determined by its four nearest neighbors. That didn’t work so well: small … Continue reading →

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