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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 04/10/2026

the feeling of artistic liberation when you pull the code out of the clutches of the machine and make it your own. kind of looking forward to exploring what i can do with this now

an aperiodic tiling in red and green, dominated by star shapes and loops but mostly chaotic looking

an aperiodic tiling in teal and grey, mostly irregular looking but with one oddly-looking floral tiling of rhombi in the top right

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 01/10/2026

A small followup to this post. The appendix contains links for the data and data-generating script, but perhaps more usefully, also links to a more carefully worked out version of the cut_quantile() function than the simple one I used in the post minis.djnavarro.net/minicuts/

Appendix

- The toy data set is available for download as exposure_response_data.csv, and the script that generates it is also available as simulate_data.R.

- I’ve also put together a more carefully worked version of the cut_quantile() function that allows user control over the quantile-estimation method used to define break points, and three options for tie-handling behaviour at the break points, including the two traditional quantile/cut approaches (ties always fall upwards and ties always fall downwards), along with a third “ntile-like” approach that allows tie-splitting to produce more even bins, but only permits ties to be broken randomly (with built-in seed control), never by row order. It automatically detects when the data set cannot support the number of requested bins, and provides informative warnings and error messages as needed.The script itself is avaliable as minicuts.R and it has a brief accompanying vignette documenting what it does.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 20/09/2026

yep, good idea. i've just added a small appendix section to the post that links to the data file and the script that generates it

screenshot of the part of the blog post that contains the two links

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 09/03/2026

sometimes it gets very busy at the zeppelin interchange

similar piece to the last one but with a lot more ribbons; in a green/red palette against pale tan background

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 02/03/2026

making a note here, huge success

abstract procedural art in a kind of spherical shape, comprised of thousands of ribbons in yellow, orange, and black, against a blue background

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 28/02/2026

this one came out quite a bit more menacing than i expected it to

abstract procedural art comprised of thousands of tiny red, orange and yellow ribbons against a dark background. they are arranged in a pattern that looks rather like a partially illuminated sphere

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 27/02/2026

my mood has been so bleak lately, and i resent it when my code makes something pretty

no seriously, my mood is awful. alt text is too much today

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 25/02/2026

i don't know what i was expecting, but okay sure

abstract procedural art in a spiral shape

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 23/02/2026

yeah it's the heavy tails doing the work here. i was chatting about this with folks on mastodon actually. to my mind cauchy has an artistic elegance, but i suspect there's many ways to do it. idk, might make a fun blog post if i get time! the comparison to gaussian is really interesting

in fairness i could probably have accomplished much the same effect with any heavy-tailed distribution. even a mixture of two gaussians would probably do it. but there's an artistic elegance to using cauchy here, i think. when you look at real world scattering (the flying termite wings is a great example, the one i thought of was tiny leaves that you can never quite sweep up properly) there's a kind of wildness to how the outliers are distributed, and the image just doesn't feel natural unless you mimic that in some way. the unbounded variance and undefined moments of the cauchy feel intuitively right for something like that, you know?

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 22/02/2026

i am mortified. i've been writing art code in #rstats for several years now and it was only yesterday that i realised how useful the cauchy distribution is if you want the untidiness in an image to feel naturalistic

a spiral of tiny needle like leaves against a dark background, arranged in a spiral pattern with a naturalistic strew of mess around it

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 20/07/2025

it's 3am. i can't sleep. so... art.

abstract generative art in a mostly-dark palette of green, orange, and purple, with one sharp contrasting light tan hue. as with previous examples from this series it has a heart motif in the centre contained within a central box. the textures are grainy and scratchy. this one feels a little gentler than some of the others

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 19/07/2025

girl it's best if you don't talk

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 29/10/2024

more than a little anxious about all this but ... hello there, lovely #rstats people

'tis a piece of generative artwork (of the ye olde bespoke, hand crafted kind), showing a pale purple hexagon with smudged borders, gently emerging from the clouds. made with R

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