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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Working on some new generative flowers. Liking the debug view #plotterart #openframeworks

Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Mango Blossoms - 22x30”. Programmatically generated, drawn with pen plotter and then water colored by hand. #openframeworks #penplotter #genart

Personal holding up a watercolor painting of a mango blossom with turquoise, purples and reds.

Close up of a water color of a mango blossom using reds, maroons ands shades of yellow.

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Some quick notes on my findings using different water color papers with a #penplotter using a micron pen and water colored by hand afterwards. My favorite are the Arches Hot Press papers at 22x30". nickhardeman.com/1007/waterco...

Close up of water color paper with pen markings depicting a plant like structure.

Close up of a water color paper depicting the stem of a plant that has been colored varying shades of red with water color.

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Design I/O @design-io.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Excited to talk at futurespaces.com this Friday! Talk info here: futurespaces.com/upcoming-eve... Register here: lu.ma/fs_theo #immersive #interactive

Interaction and The Fantastic talk title slide.

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Another Fish tail palm: Generative plant controlled by hand movement. Plotted with a micron pen and water colored by hand. 22x30in #openframeworks #penplotter

Person holding up 22 by 30 inch paper with a watercolor depicting a plant like structure using blues and pinks

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Fish tail palm: Generative plant controlled by hand movement. Plotted with a micron pen and water colored by hand. 22x30in #plotter #genart #openframeworks

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Tried some nice brush tip markers on this recursion error plot. #penplotter #genart #openframeworks

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

My favorite part, water coloring the pen plot by hand. Testing out colors. #penplotter

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Controlling the creation of plants using your hand. Palm orientation for grow direction, pointer and middle finger distance to thumb for flower scale and open respectively. The branches of the mango plant (first one) take on the shape of your ring and pinky fingers. #openframeworks #generativeArt

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Drawing some inspiration from the mango blooms in our backyard. Some test prints on 9x12. Made some optimizations connecting lines. Number of lines when from > 5500 to < 800. Plot time went from 35 -> 20 minutes (for the close up one). #penplotter made with @openframeworks.bsky.social

Black pen drawing on white paper, an algorithmically created branch resembling a mango branch.

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Multiple branches for the fish tail palm. The end of the video is the output lines for sending to the #penplotter. #openframeworks

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Excited to share our latest project: "Dream Garden" a whimsical, immersive experience by @design-io.bsky.social at The Tech Interactive museum in San Jose. www.thetech.org/explore/exhi...

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Dream Garden - The Tech Interactive

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Got a bit side tracked updating a svg addon for #openframeworks so I could save the output of the 3D model line detection for plotting. The thinning algorithm brings it all down to a 1px line and then I run through and connect them. The lines are then smoothed with Savitzky-Golay filtering #plotter

Algorithmically generated plant drawn on white paper with a pen plotter.

Two images side by side. The image on the left shows a line thicker than 1px and the image on the right is 1px thick after applying a thinning algorithm.

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Code/Art @codeartorg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Code/Art Fest 2025 is around the corner, and we need YOUR help 🎉 Sign up to volunteer and help make this the best Code/Art Fest yet! Whether you're assisting with workshops, greeting guests, or supporting our student showcase, your time makes a difference! ✨ Register: bit.ly/4hDfqWe

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I painted this water color for my brother and received “Real-Time Rendering Fourth Edition” and GPU Zen “Advanced Rendering Techniques” as a thank you. 🤗

Water color painting of a black dog holding a broken tennis ball in its mouth.

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Running the output of the edge detection shader through the Zhang-Suen thinning algorithm ( b & w ), then ChatGPT giving a go at the CPU lines; Each line is a color. Unsatisfied with the result. Going to think of it as way finding for a lost creature. Compression is unkind to thin lined images :/

Lines depicting an edge detection algorithm where red is difference in normals, g is depth and b is color.

Output in black and white as a line drawing with the goal of being 1 pixel wide. On the right is multiple color outlines showing many different lines composing a line drawing of a stalk of flowers.

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Using a shader to detect edges from a G Buffer. The left shows a combination of normals (R), depth (G) and color(B) differences using a Sobel kernel or similar. Now I would like to get the lines from the image into a vector of lines on the CPU. Not looking for real time. Any suggestions?

Render of computer generated flower objects. On the left side is a line style output depicting the edges generated from a shader, with red showing difference in normals, g in depth and b in color. The right side shows the flowers as meshes.

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

This drawing by my daughter resonated with us so I made a laser cut stencil and we spray painted it onto shirts.

Hand drawn image of the words Kind Love with two hearts above the lettering.

Acrylic laser cut stencil with the words Kind Love in the center

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Debug viewing our recently launched project at the Maritiem Museum in Rotterdam with Design I/O. maritiemmuseum.nl/en/exhibitio...

Person standing in front of a projection on the wall. The projected content is an illustrative understand water scene with debug information displayed.

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I first started using CA glue for its wood working applications as a quick clamp. Using an accelerator it cures instantly. It's very handy to have around, most recent glue ups: ☑️ Pretzel to hair clip ☑️ Purse Latch ☑️ Magnet to wood ☑️ Small Figurine ☑️ Earring backing ☑️ Fingers

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Svg from an example in my svg parser addon github.com/NickHardeman... #plotter

Birds Eye view of a pen plotter on a metal top table. The letters o and f are made from various desserts in the plotted art.

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Nick Hardeman @nick-hardeman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I received an A1 size pen plotter as a generous gift and it needed a place to reside for easily making plots. I decided to make a project table and it's finally finished. More details about the process in this post: nickhardeman.com/942/project-...

A large pen plotter sits on top of a table with a metal top. There are twelve drawers below.

A metal top project table with a single drawer pulled out and placed on the top.

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