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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 02/09/2026

More from modeling natural systems book group at work. gist.github.com/sampottinger...

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 19/08/2026

More sketching at work. gist.github.com/sampottinger...

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 05/08/2026

More fun with the simulating natural systems book club at work. Code at gist.github.com/sampottinger...

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 29/07/2026

Fun times with Nature of Code at work. In Sketchingpy, gist.github.com/sampottinger...

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 09/01/2025

Getting examples ready to teach my upcoming interactive data science / data visualization course (interactivedatascience.courses). Can’t wait to see you soon Berkeley! #creativeCoding

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 04/11/2024

Happy Monday … sending some calm as you start your week. #pixelart

Picture of a beach with soft waves. A bird and some dolphins are visible in the distance.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 29/10/2024

In the middle of papers so there hasn’t been any new viz for a while but here’s my dog at the beach. #pixelart #art

Little white dog at a beach with hills and whales in distance. Calm waves washing up on shore.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 08/02/2024

#pixelart for when you have ceramics that need to go places

White plane with blue stripes. A pilot sits in front with pots in the back. A wind sock is seen in the background in front of a hill.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 23/12/2023

Pixel art for the recent rain in SF …

Dog looking at a large bone in a glass container on top of a counter. In the background there is a tree sitting in the rain.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 01/12/2023

Good night blue sky. Hope I got the colors ok… I’m color blind so try my best. I didn’t check too many of these afterwards.

Witch reading a book late at night with a black cat in the background.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 29/11/2023

High five! More pixel art side quest.

A man with brown skin kneeling to touch his hand to a small white dog’s paw. The dog stands on their hind legs. The two are in a mountainous area with the sky visible in the background.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 26/11/2023

A little pixel art side quest

Two men (one brown, one white) and a white dog in a park in front of Sutro Tower looking at a crow in a tree.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 16/11/2023

Goodnight creative coding blues sky. 🌗 Open source at gleap.org/plant/eclipse

A near black celestial body shining on another larger dark gray body. Both have off white particles emerging from their centers. The dark gray body has dark grey specs in its orbit while the smaller near black body has white specs in its orbit.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 11/11/2023

Doodling and putting off work. Open source at gleap.org/plant/balance. Dear creative coding bluesky, I hope you are having a chill evening / morning to start the weekend.

Two abstract figures that look spirit-like reaching towards each other inside circles made up of lines and smaller circles.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 23/10/2023

Good night creative coding bluesky. Hopefully Monday brings good things. Open source at gleap.org/plant/wheat

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 24/09/2023

Good afternoon happy Sunday. Some doodling in code while listening to Japanese Breakfast. The randomness produces kinda different variations on the vibe each time. Open source at gleap.org/plant/spotted.

Plant with wave like stems emanating from a point, reaching up from a green dotted ground to a blue dotted sky which may appear as to be if underwater.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 11/09/2023

A little sketch listening to Gregory Alan Isakov. Been a while since I made a plant in plant lang. Anyway, open source at gleap.org/plant/bouquet. Good night creative coding bluesky.

Blank and white picture of plant that looks like it is made up of small brush strokes. Vaguely looks like a bouquet.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 07/09/2023

Good night creative coding blue sky! Doodling at gleap.org/plant/darksky. More ominous than I anticipated.

Mountain shooting up into dark clouds with a blue line at the top.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 04/09/2023

Playing around with the Monty Hall Problem with curious family members on a holiday. In case you want to join in on the fun, I made a small open source simulator at codepen.io/sampottinger.... Impress your friends and loved ones.

Screenshot of a simulation of the Monty Hall problem showing those who change doors do better.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 04/09/2023

Repost a picture of the first game you remember playing… Oh man running through batteries on the gameboy. (Thanks mobygames for screenshot.)

Screenshot of professor oak in Pokémon 1 saying it is unsafe Pokémon live in tall grass

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 03/09/2023

Good night creative coding bluesky. Open source at gleap.org/plant/telesc....

Telescope with an arc-like piece towards the top looking at a star where the image is made up of small dots.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 02/09/2023

Good morning creative coding bluesky! Open source at gleap.org/plant/sail.

A sailboat-like figure inside a circle made of dots inside a circle made of plant-like structures.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 31/08/2023

Good evening creative coding bluesky 🌘. A little sketch. Open source at gleap.org/plant/ripple.

Two sets of almost closed circles with small lines emanating out from each.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 27/08/2023

Goodnight creative coding bluesky! Open source at gleap.org/plant/ivy.

A wall of rectangles in a green color from which lighter gray rectangles are emitting.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 26/08/2023

Good morning! It’s been a bit. Here’s a little creative coding sketch for art friends. Open source at gleap.org/plant/whirlp...

Four overlapping circular structures each made up of a spiral.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 04/07/2023

Good night creative coding bluesky. Here’s some open source trees 🌲 🌒 - code at gleap.org/plant/trees

5 different colored overlapping trees with branches on the top and bottom all arranged in a circle

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 19/06/2023

Good night creative coding blue sky. 🌘 open source code at gleap.org/plant/hexagon

Black hexagon with colored lines emanating outwards.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 09/06/2023

Good night creative coding bluesky. Here’s some evening colors. Open source at gleap.org/plant/prop

Three overlapping circles which are a mix of white and either red, green, or blue.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 29/05/2023

Good night creative coding bluesky 🌓- open source code at gleap.org/plant/wings

Spiral of green behind a circle of blue and red.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 26/05/2023

New example for our geospatial visualization micro-library for Processing! Here’s an app displaying BART ridership in the Bay Area: github.com/SchmidtDSE/bart-ridershi…

BART ridership visualization highlighting SFO

BART ridership visualization highlighting San Jose

BART ridership visualization showing all journeys

BART ridership visualization showing population and highlighting Dublin / Pleasanton

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 25/05/2023

Hello! Here’s two recent sketches.

Circle with blue, green, and red sections made of small lines.

Fractal leaning to the left and bottom with different repeated components in different colors.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 25/05/2023

It’s better animated but… good night creative coding bluesky! Open source (and animated) at gleap.org/plant/colorrectflower

Multi-colored flower with the flower bunched up

Multi-color flower with the flower spread out.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 24/05/2023

Not a lot to share this evening but here’s a quick sketch. 🌕 Good night creative coding bluesky. Open source code: gleap.org/plant/colorwheel

Circle with regions of red, green, and blue

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 23/05/2023

Not a lot of time today so revisiting last night’s with color. Open source code: gleap.org/plant/colorshine. Anyway, good night creative coding bluesky! 🌙🌈

Fractal with different colors that leans to the left and bottom.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 22/05/2023

Good night creative coding bluesky 🌙. Code at gleap.org/plant/shine.

$A fractal that leans to the right and bottom.$

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 21/05/2023

Goodnight friends. 🌑 code at gleap.org/plant/moon

White circle inside blueish circle made of lines of differing width.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 20/05/2023

Goodnight blue sky. 🌙🌧️ Keeping it simple today. Code at gleap.org/plant/rain

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 17/05/2023

Evening bluesky! Code: gleap.org/plant/mixing

Three overlapping spiral-like shapes of red, blue, and green inside a black circle with an off-white circle in the middle.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 15/05/2023

Sleep well creative coding bluesky. Open source at gleap.org/plant/sweep

Multi-colored plant bending over with lots of lines off a spine.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 14/05/2023

Good evening creative coding bluesky! A little sketch. Code at gleap.org/plant/colors

Three tree like structures in a circle with one green, one blue, and one red.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 04/05/2023

Good evening data viz bluesky! Just updated an old visualization project at incomegaps.com which looks at various dimensions of income inequality. With fresh new data, sadly most overall trends still stay the same. :( Still, open data / code at: github.com/sampottinger/incomegaps

Screenshot of the income gaps application showing income inequality by race / ethnicity.

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 02/05/2023

Our lab acquired this beauty today. It feels like a hug from an old friend. I wish Ben was on bluesky to experience it (also the joy that most of the code in here I think still runs).

Picture of a book titled Processing: A Programing Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists

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Sam Pottinger @sampottinger.com · 02/05/2023

Morning creative coding bluesky! Hopefully some data visualization soon but one more sketch. Animated version / open source code at gleap.org/plant/spinningstar.

Editor showing some code next to a star-like structure.

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