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wout @wout.codes · 11/06/2026

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Modal with header text "THIS IS A DICKOVER": a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction.

wout @wout.codes · 12/09/2025

Instagram's new “Ad Breaks” make the Android app completely unusable, it's ridiculous. Where are the limits? When will the majority of users say “hell no!”? #ludovicagram

Person restrained in chair with metal eyelid clamps and head apparatus from A Clockwork Orange film scene.

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wout @wout.codes · 24/08/2025

Dark Castle gave me chills, especially this scene. Never managed to get far in this game because it was so incredibly hard.

The Trouble 3 scene from the 1986 Mac game Dark Castle. The player has to go down to get a key by passing a man with a mask, torturing three people hanging from the wall, with a whip.

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wout @wout.codes · 27/07/2025

For a few months I have been working on a new web app. I've had the idea for years now, but it's such a massive undertaking that I never found the courage to actually go for it, until this year. Now I'm designing the first landing page. These #paper #cutouts give a good idea of what the app is about

16 playful cutouts of e-commerce related icons, placed in a grid of 4 by 4 on a bamboo tabletop.

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wout @wout.codes · 08/06/2025

This little guy has been running around on my laptop for most of the day.

The top edge of a laptop screen with a swimming pool blurry in the background.
A jumping spider sits in top of the laptop screen, looking straight into the camera.

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wout @wout.codes · 01/06/2025

Three continuous lines in cyan, magenta, and yellow, each with slightly different distortion values. This is the first finished plot. It came a bit too dense, so I'm going to make a new one today with more whitespace. #penplotter #genart #opart

An abstract art piece featuring a complex pattern of lines and curves. The artwork is framed with a white border and is placed on a textured, concrete surface. The lines within the frame create a moiré effect, giving the illusion of depth and movement.

A close-up view of an abstract pattern that creates a moiré effect. The artwork consists of fine, closely spaced lines that are slightly curved, producing an illusion of waves and ripples. The colors in the image are predominantly shades of green and pink, which blend together to create a sense of depth and movement.

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wout @wout.codes · 31/05/2025

Finalising the second layer (magenta) on this piece. This is a first try and I need to make some tweaks still. #penplotter #genart #opart

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wout @wout.codes · 24/05/2025

We started on a huge, exciting project and there's very little time for other things right now (more on that later). But today I finally got around to plotting a few iterations of this sketch. Cold-pressed cotton paper with CMYK ink using fountain pens and pencil. #penplotter #genart #linedrawing

A geometric line drawing on cold-pressed cotton paper featuring overlapping three-dimensional house shapes in CMYK ink, created with fountain pens and pencil.

Detail of a geometric line drawing on cold-pressed cotton paper featuring overlapping three-dimensional house shapes in CMYK ink, created with fountain pens and pencil.

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wout @wout.codes · 03/05/2025

Recently started buying CDs again. I forgot how lovely the whole experience is. In part the audio quality, but best of all are the booklets. Some of them really stand out.

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wout @wout.codes · 28/03/2025

Just finished Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Understandable that Zuckerberg wants a ban because it puts him in a terrible light. The things Facebook did, and didn't do, for the sake of the bottom line, just horrifying. #carelesspeople

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wout @wout.codes · 17/03/2025

Building further previous experiments, these are quadtrees built with points derived from generative mountain landscapes. #svg #genart

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wout @wout.codes · 09/03/2025

More iterations of the same algorithm.

A6 portrait canvas divided into rectangles of different sizes. Each rectangle is filled with wiggly lines in three colours (cyan, magenta and yellow), with a different angle and spacing per rectangle. New colours emerge because of the blend between the three colour components.

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wout @wout.codes · 09/03/2025

Further experimentation with quadtrees. It's interesting to see the emergence of flow fields when the rectangles get very small. Colours used here are just CMY, but one or two colour components are randomly diluted fifty per cent to get more variation. #genart #generativeart #penplotter #svg

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wout @wout.codes · 04/03/2025

Fun with quadtrees. I wanted to implement this for a long time but somehow never came to. These are configured to allow just one point per tile. #genart #svg

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wout @wout.codes · 03/03/2025

This beautiful panoramic card by @jimmy.is just came in, all the way from New Zealand. Loving it! #ptpx #penplotter

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wout @wout.codes · 28/02/2025

Implementing different algorithms to generate cubic and quadratic bezier splines from open and closed polygonal shapes. Never realised there are so many approaches. #svg

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wout @wout.codes · 23/02/2025

Some more iterations. wout.design/pages/microb...

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wout @wout.codes · 23/02/2025

Exploring moiré in combination with process colours (CMYK). These are just four continuous lines–each in one colour–and slightly offset distortion values, resulting in interesting colour blends. These will be realised as A4 pen plots. Ink is already in and tomorrow the new pens arrive. #penplotter

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wout @wout.codes · 16/02/2025

I really like this sketch from #genuary day 20 so I'm preparing it for A4 penplots. I've just ordered new fountain pens and lightfast ink and I'm looking forward to starting experimenting with them. Still in doubt about the edition size though. Probably 25 or 50 sequential iterations of the sketch.

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wout @wout.codes · 09/02/2025

Some more iterations using different process colours...

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wout @wout.codes · 09/02/2025

#Genuary put me on a roll, and I miss it. Everywhere I look I see inspiration for new pieces. So I decided to create a weekly(ish) work and pen-plot a series of iterations. Here's the first one: “Keeping it together”. #SVG #penplotter #genart

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wout @wout.codes · 06/02/2025

After adding a lot of extra modules to my toolkit during #genuary2025, I'm now polishing up everything. One of them is an Okhsl picker, and while testing its performance against HSL and other spaces, it became clear how bad HSL actually is when using it with interpolations. #colorpicker

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wout @wout.codes · 02/02/2025

A #ptpx exchange card from Victor Felder came in.

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wout @wout.codes · 01/02/2025

Other portraits...

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wout @wout.codes · 01/02/2025

Day 31 of #genuary2025: “Pixel sorting.” The only time this #genuary using bitmap data. Portraits of me (by @mickmichel.com) projected in 3D, and the individual pixels sorted on the z-axis according to their perceived luminance. Thanks @piterpasma.nl and everyone involved for organising Genuary!

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wout @wout.codes · 31/01/2025

And some more sheets and balls...

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wout @wout.codes · 31/01/2025

Day 21 of #genuary2025: “Create a collision detection system (no libraries allowed).” This is one I overlooked. Sheets falling on top of other sheets and the occasional ball. #genuary

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wout @wout.codes · 31/01/2025

A few more iterations...

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wout @wout.codes · 30/01/2025

Day 23 of #genuary2025: “Inspired by brutalism.” #genuary

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wout @wout.codes · 30/01/2025

Some more circles...

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wout @wout.codes · 30/01/2025

Day 24 of #genuary2025: “Geometric art - pick either a circle, rectangle, or triangle and use only that geometric shape.” Catching up on the days I didn't have the time to make an entry. Here are circles, circles, and, again, more circles. #genuary

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wout @wout.codes · 30/01/2025

Other iterations of the same sketch...

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wout @wout.codes · 30/01/2025

Some more outputs from the same sketch...

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wout @wout.codes · 30/01/2025

Day 29 of #genuary2025: “Grid-based graphic design.” #genuary

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wout @wout.codes · 28/01/2025

Day 26 of #genuary2025: “Infinite Scroll.” An infinite scroll through the Y-axis of a stretched Perlin noise field. This was tough since my library isn't very good at animating stuff. It's focused on calculating geometries for SVG (penplotters) and Gcode (3D printing). #genuary

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wout @wout.codes · 28/01/2025

Day 26 of #genuary2025: “Symmetry.” Fill vs Void. #genuary

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wout @wout.codes · 27/01/2025

Day 27 of #genuary2025: “Make something interesting with no randomness or noise or trig.” The individual numbers of PI translate to the number of lines per tile and the rotation of the second layer. #genuary

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wout @wout.codes · 26/01/2025

More long lines ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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wout @wout.codes · 26/01/2025

Day 26 of #genuary2025: “One line that may or may not intersect itself.” One long line, waving in the wind. #genuary

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wout @wout.codes · 26/01/2025

More outputs from the same sketch...

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wout @wout.codes · 26/01/2025

Day 22 of #genuary2025: “Gradients only.” Two, three and four-sided gradients between shades and neighbours on an OKHSL colour wheel. #genuary

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wout @wout.codes · 24/01/2025

A few more iterations...

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wout @wout.codes · 24/01/2025

Day 20 of #genuary2025: “Generative Architecture.” Stereotypical orthographically-projected houses. #genuary wout.design/pages/microb...

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wout @wout.codes · 19/01/2025

A few more iterations...

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wout @wout.codes · 19/01/2025

Day 19 of #genuary2025: “Op Art.” Phantom Figures. #genuary

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wout @wout.codes · 19/01/2025

Day 17 of #genuary2025: “What happens if pi=4?” Running my sketch for Day 5 with PI=4. The hex grid creates an overflow, the poison disk distribution is slightly off, and the OKHSL to hex conversion results in a different colour scheme. #genuary Day 5: bsky.app/profile/wout...

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wout @wout.codes · 18/01/2025

More wind... 🌬️

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wout @wout.codes · 18/01/2025

Day 18 of #genuary2025: “What does wind look like?” Analysing wind. #genuary

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