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Goddamn islands!This was always the crux of the project. Could I make it so that all the lines were either coastlines or latitude/longitude? (Every 15 degrees, in this section.) Yes, but without the waterjet, my glass working skills would never have been up to it. And that still leaves the foiling, and the more concave a bit is, the harder it becomes. Lots of overlapping length of foil, trimmed to an even thickness with a craft blade.It's all gloriously simple, entirely convex ocean tiles from here on out, though.

Testing to make sure everything looks like it will work for the hemisphere stained glass project. I need to redo 2 pieces of Antarctica, but everything else looks good. This might look mostly done, but there are 49 ocean tiles still to be cut, all uninterrupted trapezoids.

@attoparsec it's only a castle if it's a fortified camp of a Roman legion, otherwise it's just a sparkly…no, wait.(I'm blaming @GustavinoBevilacqua and his mention of French wines)

This afternoon I'm playing around with a paper computer learning tool from the 60s. My (iterative) Fibonacci program works!

I was thinking it could make for a fun little interactive piece to have something cycling through all combinations of its lights following different Gray Codes. And I'd been meaning to do something with a stack light/tower light (used on big factory floors to signal machine states like "error" or "running low on parts") since they're so visually iconic. So I grabbed a cheap one off Ali Express to play with. I wish it had more tiers, but any past 5 get very expensive very quickly. I'll keep an eye on ebay to see if some turn up, but this will do for now.

Aha, I just caught it in the act! It happens when I'm viewing an.image. Hitting boost in that mode doesn't pop up the confirmation. And I'm more likely to hit it, since if I'm viewing an image it's to zoom in and pan around, so I'm tapping around the edges of the screen more than normal.

Every time I see this logo, I want to fill the box with SNMG carbide inserts.

Managed to set myself on fire, just a little bit. Been awhile since I've done that!

I've really got to get a Volstro rotary head for this shit.

I sure do wish I had a bigger mill some days. Just another 150mm of travel, please!

One perfectly outlined wing segment, ready to come out of its acetic acid bath.

@attoparsec I still remember seeing it at the cinema, never I was able to find it

I finally got some replacement tips for the plasma cutter, and I just did more in an hour than I had managed over the previous week.

I had forgotten what a pain it is cutting 1/2" plate with my plasma cutter.

Welp, it finally happened, I've tested positive for covid. I lasted 5.5 years but my luck ran out on the hiking trip. I just couldn't keep up my normal precautions when needing to eat out multiple times a day. But we've managed to prevent intra-household transmissions before, so hopefully those protocols will work again.