Geometric patterns are fun. In this post, I’m going to showcase a particular method of generating such patterns, named pintograph as coined by the daughter of Fran McConville. It is, at its simplest, two rods connected at one end to draw a line with a pen, and other ends connected to rotating circles. However, its mathematical definition is a bit more involved, yet required for simulating it accurately on a computer…
As those who have followed my programming activities for a longer bit, they know I’ve used a custom site generator since 2016 - since I bought the domain and started my website. It has had many evolutionary steps over the years.
However, 6 years later, my mind had changed. From now on, I’ll be using a pre-made, maintained static site generator. But why?
It has been, for a long while, on my bucket list to implement a program that renders from some sort of game/map data. And over the summer 2021, I had the time and opportunity to implement just that. Meet OrienteerMap, as I call it.