Mastodawn

#DecemberAdventure (ides of march edition) day 6 (already??)

1. more #uxn noodling -- i wrote a little iterative routine to compute integer square roots (code pic attached -- it's just for bytes, but can be extended to shorts). it uses the observation that if N >= x^2 then N - 2(1+..+x-1) >= x. the largest such x is the integer square root, if i didn't screw up my algebra. i'm not too happy with the implementation because i'm sure there's a way to write it more naturally.

2. made the first piece of #shodo #calligraphy that i'm actually reasonably happy about! yay!

nilay Mar 19

#DecemberAdventure (ides of march edition) day 4.

busy busy, but did manage to find the time to try out a 3-character per sheet #shodo practice. i only had time for one attempt, and the proportions look very child-like, but i suppose everyone has to start somewhere.

the reading (vertically right-to-left) is hatsudayori, and is roughly translated to "first correspondence" (of the year, say)

Kokabura Mar 17

Kyudo corner 🏹🎯🇯🇵
Beautiful calligraphy by Attilio Muni.

#kyudo #kyūdō #calligraphy #japanesecalligraphy #shodo #書道

nilay Mar 16

#DecemberAdventure (ides of march edition) day 1.

a very productive start!

1. refactored the static site generator for the small #mahjong league to reset rankings monthly (and unobtrusively show previous months rankings below the most recent months'): https://squeak.solarcene.community/~nilay/

2. tried my hand at #calligraphy with a small-sized #shodo brush, and while i'm embarrassed to share the results, i can already see myself improving with the basic strokes. the grip on the small brush is different than the larger brush, so it's a matter of rebuilding muscle memory

3. played with nasu for the first time, and made a little mahjong tile sprite. toying with the idea of learning #uxn (for real this time) by writing fun little graphical mahjong utilities

nilay Mar 13

today’s practice… in which I continue to be incapable of line thickness sensitivity (*´ー｀*)
#shodo #calligraphy

nilay Mar 7

Still working on the basics, but really glad I finally got around to learning a bit about calligraphy (this was my first time using a small brush, and it felt impossible to control)

#shodo #calligraphy