I just heard about the tragic loss of Robert Kaye who passed down his delightful personality into his amazing @metabrainz community.
I've had more conversations with Rob than I can count, discussing myriad topics. And I am indebted to him for his inspiration for me to get back into my music collection, with all the joy it offers.
The world needs more passionate people like Rob. He will be missed.
I just saw that Robert Kaye of Metabrainz is no longer on our mortal coil. I only met him once IRL, but regardless, he was hugely inspiring (particularly if you liked chocolate) to open source community folk like myself.
My favourite Robert Kaye-ism: "If you can't send chocolate, you can at least post once a week on your project's mailing list - even if its just about the amazing chocolate you just ate!". Vale.
Twelve years. I started this project twelve years ago, and today I hold the result in my hand. It’s a book that combines bead weaving with math called, “Beading with Algorithms: Cellular Automata in Peyote Stitch.” With help from mathematician and artist Roger Antonsen, graphic designer Zelda Lin, a handful of talented proof readers, and the good people from World Scientific Publishing Company, my dream of combining my loves of math, art, and teaching into a book is finally a reality.
This book is the first of its kind, a recipe book of algorithms that can be used and combined to generate colorful patterns in peyote stitch beadwork in any size and shape you desire. These algorithms could also be applied to other pixelated art forms like tile laying, embroidery, crochet, and quilts. We included projects like bracelets, pill pouches, pendants, beaded beads, and key chains. We also included a bunch of different grids that you can photocopy and color with markers.
Of course I’m biased, but I think it’s a really beautiful book. We included multiple colorful images on almost every page, 172 pages in all. It was a huge layout challenge, but Zelda nailed it. My original goal was to write 128 pages on how to use algorithms to make beaded jewelry, but the more we explored the space, the more we found. Not just millions of algorithms, the space of possibilities is infinite. So of course, we couldn’t include them all. But we used math and Roger’s custom software that he wrote for this project to help us find dozens of the easiest algorithms and more than a hundred more in increasing levels of complexity. We included all of our favorites. 1/2
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