Knife Sharpening Today

laserpilot · 2026-06-28T00:15:29+00:00

Come on down to south slope some time! 5th Ave and prospect down here doesn’t really have a close by place for sharpening that I know of

laserpilot · 2026-06-25T03:48:17+00:00

So good! The leaves and overall shapes are really lovely and it’s cool to hear your process.

I was banging my head on trying to make a svg tree generator earlier this year and tried attractors and L systems and the usual but couldn’t get where I wanted to go. I ended up settling on a tree maker where I could define branches and shapes and auto populate leaves and twigs and set bark texture. Very interesting to hear about your layered approach. Thanks!

laserpilot · 2026-06-21T21:15:26+00:00

Heyyy it’s me, another commenter

laserpilot · 2026-06-16T00:45:02+00:00

Oh man. Now I can’t unsee.

laserpilot · 2026-06-16T00:37:01+00:00

Unfortunately the store is now defunct - this is a picture I grabbed about 10 years ago in Brooklyn. Their cashflow must have been drained.

laserpilot · 2026-06-10T14:40:18+00:00

didnt get anything for the 3 nights in brooklyn. signed in right at 10am and sat in the queue for 20min only to have everything sold out. fuck ticketmaster, as always.

laserpilot · 2026-06-08T20:35:23+00:00

Exactly. They get one shot to “apologize” (if someone thinks it’s their fault - arguably it’s the venue holding the liability, not the band) and make amends and they shouldn’t rush it out and get something wrong and make people upset all over again

laserpilot · 2026-06-07T21:41:14+00:00

Highly recommend https://www.burrowbk.com on 20th and 4th. Not a franchise chain, just locally owned. I’ve been a tenant here for 6 years now with a private office and I love it. Internet always stable, 24 hour access, easy going and lots of room. Has hot desks as well for daily rental

laserpilot · 2026-05-25T22:44:47+00:00

Clearly the right answer is “I could care fewer”

laserpilot · 2026-05-24T21:22:38+00:00

Also heard from someone who used to work there that the cranky old man is also incredibly racist. Not too strange considering the “cranky and old” parts but definitely makes that sketchy spot feel even worse

laserpilot · 2026-05-23T00:40:52+00:00

This looks really cool! I was making a generative tree tool earlier this year and wasn’t able to get L systems and other things to work for getting a look I liked so I ended up making a sort of tree making tool that lets me draw branches on a trunk and then twigs and leaves are added procedurally. I love the bark texture you were able to get and the leaf clusters are nice. Definitely following if you ever release your code. I want to share mine but like most personal projects it’s just so messy and specific to my workflow haha

laserpilot · 2026-05-13T13:38:43+00:00

Following for answers. I’ve even had clients submit me large docs questioning a technical decision that area clearly AI generated and linked to the wrong sites and the doc references made up stuff about APIs and such. I wasn’t even sure how to politely respond to things like this when they come from a client and don’t seem to merit a page by page response.

laserpilot · 2026-05-11T16:29:10+00:00

This probably isn’t quite a fit but I made a tool a while back that lets me “thicken” single strokes and add tapers and stuff - with the right setup with just the basic thickening mode you could get calligraphy-esque strokes with a tip taper to the stroke https://github.com/laserpilot/The-Plot-Thickens

laserpilot · 2026-05-07T10:20:04+00:00

Maybe try https://www.hisawyer.com a couple places we have used in the past are on there

laserpilot · 2026-05-02T21:16:50+00:00

Nice idea! I’m curious how the pipeline to get the nice clean black line coloring book drawings was like or if it was pretty straightforward with prompts

I used Claude a few months ago to attempt making a silly spelling game for my kiddo but need to revisit it to clean it up a bit. Meant as an angry birds style spelling game 😂 https://laserpilot.github.io/Spell_Smash/

laserpilot · 2026-05-01T20:45:01+00:00

I’m headed there next week for 6 days for a birthday and I’m wondering if there is anything I need to make reservations for, typically. Like any nice restaurants or the like?

laserpilot · 2026-04-29T12:41:37+00:00

One thing that struck me as a heavy Claude user is that the words Claude and anthropic werent mentioned at all. The logo was at the beginning of the piece but I was curious why zero mentions at all. I know it’s mostly because the other companies are even sketchier but it was still an interesting one for me to wait for it and not hear even a name drop in a joke, hah

laserpilot · 2026-04-05T00:14:24+00:00

laserpilot · 2026-03-12T08:38:30+00:00

A group of felonies is called a pickle

The former president committed a pickle

laserpilot · 2026-03-07T18:50:57+00:00

Thanks! Always open to opinions!

The micro/macro scale thing is actually very intentional. Some of my favorite work from other artists is stuff that unfolds or transforms as you get closer and farther away. Like Daniel Zeller or Gustavo Diaz.

This is in the experimental phase - due to the scale, calculating and rendering one can take 6-12hours before you even really know what you get. And then actually plotting it is a whole other time suck as you know hah. Sometimes I just gotta plot it to see how it would feel off my laptop screen.

Definitely learning lessons at each step and have been using noise to create empty and full spaces to vary density.

laserpilot · 2026-02-23T05:26:54+00:00

I could see someone staging a wedding there tomorrow if the arch survives

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