Bugs for breakfast

Author: David Rutten

  • Fonts for manufacturing processes

    Fonts are great. Seriously. They occupy precious real-estate on that narrow overlap between the magistera of Art and Geekdom. Most fonts are defined as closed outlines, the interior of which is what…

  • ICGG2014 paper

    The 16th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics has come and gone. I had a lot of fun, it was certainly very different from the usual software gigs I attend. This…

  • Illustrations for my ICGG2014 paper

    I’ve written a paper for the ICGG2014 conference to go with my talk. It mostly talks about the theoretical side of things, whereas the talk is going to focus on…

  • My first LaTeX document

    Donald Knuth is one of the people who got a Grasshopper banner animation (january 10th), but until last week I’d never seriously looked into(La)TeX, probably his most famous contribution to…

  • An ethical dilemma

    I can’t quite remember where and when, but a long time ago I heard about or read about an ethical dilemma regarding responsibility and guilt. I think it was in…

  • Witness for the Prosecution

    At the end of the 1957 classic Witness for the Prosecution there’s a brief message to the audience: The management of this theatre suggests that for the greater entertainment of your…

  • Infinity, inevitability and π

    For reasons which need not concern you dear reader, I’ve been thinking about numbers as of late. There’s a common trope out there which states that since π is infinite and…

  • Back home

    After a 4 week stint in Seattle at Robert McNeel & Associates headquarters I’m finally back home. A lot of things were decided regarding the future of Grasshopper 1.0 and…

  • The Hydrogen Sonata

    My last week in Seattle at McNeel headquarters and I ran out of stuff to read. I found ‘The Hydrogen Sonata’ by Iain M. Banks in the local Barnes &…

  • Six most poignant takes on religion

    Today part 2 of my 2 part series on religious music. Yesterday I listed my six favourite religiously inspired musical compositions, today it’s all about holding up a critical mirror…