I’m a fan of code aided design and really appreciate the effort and creativity in what you have done here. without an extensive background in geometry, I sometimes wonder how one could find neat concepts like the Lissajous curves that have a near direct applicability to graphic design ?
If you poke around the field of "creative computing" you'll see a lot of the same examples being used. In this particular case you want to look at parametric equations / parametric curves.
For this particular brand, we spent a lot of time looking at nature, specifically fungal networks / mycelium etc. We also looked at fractals and other items in nature that have a specific mathematical quality to them. Pretty much anything in nature that has some level of symmetry or predictability to it can probably be recreated with math. These curves originally came from us looking at harmony / harmonics in music.
Wikipedia is a great wormhole for ideation because you'll be looking at one thing and discover something equally amazing just clicking around the article.
Very fun to see this here ! I've been to Bordier's shop in St Malo, they do make lovely butter. If you know a bit about France and Brittany, you'll know that "les bretons" are very much fond of their butter. Check out how they make the famous kouign amann and if you get a chance, do have a taste if the quantities of sugar and butter don't put you off ;-)
Even as a "Normand", I have to agree that this indeed lovely butter ;)
To give a bit of context, Bordier is considered very high-end/premium butter that you find mostly at cheesemongers (the large ones you see in the video, they get cut on demand) and Michelin star restaurants (the small cones for example). It's not particularly cheap, but unless you have a local small farm around (doing it the old way, which is probably not much of a thing), it's about as good as butter can get.
I stumbled upon that video a few days ago and was a bit surprised that even their "standardised" products (the "plaquettes", aka the rectangles you'll see around the end with striations on them) were still shaped manually.
Before I moved away three years ago, I used to get kouign-amann at Peet's coffee stores outside the immediate Bay Area. I don't know what the situation is now.
The three basic butters would be "doux" (unsalted), "demi-sel" and "salé" although the latter does seem to be harder to find in your run-of-the-mill markets and epiceries outside of Brittany.
You might find this helpful : https://bezier.method.ac/ although I wouldn’t spend too much time on it. Rather, you should try to find some YouTube videos that show you how to produce the general style of art you are specifically trying to create. You might find some more advanced tips and tricks other than the quite narrow drag and click techniques this tool will help you with.
I can second this - drag and click is not always necessary. If I am really in a pinch and I need to do stuff directly with beziers I try to 1) stylize the desired curve so that it uses as few control points as possible, and, 2) redraw on top of early attempts instead of editing existing curves.
Looks interesting ! I'm currently building a webapp on Supabase and have been considering Retool for admin purposes. What would this offer over something like Retool ? Do you offer specific features tailored to Supabase in order to make the integration easier or do you simply treat it as an ordinary PostgreSQL DB ?
Motor Admin uses PG instead of Supabase API for better performance, ease of use and enhanced features.
It has several advantages comparing to Retool like simple self-hosting option, CRUD UI out of the box, periodical data reports (aka alerts), unified UI optimized on mobile (instead of retool's more complex UI builder).
You scenario is conceptually close to the Liar cycles explained in paragraph 1.3 of the article. But what makes the crux of the paradox is the referential « pointing » between each statement which is a feature lacking in your example.
There's a bit of a rabbit hole to go down about the question of ages in Genesis, touching on some neat topics such as Base-60 counting systems used by ancient Sumerian civilizations. Here's a nice start : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoPbZnRN8xQ
