#plotters — Public Fediverse posts

When a technology is new, there is usually a “Cambrian Explosion” in which people and companies try to use it in many different ways. Then the technology matures, only a few use cases remain and the rest is forgotten.

So in the 1980s, when devices with microprocessors were the first time cheap enough for everyone, there were “typewriters” that actually were plotters (https://biosrhythm.com/?p=2143) and could be used to write text as well as to draw diagrams.

(Learned via https://aperiodical.com/2025/12/double-maths-first-thing-issue-43)

#Retrocomputing #Typewriters #Plotters

U.S. Coup Plotters Evade Execution in Congo, Return Safely #CentralAfrica #Congo #coup #Evade #execution #Plotters #return #Safely #U.S 
https://tinyurl.com/22l8htuk

Der Anteil von professionellen Firmen beim Sammeln von #Unterschriften für Initiativen ist grösser als bisher bekannt. Ein Test zeigt, wie Unterschriften mit Hilfe eines #Plotters gefälscht werden könnten. Die Einführung von #eCollecting bietet die Chance zur sicheren und vertrauenswürdigen Sammlung von Unterschriften. Es müssen aber #Anforderungen an den Datenschutz, die Datensparsamkeit, die Transparenz und Freiwilligkeit eingehalten werden.

https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2025/04/04/zivilgesellschaft-muss-in-die-ausgestaltung-von-e-collecting-zwingend-eingebunden-werden-unterschriften-bschiss/

Moin!
Ich habe jetzt mal das #Unboxing des #Plotters in meinen nagelneuen #Peertube Account geladen:
https://stream.litera.tools/w/43cGpMwNNCXJD7F5K2KABw

Das Ding stand 8 Jahre ang ungeöffnet in meinem Keller. #SilhouetteCameo3

Moin!
Ich habe jetzt mal das #Unboxing des #Plotters in meinen nagelneuen #Peertube Account geladen:
https://stream.litera.tools/w/43cGpMwNNCXJD7F5K2KABw

Das Ding stand 8 Jahre ang ungeöffnet in meinem Keller. #SilhouetteCameo3

Moin!
Ich habe jetzt mal das #Unboxing des #Plotters in meinen nagelneuen #Peertube Account geladen:
https://stream.litera.tools/w/43cGpMwNNCXJD7F5K2KABw

Das Ding stand 8 Jahre ang ungeöffnet in meinem Keller. #SilhouetteCameo3

Moin!
Ich habe jetzt mal das #Unboxing des #Plotters in meinen nagelneuen #Peertube Account geladen:
https://stream.litera.tools/w/43cGpMwNNCXJD7F5K2KABw

Das Ding stand 8 Jahre ang ungeöffnet in meinem Keller. #SilhouetteCameo3

Moin!
Ich habe jetzt mal das #Unboxing des #Plotters in meinen nagelneuen #Peertube Account geladen:
https://stream.litera.tools/w/43cGpMwNNCXJD7F5K2KABw

Das Ding stand 8 Jahre ang ungeöffnet in meinem Keller. #SilhouetteCameo3

.. the builder speculates about how far away he can be and with how much money, before the buyer finds that the footings have, in fact, no feet, the septic tank is one foot deep with a tendency to flow backwards, and the bricks owe a lot to that most organic and venerable of all building materials, cow shit. The whole business traditionally begins with a plot, in every sense of the word.”
Terry Pratchett; Raising Steam
#Discworld #Plotters #MusksElectionPetition #SubvertingDemocracy

#Plotter vs #pantser We’re getting ready for the blowhard, pushy board Helene to show up uninvited at our house tomorrow, and I’ve been feeling a little agitated about it. So today, I wrote an unexpected tornado (yeah, because hurricanes give warning and tornadoes don’t always) into my book. #Plotters, can you do that? No, I didn’t think so…

#AmWritingFiction #CozyMystery

#Plotter vs #pantser We’re getting ready for the blowhard, pushy board Helene to show up uninvited at our house tomorrow, and I’ve been feeling a little agitated about it. So today, I wrote an unexpected tornado (yeah, because hurricanes give warning and tornadoes don’t always) into my book. #Plotters, can you do that? No, I didn’t think so…

#AmWritingFiction #CozyMystery

#Plotter vs #pantser We’re getting ready for the blowhard, pushy board Helene to show up uninvited at our house tomorrow, and I’ve been feeling a little agitated about it. So today, I wrote an unexpected tornado (yeah, because hurricanes give warning and tornadoes don’t always) into my book. #Plotters, can you do that? No, I didn’t think so…

#AmWritingFiction #CozyMystery

#Plotter vs #pantser We’re getting ready for the blowhard, pushy board Helene to show up uninvited at our house tomorrow, and I’ve been feeling a little agitated about it. So today, I wrote an unexpected tornado (yeah, because hurricanes give warning and tornadoes don’t always) into my book. #Plotters, can you do that? No, I didn’t think so…

#AmWritingFiction #CozyMystery

#Plotter vs #pantser We’re getting ready for the blowhard, pushy board Helene to show up uninvited at our house tomorrow, and I’ve been feeling a little agitated about it. So today, I wrote an unexpected tornado (yeah, because hurricanes give warning and tornadoes don’t always) into my book. #Plotters, can you do that? No, I didn’t think so…

#AmWritingFiction #CozyMystery

Vera Molnár, Computer Art Legend Who Drew with #Plotters and #algorithms Dies at 99

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/vera-molnar-computer-art-dead-1234688785/

#VeraMolnár #ComputerArt #ContemporaryArt

There are two major types of writers. Pantsers write by the seat of their pants and even they don’t know what happens next. Plotters move from one stage to another, always seemingly knowing what is coming up next.

If writing a book was murder, pantsers would be second degree murderers who only come up with that decision in the heat of the moment. Plotters would be first degree murderers, who carefully plan their moves with the intent of outwitting the police. Or home detectives if that is the goal.

But wait. Writers do commit murders as a matter of course. Without any tears shed by them, they blatantly kill off characters in their books. Indeed, maybe the characters lost to editing, might be called manslaughter to get the full range of killers in this essay.

First degree murderers are the most feared. Precisely because they plan. If they are good enough planners they might get away with it and be on to their second, third and fourth murders.

Second degree murderers are hotheads who seemingly demand a high degree of respect. Despite the fact that you seemingly have to tiptoe around these people the most, they aren’t considered the worst by society. That’s because you don’t know who a first degree murderer is and although you probably should tiptoe around them as well, you don’t know who it is you need to tiptoe around.

We’ve all read books where someone you like dies. The real killer is of course the writer. The writer thought they were throwaway enough to not be necessary to the penultimate ending.

With the pantser, you can get mad at them all you want. They will laugh in your face. That’s just the way things are, they might tell you. Life is fundamentally a game of chance. And that is represented in their story.

But with the plotter, you know that the plotter deliberately made you care about the individual that they knew must be killed. It was in the plan all along. If you complain they might take it out on a character in their next book, the one after that or even after that.

So obviously the plotter is worse. But beware, The plotter may know this and always say s/he’s a pantser in order to curry some favour with her/his disappointed readers. These are obviously the worst writers of all. Unmasking them, however, is the hard part. Indeed, all pantser writers may be fiction, brought in as an idea just to make plotters not look so bad.

https://larryrusswurm.com/2023/11/04/plotters-and-pantsers/

#1stDegreeMurder #1stDegreeMurderIsWorse #2ndDegreeMurder #authors #books #demandRespect #hotheads #killingOffCharacters #lifeIsAGameOfChance #makeYouCareAboutSomeoneThenKillThem #manslaughter #novels #pantsers #planning #plotters #plottersAreWorse #plottersMightPretendTheyArePantsers #tiptoeAround #writers

There are two major types of writers. Pantsers write by the seat of their pants and even they don’t know what happens next. Plotters move from one stage to another, always seemingly knowing what is coming up next.

If writing a book was murder, pantsers would be second degree murderers who only come up with that decision in the heat of the moment. Plotters would be first degree murderers, who carefully plan their moves with the intent of outwitting the police. Or home detectives if that is the goal.

But wait. Writers do commit murders as a matter of course. Without any tears shed by them, they blatantly kill off characters in their books. Indeed, maybe the characters lost to editing, might be called manslaughter to get the full range of killers in this essay.

First degree murderers are the most feared. Precisely because they plan. If they are good enough planners they might get away with it and be on to their second, third and fourth murders.

Second degree murderers are hotheads who seemingly demand a high degree of respect. Despite the fact that you seemingly have to tiptoe around these people the most, they aren’t considered the worst by society. That’s because you don’t know who a first degree murderer is and although you probably should tiptoe around them as well, you don’t know who it is you need to tiptoe around.

We’ve all read books where someone you like dies. The real killer is of course the writer. The writer thought they were throwaway enough to not be necessary to the penultimate ending.

With the pantser, you can get mad at them all you want. They will laugh in your face. That’s just the way things are, they might tell you. Life is fundamentally a game of chance. And that is represented in their story.

But with the plotter, you know that the plotter deliberately made you care about the individual that they knew must be killed. It was in the plan all along. If you complain they might take it out on a character in their next book, the one after that or even after that.

So obviously the plotter is worse. But beware, The plotter may know this and always say s/he’s a pantser in order to curry some favour with her/his disappointed readers. These are obviously the worst writers of all. Unmasking them, however, is the hard part. Indeed, all pantser writers may be fiction, brought in as an idea just to make plotters not look so bad.

https://larryrusswurm.com/2023/11/04/plotters-and-pantsers/

#1stDegreeMurder #1stDegreeMurderIsWorse #2ndDegreeMurder #authors #books #demandRespect #hotheads #killingOffCharacters #lifeIsAGameOfChance #makeYouCareAboutSomeoneThenKillThem #manslaughter #novels #pantsers #planning #plotters #plottersAreWorse #plottersMightPretendTheyArePantsers #tiptoeAround #writers

There are two major types of writers. Pantsers write by the seat of their pants and even they don’t know what happens next. Plotters move from one stage to another, always seemingly knowing what is coming up next.

If writing a book was murder, pantsers would be second degree murderers who only come up with that decision in the heat of the moment. Plotters would be first degree murderers, who carefully plan their moves with the intent of outwitting the police. Or home detectives if that is the goal.

But wait. Writers do commit murders as a matter of course. Without any tears shed by them, they blatantly kill off characters in their books. Indeed, maybe the characters lost to editing, might be called manslaughter to get the full range of killers in this essay.

First degree murderers are the most feared. Precisely because they plan. If they are good enough planners they might get away with it and be on to their second, third and fourth murders.

Second degree murderers are hotheads who seemingly demand a high degree of respect. Despite the fact that you seemingly have to tiptoe around these people the most, they aren’t considered the worst by society. That’s because you don’t know who a first degree murderer is and although you probably should tiptoe around them as well, you don’t know who it is you need to tiptoe around.

We’ve all read books where someone you like dies. The real killer is of course the writer. The writer thought they were throwaway enough to not be necessary to the penultimate ending.

With the pantser, you can get mad at them all you want. They will laugh in your face. That’s just the way things are, they might tell you. Life is fundamentally a game of chance. And that is represented in their story.

But with the plotter, you know that the plotter deliberately made you care about the individual that they knew must be killed. It was in the plan all along. If you complain they might take it out on a character in their next book, the one after that or even after that.

So obviously the plotter is worse. But beware, The plotter may know this and always say s/he’s a pantser in order to curry some favour with her/his disappointed readers. These are obviously the worst writers of all. Unmasking them, however, is the hard part. Indeed, all pantser writers may be fiction, brought in as an idea just to make plotters not look so bad.

https://larryrusswurm.com/2023/11/04/plotters-and-pantsers/

#1stDegreeMurder #1stDegreeMurderIsWorse #2ndDegreeMurder #authors #books #demandRespect #hotheads #killingOffCharacters #lifeIsAGameOfChance #makeYouCareAboutSomeoneThenKillThem #manslaughter #novels #pantsers #planning #plotters #plottersAreWorse #plottersMightPretendTheyArePantsers #tiptoeAround #writers

There are two major types of writers. Pantsers write by the seat of their pants and even they don’t know what happens next. Plotters move from one stage to another, always seemingly knowing what is coming up next.

If writing a book was murder, pantsers would be second degree murderers who only come up with that decision in the heat of the moment. Plotters would be first degree murderers, who carefully plan their moves with the intent of outwitting the police. Or home detectives if that is the goal.

But wait. Writers do commit murders as a matter of course. Without any tears shed by them, they blatantly kill off characters in their books. Indeed, maybe the characters lost to editing, might be called manslaughter to get the full range of killers in this essay.

First degree murderers are the most feared. Precisely because they plan. If they are good enough planners they might get away with it and be on to their second, third and fourth murders.

Second degree murderers are hotheads who seemingly demand a high degree of respect. Despite the fact that you seemingly have to tiptoe around these people the most, they aren’t considered the worst by society. That’s because you don’t know who a first degree murderer is and although you probably should tiptoe around them as well, you don’t know who it is you need to tiptoe around.

We’ve all read books where someone you like dies. The real killer is of course the writer. The writer thought they were throwaway enough to not be necessary to the penultimate ending.

With the pantser, you can get mad at them all you want. They will laugh in your face. That’s just the way things are, they might tell you. Life is fundamentally a game of chance. And that is represented in their story.

But with the plotter, you know that the plotter deliberately made you care about the individual that they knew must be killed. It was in the plan all along. If you complain they might take it out on a character in their next book, the one after that or even after that.

So obviously the plotter is worse. But beware, The plotter may know this and always say s/he’s a pantser in order to curry some favour with her/his disappointed readers. These are obviously the worst writers of all. Unmasking them, however, is the hard part. Indeed, all pantser writers may be fiction, brought in as an idea just to make plotters not look so bad.

https://larryrusswurm.com/2023/11/04/plotters-and-pantsers/

#1stDegreeMurder #1stDegreeMurderIsWorse #2ndDegreeMurder #authors #books #demandRespect #hotheads #killingOffCharacters #lifeIsAGameOfChance #makeYouCareAboutSomeoneThenKillThem #manslaughter #novels #pantsers #planning #plotters #plottersAreWorse #plottersMightPretendTheyArePantsers #tiptoeAround #writers

How have I never heard of the Sears Type-O-Graph? According to Ted Munk, it’s a “mini-penplotter typewriter” manufactured by Brother. (https://typewriterdatabase.com/1984-brother-typeograph.7064.typewriter) Please get this before I do. I have no room or use for it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/224615593140?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5338620051&customid=type-o-graph&toolid=10001&mkevt=1

#Plotters #Typewriters #TypeOGraph

How have I never heard of the Sears Type-O-Graph? According to Ted Munk, it’s a “mini-penplotter typewriter” manufactured by Brother. (https://typewriterdatabase.com/1984-brother-typeograph.7064.typewriter) Please get this before I do. I have no room or use for it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/224615593140?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5338620051&customid=type-o-graph&toolid=10001&mkevt=1

#Plotters #Typewriters #TypeOGraph

How have I never heard of the Sears Type-O-Graph? According to Ted Munk, it’s a “mini-penplotter typewriter” manufactured by Brother. (https://typewriterdatabase.com/1984-brother-typeograph.7064.typewriter) Please get this before I do. I have no room or use for it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/224615593140?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5338620051&customid=type-o-graph&toolid=10001&mkevt=1

#Plotters #Typewriters #TypeOGraph

How have I never heard of the Sears Type-O-Graph? According to Ted Munk, it’s a “mini-penplotter typewriter” manufactured by Brother. (https://typewriterdatabase.com/1984-brother-typeograph.7064.typewriter) Please get this before I do. I have no room or use for it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/224615593140?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5338620051&customid=type-o-graph&toolid=10001&mkevt=1

#Plotters #Typewriters #TypeOGraph

How have I never heard of the Sears Type-O-Graph? According to Ted Munk, it’s a “mini-penplotter typewriter” manufactured by Brother. (https://typewriterdatabase.com/1984-brother-typeograph.7064.typewriter) Please get this before I do. I have no room or use for it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/224615593140?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5338620051&customid=type-o-graph&toolid=10001&mkevt=1

#Plotters #Typewriters #TypeOGraph

I did benchmark a function in Julia with BechmarkTools, so JIT compilation is not the problem here.

I only need a good plotting library now in Rust. Don't get me wrong, #plotters is nice, but it needs more love :blobcattilt:

I keep a Youtube channel where I post some snippets of my experiments in #generative art, #plotters, #robotics, #arduino, #raspberrypi and more. Take a look and please subscribe:

https://www.youtube.com/@msurguy/videos

"Utility Programs
for Generating the
#Hershey Character #Fonts
on IVIicrocomputers and
Laboratory #Plotters"
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/TN/nbstechnicalnote1176.pdf

@smranaldi I have used Julia and would recommend it for this field. But I wanted to try Rust for numerical computations very soon. Check out #polars, #ndarray and #plotters.

Sean M. Puckett is an artist who creates stylised and often abstract paintings using robots that draw with various kinds of pens (as in real life pens, not virtual simulations). You can follow at:

➡️ @smerp

You can purchase Puckett's works at http://plotterprints.ca

#SeanMPuckett #Art #Artists #Artist #Robots #Robot #Pens #Abstract #Drawings #Drawing #Plotter #Plotters

Sean M. Puckett is an artist who creates stylised and often abstract paintings using robots that draw with various kinds of pens (as in real life pens, not virtual simulations). You can follow at:

➡️ @smerp

You can purchase Puckett's works at http://plotterprints.ca

#SeanMPuckett #Art #Artists #Artist #Robots #Robot #Pens #Abstract #Drawings #Drawing #Plotter #Plotters

Fisher (of Fisher Space Pens fame) sells refills for #plotters.

https://www.spacepen.com/plotterpens.aspx

#retrocomputing #retrotech