Matt Henderson

Music from Knots

Which Pokémon does a compression algorithm think are most similar? bzip pairs Gengar with Haunter, Magikarp with Gyarados and Pikachu with Jolteon. 13 different Pokémon get paired with Marowak- it's a very average sprite..

The bzip Pokédex Starting at Charmander, then repeatedly picking the closest remaining Pokémon

Which Pokémon does a compression algorithm think are most similar? bzip pairs Gengar with Haunter, Magikarp with Gyarados and Pikachu with Jolteon. 13 different Pokémon get paired with Marowak- it's a very average sprite..

zipping some files

Every game of naughts and crosses (tic tac toe)

Coloured by end state

Every game of naughts and crosses (tic tac toe)

Stereographic Rubik’s

Rubik’s World

Stereographic Rubik’s

Visualising the distribution of substrings in the genomes of different organisms. Going up to depth eight by recursively splitting into quadrants, we get these fractal-like pictures.

Primes

Visualising the distribution of substrings in the genomes of different organisms. Going up to depth eight by recursively splitting into quadrants, we get these fractal-like pictures.

Gallery of the final heatmaps. Humans pretty indistinguishable from chickens in this view!

this 9,076 character regex matches all 4,030 4 letter words in the Scrabble dictionary - and nothing else. Those words would add up to 16,120 characters total.

can you build a shorter regex that does the same job? here's the word list and the above pattern: gist.github.com/matthen/1626...

every (convex) quadrilateral is a square- if you view it from the right perspective

Repeatedly subdividing a triangle using its centroids

tiling

Repeatedly subdividing a triangle using its centroids

deep render

How to make an ellipse, using sand and physics

Original inspiration! @divbyzero.bsky.social

How to make an ellipse, using sand and physics

Dragon wave