Peter Gagliardi

19 Sept

I've been redesigning my website lately! Now I have a blog section (including an Atom feed). This gives me a place to round up links to the creative things I make all in one place. ptrgags.dev/blog.html

Finished! As my first double knitting project, I made a couple Halloween coasters (...ghosters?) #pixelart #knitting

The jack-o-lantern is an adaptation of this lego mosaic I made a while ago!

bsky.app/profile/ptrg... -- the lego mosaics I mentioned

Peter Gagliardi@ptrgags.bsky.social

And... Finished! I've been rebuilding the lego mosaics for my walls with new patterns. Clearly I'm ready for Halloween and it isn't quite September yet haha

New blog post on my website! ptrgags.dev/update/2026-... The past couple weeks I've been haphazardly porting code from past projects to prepare for new stuff. Math pattern articles, math art, and more! #creativecoding #mathart #symmetry #spirograph

One goal with this new website is to fold in some of my other programming projects into my main website. This way, instead of a confusing maze of sub-websites (ptrgags.dev/p5-sketchbook/, ptrgags.dev/webgpu-sketc..., and others), it's just interactive/animated content embedded in one website.

19 Sept

At least, that's the long-term vision. There's still tons of code to port over. I'm letting the content drive that process. I want to keep making new artworks and articles. If past code helps express it, then it's worth porting. Otherwise, it can wait.

I also started a Patterns section as a place to document math patterns across art, music, programming, and elsewhere! These articles each include several animations.

14 Sept

Finished this cross stitch pattern of coral! I drew the pixel art myself in Aesprite #embroidery

Peter Gagliardi@ptrgags.bsky.social

Almost there! Just two more columns of navy blue to go. #crossstitch #embroidery

Ack, typo. *Aseprite

Almost there! Just two more columns of navy blue to go. #crossstitch #embroidery

Peter Gagliardi@ptrgags.bsky.social

Wow this looks a lot more fleshed out compared with last week! #embroidery

5 Sept

Wow this looks a lot more fleshed out compared with last week! #embroidery

Peter Gagliardi@ptrgags.bsky.social

Progress from this week! #embroidery #crossstitch

And... Finished! I've been rebuilding the lego mosaics for my walls with new patterns. Clearly I'm ready for Halloween and it isn't quite September yet haha

To continue the theme of making my digital creations more tangible, I'm working on some code to export scenes as a PDF printout. Here I made a mini-zine instruction booklet!

Similar to what I did with embroidery floss, I started the design process by picking color palettes. This creative constraint helped inspire some of the artworks. For example, purple, teal and white screamed "90s paper cup" to me

And... Finished! I've been rebuilding the lego mosaics for my walls with new patterns. Clearly I'm ready for Halloween and it isn't quite September yet haha

I designed these with a custom tool I made last year, Mosaic Slider: ptrgags.dev/p5-sketchboo... It's a pixel art editor with the constraint that there is a fixed number of pixels in each color. You can swap pixels, but not add or remove them.

30 Aug

Progress from this week! #embroidery #crossstitch

Peter Gagliardi@ptrgags.bsky.social

Progress update on the coral cross stitch pattern! I'm using half-stitches for the first pass, this way the shape appears rapidly. A second pass will turn them into cross stitches. #embroidery

22 Aug

Progress update on the coral cross stitch pattern! I'm using half-stitches for the first pass, this way the shape appears rapidly. A second pass will turn them into cross stitches. #embroidery

Peter Gagliardi@ptrgags.bsky.social

The other day I started a new cross-stitch project. I drew this coral pixel art myself in Aesprite, now to put it to fabric!

lexaloffle.comHitomezashi Editor 1.0

19 Aug

I thought I'd try posting a #pico8 cartridge to the official site. I'm starting with one I haven't shown off yet: a hitomezashi embroidery pattern editor! See the link below for a live version and more background info! www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=158...

19 Aug

The other day I started a new cross-stitch project. I drew this coral pixel art myself in Aesprite, now to put it to fabric!

19 Aug

As a creative constraint, I separated my embroidery floss into palettes of 3-4 colors (with varying lightness values). So now the creative prompt is: "choose a random bag and design an embroidery pattern for it". That's more manageable than "huge pile of floss, do something with it"

I made a #pico8 animation of a cassette tape! You can find the cartridge on my GitHub here: github.com/ptrgags/pico...

The inspiration for this comes from a couple places: - @mixolumia.com's Number Lab cart (bsky.app/profile/mixo...) - The album cover from my improv album REW/FFWD (see ptrgags.dev#/album/rewin...)

davemakes🔶@mixolumia.com

I've shared my educational toy, Number Lab, on the Pico-8 BBS for anyone to play with. A simple illustration of 8 bits! www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=158...

The original concept for this cart was "What's an unusual way to visualize a counter?... ah, tape reels!" and it evolved from there.

I made a #pico8 animation of a cassette tape! You can find the cartridge on my GitHub here: github.com/ptrgags/pico...

Yes, you can rewind the tape! (the animation is smoother in the actual cartridge. I'm trying out PICO-8's GIF capture feature here. it seems to skip some frames)

9 Aug

I took a page out of @jenivievedesign.bsky.social's book. I got a pack of holographic laminate sheets to add some iridescence to my art! I picked a pack with geometric patterns as that best fits my art style. #arttradingcards #aceo

9 Aug

@mossworm.bsky.social you might appreciate the little creatures in this doodle! I'm learning that I don't set out to draw creatures intentionally. I just draw abstract shapes and _discover_ the creatures along the way

23 July

I'm trying to find a way to store my embroidery projects (including future ones I make) in a way that I'll actually view and enjoy them... Any ideas? My first thought is something along the lines of a 3-ring binder but smaller. Not sure how to mount these as "pages" though. #crossstitch #blackwork

23 July

That said, I store my art trading cards neatly in binders. Do I actually take it out and look at what I've made? ...rarely. I do plan to set aside more time to experience my own art. But still, it's something to reevaluate. To put it another way, "out of sight, out of mind" is working against me.

13 July

Latest sketch: a screen scrambler!🍳 I'm using some offscreen buffers to copy and paste chunks of pixels. There's a feedback loop - the cursor can select previously pasted tiles! Live version: ptrgags.dev/p5-sketchboo... #p5js #processing #animation #creativecoding

4 July

There's no end to this art. #artisttradingcards #aceo #fountainpen #doodle

4 July

I started this by sketching out the structure I wanted:

3 July

Yesterday I finished making this unusual clock. It lets you set what hour you wake up/go to sleep. Then you can see what proportion of the day has elapsed so far in a visual way. Live version: ptrgags.dev/p5-sketchboo... #p5js #clock #creativecoding

17 June

I've been itching to do something with pixel art. I have some ideas that'll take a while. For now, a little loop. #pixelart #animation #isometric #aseprite

11 June

I made a set of stamps for making rooms and corridors. It makes the kind of maze you find in tile-based dungeon crawlers #linocut #stampmaking

11 June

One cool thing: though there are 16 possible Wang tiles of this sort, you only need stamps! This is because you can rotate each stamp in 90 degree turns.

11 June

This serves as a concrete (rubber?) example of a set quotient an equivalence relation. The set: the 16 tiles The equivalence: tiles are equivalent if you can rotate one into the other by a number of 90° turns #mathsky

My favorite stamp I've made so far is this shrimp! #linocut #stampmaking #blockprint

I couldn't resist... (A reference to Shrimp Miku, see youtu.be/6Y4b25CYkkg)

This week I tried a new medium -- block printing! It pairs quite nicely with my art style. #linocut #printmaking #stampmaking

Finished! #blackwork #embroidery

Peter Gagliardi@ptrgags.bsky.social

More progress on the yellow stitches! #blackwork #embroidery

My favorite book on the subject is this one, Life Isn't Binary by Barker and Iantaffi. This book talks about more than just gender. There are so many aspects of life that get shoved into arbitrary pairs of boxes. Yet there's always more to be found outside the boxes and where they overlap.

And again, Happy Pride! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #pridemonth

Finished! #blackwork #embroidery

Peter Gagliardi@ptrgags.bsky.social

More progress on the yellow stitches! #blackwork #embroidery

In quite a few places the stitches go a little over the lines. This was done for practical reasons since I'm on a square grid on plastic canvas. However, here this is fitting. Being nonbinary is all about not fitting into boxes.

8 June

More progress on the yellow stitches! #blackwork #embroidery

Peter Gagliardi@ptrgags.bsky.social

Finished the white stitches, now I can start the last color! Yes, this is using the colors from the non-binary flag, just in time for #pridemonth! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #blackwork #embroidery