Email or username:

Password:

Forgot your password?
All posts Adam's posts Post Back to profile
Top-level
Adam Leventhal

I was really pleased by this background image so wanted to talk about it briefly. The concept was (of course!) simple: the (in)famous xkcd graphic with the thankless Nebraskan removed xkcd.com/2347/
9 April at 20:18 | Open on mastodon.social
7 comments
Adam Leventhal

Like all lazy people in 2024, I turned to Chat GPT for help. This didn't work out well. (Have I mentioned that I'm bad at Chat GPT?)
9 April at 20:19 | Open on mastodon.social
Adam Leventhal

I should mention that we don't put a ton of time into Oxide and Friends (sorry!) so I try to bound these side-quests at least somewhat. Somewhat. I decided to find a physics simulator (like a lunatic) and SimPHY was the first one I stumbled onto that worked well enough. I roughed out the structure from the xkcd comic:
9 April at 20:22 | Open on mastodon.social
Adam Leventhal

Then removed the linchpin:
9 April at 20:22 | Open on mastodon.social
Adam Leventhal
Adam Leventhal

Until I got to something that was suitably calamitous:
9 April at 20:23 | Open on mastodon.social
Adam Leventhal

I threw it on the iPad that I "borrowed" from my older son and traced it in Procreate with his Apple Pencil. 100% it could have been better, but I already felt like a crazy person and wasn't sure it was going to work out
9 April at 20:26 | Open on mastodon.social
Adam Leventhal

Then I threw the lines into Photoshop, applied the bucket tool, and ... good enough!
9 April at 20:27 | Open on mastodon.social
Go Up