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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 23:16:59 JST myrmepropagandist

   My lesson for 5th graders with the spirographs and programming is going really well. Yesterday we lost track of time, I had to shoo them out of the room.

   But, we were having so much fun making the patterns and trying to get the program to match them exactly.

   And I think they were doing the kind of "math play" I've been trying to encourage.

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     Martin Owens :inkscape: (doctormo@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 23:17:17 JST Martin Owens :inkscape:

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     @futurebird

     We have a fun Spirograph extension in Inkscape, written in python.

     Can be really pretty. I should test the output with the shape builder....

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     Sean Kleefeld (skleefeld@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 23:17:34 JST Sean Kleefeld

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     @futurebird Years ago, I worked at Kenner and did some of the packaging design for the Sparkle Spirograph. I had to create my own designs on the computer because the actual spirograph art with the glitter didn't reproduce well enough. What I found interesting is that they had their engineers reverse calculate my design to ensure that it could indeed be created using an actual Spirograph. (I did have to change my design slightly; I think I mis-measured the inner diameter & had one loop too many?)

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