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Agentic scaffolding: skills for autonomy, hooks for blockers, and a reliability constraint hierarchy for everything in between.
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Creating a Color Palette from an Image
This Spectrimage palette extractor started as a sidecar to image color analysis, but grew into its own feature.
Generating a Color Spectrum for an Image
Walkthrough of building the Chromaculture Spectrimage analyzer that extracts and displays the color composition of an uploaded image.
AI Glossary (WIP)
A quick list of common terms and their definitions, written as I was becoming familiar with artificial intelligence (AI).
Mathematical Moments
These aha moments from my mathematics education reveal a lot about how I learn and problem-solve.
Big Boots Type Design
Big Boots, a typeface designed by Amanda Hinton, is a playful, bottom-heavy take on a slab serif.
Pigment Hunt: Oakland, CA
Recap of an ochre hunt in the Oakland hills and subsequent paintmaking with wild pigments.
Color Mixing: Salmon and Sage
Building a versatile limited palette with quin magenta, quin orange, and phthalo blue.
Ultramarine Blue
History of my favorite natural pigment.
Caput Mortuum
History of my favorite natural pigment.
Cadmium Red
Fun facts on the color red and the cadmium pigment.
Ivory Black and Iron Oxide Black
Background on a pair of natural and synthetic black pigments.