Algorithmic Doodle Generation is actually a really cool idea.
Also, Scott, the reason I suggested the Moleskine is because I use my doodlebooks more as Commonplace Books. I find them much more useful an aid to thinking than just doodling. Mine has pretty much everything: sprawling multipage doodles, recipes, floorplans for the house I'd like to build some day, note on games I want to design, little poems, lines of books or stories I might someday write, calculations, lab notes, ideas, equipment setups, notes on bikes, everything. It's a really great way to catch and record flitting thoughts that you might otherwise forget.
Algorithmic Doodle Generation is actually a really cool idea.
Also, Scott, the reason I suggested the Moleskine is because I use my doodlebooks more as Commonplace Books. I find them much more useful an aid to thinking than just doodling. Mine has pretty much everything: sprawling multipage doodles, recipes, floorplans for the house I'd like to build some day, note on games I want to design, little poems, lines of books or stories I might someday write, calculations, lab notes, ideas, equipment setups, notes on bikes, everything. It's a really great way to catch and record flitting thoughts that you might otherwise forget.
Oh, wow. I don't know if I could do that. I have two moleskines, the small lined kind. They both have specific purposes, and I can't bring myself to mix it up randomly like that. Also, I doodle in such quantity that if I doodle in a commonplace book, it would be 99% doodles and would fill up in a week.
Ah, see, when I start a doodle, I use fine-tip pens (.1-.3mm) and just keep working at it and working at it until it's really complex and fills the page. To each his own, obviously; doodles aren't relaxing if done in someone else's style.
Also, Post-it page markers are handy to flag commonplaced ideas worth revisiting, but I'll agree (as a person who likes to keep separate things separate, myself) mixing everything up is a pretty big jump. However, after a while I discovered that reducing all the notebooks I had for my own notions to just one book really helped out my overall organization. At most, I now carry around four notebooks--Two moleskine Volants (one is chem lab notes, the other biochem notes), a red lab notebook (physics labwork), and the commonplace book.
Then again, I did have an english teacher who made commonplacing a graded element of her creative writing class, so I guess that explains why I could get over that initial difficulty in the first place.
Buy a mechanical pencil o a fountain pen, DONE. The more crap you add, the more intimidated you will get, and the less you will do. Also, go for cheap copy paper pads as you will doubt yourself in fancy paper ones thinking that you might waste a really good piece of paper.
I don't think you guys really understand my doodling, so I took a picture.
Do you see why I want more colors, and I don't want fine point? I've already exhausted every possible combination of red/black/blue/pencil. I fill a few pages like this every week.
Just get a big box of Crayola colored pencils, crayons, or markers. It's not like doodles are lasting works of art that will sell for big moneys or be published somewhere.
Christ Scott, this is doodling, why are your requirements so crazy.
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Do you see why I want more colors, and I don't want fine point? I've already exhausted every possible combination of red/black/blue/pencil.
Doubtful, although it depends on what you mean.
To elaborate, what kind of combinations, and how many do you think there are?
Take a writing instrument. Draw a line that starts and ends in the same place without lifting it off the paper. The line may cross itself any number of times, but may not cross at a spot that that is already a cross. When you are done, you will be left with a shape which can be checkerboarded. That is to say you can alternate filling each area with a color, and no area will share a side with an area of the same color, though areas of the same color will share corners.
You can also use three colors. Color 1 for every area that has an outside edge. Color 2 for the inside areas that would normally have contained color 1. Color 3 in all the remaining areas.
You can also, of course, change the color you use for the original outline.
With four colors, and these patterns, I have exhausted every combination. There really aren't all that many since you aren't going to use the same color with itself.
With four colors, and these patterns, I have exhausted every combination. There really aren't all that many since you aren't going to use the same color with itself.
What do you mean by that? Color 1 must be different from color 3?
In any case, the checkerboard requirement narrows things down a lot - I figured the only requirement would be that no area shares a side with an area of the same color.
With four colors, and these patterns, I have exhausted every combination. There really aren't all that many since you aren't going to use the same color with itself.
What do you mean by that? Color 1 must be different from color 3?
No, there are two ways to checkerboard. The two color method, and the three color method. The two color method is basically the same as the three color, except colors 1 and 3 are the same color. Then multiply by four because there is a color for the outline. It is ok for the outline to match any of the other colors. It is not ok for colors 1 and 2 or 3 and 2 to be the same.
I tried those when I first got into using markers (since I love my prismacolor colored pencils so much) and I was very disappointed in the markers compared to others on the market.
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Also, Scott, the reason I suggested the Moleskine is because I use my doodlebooks more as Commonplace Books. I find them much more useful an aid to thinking than just doodling. Mine has pretty much everything: sprawling multipage doodles, recipes, floorplans for the house I'd like to build some day, note on games I want to design, little poems, lines of books or stories I might someday write, calculations, lab notes, ideas, equipment setups, notes on bikes, everything. It's a really great way to catch and record flitting thoughts that you might otherwise forget.
Also, Post-it page markers are handy to flag commonplaced ideas worth revisiting, but I'll agree (as a person who likes to keep separate things separate, myself) mixing everything up is a pretty big jump. However, after a while I discovered that reducing all the notebooks I had for my own notions to just one book really helped out my overall organization. At most, I now carry around four notebooks--Two moleskine Volants (one is chem lab notes, the other biochem notes), a red lab notebook (physics labwork), and the commonplace book.
Then again, I did have an english teacher who made commonplacing a graded element of her creative writing class, so I guess that explains why I could get over that initial difficulty in the first place.
Do you see why I want more colors, and I don't want fine point? I've already exhausted every possible combination of red/black/blue/pencil. I fill a few pages like this every week.
If space is an issue you can get one of those kiddy multicolor clicky pens.
Good enough?
Take a writing instrument. Draw a line that starts and ends in the same place without lifting it off the paper. The line may cross itself any number of times, but may not cross at a spot that that is already a cross. When you are done, you will be left with a shape which can be checkerboarded. That is to say you can alternate filling each area with a color, and no area will share a side with an area of the same color, though areas of the same color will share corners.
You can also use three colors. Color 1 for every area that has an outside edge. Color 2 for the inside areas that would normally have contained color 1. Color 3 in all the remaining areas.
You can also, of course, change the color you use for the original outline.
With four colors, and these patterns, I have exhausted every combination. There really aren't all that many since you aren't going to use the same color with itself.
Color 1 must be different from color 3?
In any case, the checkerboard requirement narrows things down a lot - I figured the only requirement would be that no area shares a side with an area of the same color.
Can any of the colors be the same as the outline color?