Fountain Fit

It's good when things fit together easily. Today's Gratitude Item: Being warm, safe and dry on a very rainy day.

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Inner Shine

Weirdly, it took ages to find colours that worked with this one. Today's Gratitude Item: Starting to get my head around regular expressions when using Python. They are in the…

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Checkered Dreaming

Curved checkered patterns are *almost* as much fun to make as spirals. Today's Gratitude Item: An extra, extra long weekend. My school is closed tomorrow (day before the ball) and…

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Diamond Twirl

This one is sort of a flower, sort of a star and sort of a spiral. Today's Gratitude Item: Sunday nights are my least favourite part of the week -…

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Extreme Flower

I discovered that playing with the 'curve' values can improve just about any gradient. Today's Gratitude Item: Not having to get up in the dark. Driving to school with the…

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Diamond Fold

In a fractal universe, this is what origami looks like. Today's Gratitude Item: Getting some fairly hefty marking done. I was relieved that one of my hardest-working students managed to…

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Leaf IT

I'm not sure how this works but every autumn, apophysis randomly generates dying leaves. Today's Gratitude Item: Finding an effective work-around for a tricky, unanticipated problem.

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Ascension

As in 'going up'... Today's Gratitude Item: Winning the 'Computational Thinking for Teachers' contest that was run by my subject association last week. Each day, five CS / logic questions…

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Slip Stream

This one turned out remarkably well. Today's Gratitude Item: My dad's advice. I was feeling overwhelmed by an intimidating 'to do' list. He suggested putting one foot in front of…

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Light Purple

As in lights that are purple. Today's Gratitude Item: That at least some of my student's errors are easy to spot and fix. It is a great pity that this…

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