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#justcurious

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Jeremy Mallin

#RandomThoughts
I'm wondering… I know a lot of people on Fedi who run their own instances rent servers. Is that usually single servers or do any/all of the providers use multiple distributed servers?
#JustCurious #AskFedi

I was wondering partly because I was imagining it would be pretty cool if someone built an app on existing peer-to-peer tech that let users donate specific amounts of bandwidth they choose to specific instances. Sort of a way of donating for people with no spare cash.

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Alun Kirby

This is the 'Spreading Hexagons' tessellation, by Eric Gjerde.

I folded it from 200gsm watercolour paper coated with cyanotype chemicals.

It sat outside almost five days.

Long exposure pushes cyanotype blue into a golden-greenish blue instead.

I like how the edges of the folds have described a multiplicity of hexagons.

Origami is cool.

White paper with a greenish-blue hexagon in the centre. Radiating from it are fragments of other hexagons.
Blue-ish paper with a greenish-brownish-blue hexagon in the centre. Radiating from it are fragments of other hexagons. This is the cyanotype before it has been washed.
An origami tessellation. The paper is greenish brownish blue and there is a single hexagon at the centre. Under its edges are 6 more hexagons, and they in turn have hexagons under them. Apart from the centre, all the other hexagons are only partially visible
An origami tessellation seen from underneath. The paper is white and there is a single hexagon at the centre. At its edges are 6 more hexagons, and they in turn have hexagons next to them, like a tiled floor
#blueprint#cyanotype#hexagon
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Alun Kirby

Sometimes you make things for sheer curiosity.

I've been trying tessellated origami forms for a while. This one is appealing as it is easy to fold and fun to play with.

I folded it from a sheet of watercolour paper coated with cyanotype.

It went outside for a day or so.

When developed, it looked like the final picture.

So now I know. Curiosity sated. Until next time.

A sheet of green-grey paper folded into an origami tessellation which is linked squares. a multicoloured rug can be seen behind it
A sheet of grey paper folded into an origami tessellation which is linked squares. it is resting on a window box with plants, and is the same sheet from the first picture
A sheet of white paper which has been coloured mostly blue. it has been creased into many small squares, some with diagonal creases. there is much variety within the squares as to the amount of blue or white they contain.
#blueprint#cyanotype#metamorphogram
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