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Hey, everybody, I'm Matt. I live in Seattle and teach mathematics at the University of Washington. I've been doing this gig since 2001. I teach our undergrad Discrete Modeling course a lot these days, sometimes I teach our Intro to Proofs course. These are fun courses to teach. Teaching calculus this year for the first time in a LONG time.
I spend a lot of time making visual and sound art, sometimes algorithmically, sometimes not. Links to stuff (images, videos, audio) can be found on my website http://www.matthewconroy.com .
I ride my bike a lot (I'm a wanna-be #randonneur). Some health problems have made that less fun/harder over the last several years, but I'm working on it!
I live with my wife and two cats in a small (by standards of the region) red house in Seattle.
Hello!
@catherinelouis Thank you!
@matthewconroy Loved the mix of order & chaos in Sorted mosaic & the layers in Gravity series!
Going through your blog slowly to read about your recent experiments, great to see your work!
@rasagy Thanks! Let me know if you have any questions: I love talking about making stuff.
Unfortunately, I can't check out your work on Instagram. I got banned from Instagram as soon as I tried to set up an account on it (?); their security bot wanted me to upload a picture of myself holding up something they sent me to print out (??), and I said "no". Any of your work available elsewhere?
Cheers!
@matthewconroy Thanks Matthew, I'll definitely ask about your blogs after going through them in a bit more detail. Hoping to learn a bit more about SDF while attempting #GENUARY this time!
And my apologies, I'm slowly trying to consolidate my work on my website (http://rasagy.in). Will move some of the generative art work there from Instagram soon!
@rasagy What's SDF? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDF
I hadn't heard about #GENUARY - I'm in! - Thanks!
I'm looking forward to seeing more of you work on your site!
@matthewconroy Ah sorry, I saw one of your blogs on Distance Functions, and noticed SDF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_distance_function) as one of the #Genuary prompts. Should have been clearer!
You can find more about Genuary here: https://genuary.art/ — They have a list of daily prompts, and I’ve always wanted to use it as a way to be more regular with my creative coding practice.
Look forward to seeing what you make!
@rasagy I'm surprised genuary.art already has the prompts available! I figured they would just post them one day at a time. It sounds like great fun and I'll definitely be do some - I don't know that I can commit to every day. Cheers!
@matthewconroy
I only ever got to teach calculus once (as a TA) but I loved it. After people have been fumbling around the edges of problems in precalculus it's cool to throw back the curtain and say "Look, this is how it actually works.".
'Randonneur' - I learned a new word today! Thank you!