court

former @nytimes/@upshotnyt & @mcclatchydc fellow, @newmapsplus grad, kentucky native, etc. 🤟

[court @mapcourt]

also the way my filter buttons arrange themselves on mobile is so satisfying to me! I wish I’d taken a “before” screenshot before I deployed omg

(yes I opened this app again just to talk about button design. who am I supposed to straightfaced say rave to about this irl?)

[court @mapcourt]

okokok i will admit it: i’m into apple’s liquid glass thing. ideas were sparked.

[court @mapcourt]

abolish pdfs
abolish pdfs
abolish pdfs
abolish pdfs
abolish pdfs

[court @mapcourt]

day 27 of teaching myself blender :))

SOO much improvement since february 1st omgomg

[vid id: 3d animation of a hot pink planet being orbited by 3 moons]

[court @mapcourt]

been sayinn im a map girly, not a tech bro 🤟

[court @mapcourt]

vid id: 3d model of a bedroom in which a bedspread falls over the bed four times. the first two times, it is very glitchy. the third time, the bedspread is super puffy. the fourth time, it falls as expected.

[court @mapcourt]

we got there in the end with the cloth simulation

i have a cool slime simulation rendering now for day 24 which i am excited about :))

[court @mapcourt]

day 22 learning blender

def my best day of 3d modeling so far (will figure out cloth simulation and texture maps later)

this is my bedroom!

[court @mapcourt]

alt video description: 3d models of buildings making up a city

[court @mapcourt]

day 19 of teaching myself Blender!! we got map data loaded in tonight. i repeat, we got map data loaded in!‼️‼️

[court @mapcourt]

video description: flat surfaces overlap to create an angular structure. cubes rotates in and around it.

[court @mapcourt]

day 13 of learning blender (yesterday)!

thinking about how creativity can do a wholeee lot of legwork when you’re limited by skill or knowledge

[court @mapcourt]

this was day 1, and it took me twice as long as day 8, so we’ve come a longggg way already 💀

[court @mapcourt]

teaching myself Blender and making something each day of February

still a long ways to go but this is the first thing I’ve made that I kinda felt good about :))

[court @mapcourt]

an evening well-spent in QGIS 🌝

data source: natural earth

[court @mapcourt]

appalachian foothills | berea, KY

followed a joe w. davies tutorial tonight for this first attempt at shaded relief mapping in blender🥹

data source: USGS

[court @mapcourt]

*kenneth field

[court @mapcourt]

increase physical fitness by carrying the kenneth fields cartography textbook and nat geo’s space atlas with you everywhere you go🫡

[court @mapcourt]

more med school grads than residency slots each year is wilder every time i think about it. can you imagine?

[court @mapcourt]

it is v confusing why art is looked down upon as less serious than STEM

learning to draw has been so much harder for me than learning to code ever was

also just stared at my hands for 30+ mins and freaked myself out over how oblivious i am to what’s right in front of me😅