Dmitry Baranovskiy

Nuggets

29·MAY·23

Distance to an Ellipse

I had a task to find out the distance from a given ellipse to a given point and my search for a solution didn’t produced any acceptable results. The other way to formulate the task might be…

18·MAR·23

Representing the Sine Curve as Cubic Bézier

The sine curve has a close connection to reality and yet it is very hard to draw in any type of the graphics software. Did I say “hard”? It is close to impossible…

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12·FEB·23

Editing the Curve

The problem of editing curves was solved a long time ago. Pretty much since the very beginning of computer interfaces Bézier curves won the competition for most convenient curve on the computer. It is easy to draw and it is easy to edit…

Created with Snap

28·NOV·22

Polka Dot Exploration

A bit of research around infamous polka dot pattern. This pattern is very common. What I am trying to find out is how dark or light the pattern is for a given dot radius and distance between them…

15·AUG·22

Page Margins for the Rest of Us

I am not a designer. Hence I don’t like to make artisitic decisions. Recently I had to make a document and I started to ask myself, what are the standard margins for the text block…

27·OCT·21

Circular Dots Exploration

This particular pattern sparked my interest recently. Lets do some dissection here. Basically, each circle has multiples of six amount of dots: 6, 12, 18, …