Shield Sculpture

A variation on a theme which was pretty enough to render. Today's Gratitude Item: Getting to Carey Park (and back again) without getting too lost. Traffic was 'interesting' at times…

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Hole Splat

Random fractal - random name. Today's Gratitude Item: Teamwork and finally managing to make some rather cool key rings for colleagues whose last day at school is tomorrow. This was…

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Flower Net

As in a 'flower' caught in a net. Today's Gratitude Item: A really good day at CS4HS. Am looking forward to 'more of the same' tomorrow.

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3D Lattice

Strange things happened on post-processing. The 3D effect was not nearly as obvious in the original image. Today's Gratitude Item: Having Internet access in my room at CS4HS. This is…

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Weird Hole

Created on one of 'those' days. Today's Gratitude Item: Figuring out how to make bagels look good, even if they are not being covered with sesame seeds. Normally sesame seeds…

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Shadow Dawn

As in dawn in a land of shadows. Today's Gratitude Item: Having time to work on a resource that needs urgent updating. The coffee break mid-way through the process helped.

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Grate Lattice

As in lattice that looks a bit like a circular grate. Today's Gratitude Item: That a number of things on my 'to do' list took a lot less time than…

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It’s Not Rocket Science

I often say this to my students - especially when they overthink a problem. Today's Gratitude Item: Finally getting a problematic vector accepted on Shutterstock. It's a long story involving…

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Rule #6

This one really applies to kids who don't try at all. If they do try, they will eventually succeed (even if a bit of failure is necessary first). Today's Gratitude…

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Do it!

This one is not an official rule in my class. It came close but one of my students plagiarised and then quoted this 'rule' as an excuse. So it got…

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