{"$schema":"https://ejfox.com/schema/page-twin@1.json","kind":"blog_post","url":"https://ejfox.com/blog/week-notes/2024-18","json_url":"https://ejfox.com/blog/week-notes/2024-18.json","generator":"ejfox.com/json-twin@1","data":{"cacheVersion":"2026-05-13-gear-cards","html":"<h2 class=\"\" id=\"overview-of-the-week\">Overview of the Week</h2>\n<ul class=\"list-disc\">\n<li class=\"\"></li>\n</ul>\n<h2 class=\"\" id=\"projects-worked-on\">Projects Worked On</h2>\n<ul class=\"list-disc\">\n<li class=\"\">Worked a bunch on my Scrapbook project, particularly finding UUID/hashes I can use for scraps from multiple services</li>\n<li class=\"\">Added 2 new views to the scrapbook part of my website: graph and cards</li>\n<li class=\"\">Added an “art mode” to my daily dashboard project</li>\n</ul>\n<h2 class=\"\" id=\"creative-endeavors\">Creative Endeavors</h2>\n<h3 class=\"\" id=\"cyberpunk-visual-aesthetic\">Cyberpunk Visual Aesthetic</h3>\n<p class=\"\">Looking more into a cyberpunk aesthetic, gathering visual inspiration <a href=\"https://www.are.na/ej-fox/cyberpunk-2zwvyihuauk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"external-link group inline-flex items-center text-blue-600 dark:text-blue-400\" data-preview-url=\"https://www.are.na/ej-fox/cyberpunk-2zwvyihuauk\">https://www.are.na/ej-fox/cyberpunk-2zwvyihuauk</a></p>\n<p class=\"\">Playing around with different techniques in After Effects, building stacks of glow, motion blur, bulge distortion, mosaic pixelation, and randomizing parameters so it has an unexpected generative feel.</p>\n<h3 class=\"\" id=\"hudson-valley-exploration\">Hudson Valley Exploration</h3>\n<p class=\"\">I downloaded Digital Elevation Model TIFFs of the Hudson Valley, combined them all together in QGIS, and then played around a bit with generating contour maps from it. I have an image of a very stylized, iso-metric sort of view of the Hudson Valley with some towns / cities highlighted, and probably exaggerated height on the mountains</p>","title":"Overview of the Week","metadata":{"tags":["weekly-notes","reflections","progress","generative","mapping","hudsonvalley","visualization"],"date":"2024-04-29T05:00:00.000Z","modified":"2025-08-28T19:08:25.000Z","dek":"In which the author meticulously crafts a cyberpunk visual aesthetic and explores the Hudson Valley through digital elevation models and contour maps.","words":162,"images":0,"imageDetails":{"total":0,"cloudinary":0,"withDimensions":0},"links":0,"codeBlocks":0,"headers":{"h2":3},"toc":[{"text":"Overview of the Week","slug":"overview-of-the-week","level":"h2","children":[]},{"text":"Projects Worked On","slug":"projects-worked-on","level":"h2","children":[]},{"text":"Creative Endeavors","slug":"creative-endeavors","level":"h2","children":[{"text":"Cyberpunk Visual Aesthetic","slug":"cyberpunk-visual-aesthetic","level":"h3","children":[]},{"text":"Hudson Valley Exploration","slug":"hudson-valley-exploration","level":"h3","children":[]}]}],"type":"post"}},"_links":{"self":"https://ejfox.com/blog/week-notes/2024-18.json","html":"https://ejfox.com/blog/week-notes/2024-18","index":"/blog.json"}}