Started work on the second book of Patent Absurdities. Somewhere between satirical commentary on old…

Started work on the second book of Patent Absurdities. Somewhere between satirical commentary on old patents, and satirical commentary on current events. The word “between” is carrying a lot of weight here.

Me: “Well, that’s a bit like disturbing propaganda posters.”
Brain: “More disturbing, YES, our Precious.”

Process: Export an image from a PDF of a scanned patent. Digitally re-ink it, fit it to page-size (11x17 inches, doubles as small poster size), color gradient it, randomize the hue on a per instance basis, invert it to get the black inking to white, lay the frame over it, add copyright text - which is for the inking, commentary text, layout, color, etc. - and then do an 80% black overlay in the top frame. Fill that with the commentary text.

A bunch of other fiddly stuff in the background, mostly to do with coding in .jsx to get the inking and coloration shifts correct.

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