shortest distance

 

So Slimey and I are in perfect agreement about the straight lines then. Seems to be unbothered by the ink, which is a good start.

...later

I think they are Limacus flavus. And very nice. I am enjoying their unhurried itinerant curiosity and their calm voraciousness. Have completely got over the overnight decimation of the job-lot of marigolds I got from B&Q last year which were supposed to cheer up the shared drying green but just made it look like a Paul Nash painting.

They liked the oatmeal so much they took some of the top of the paper off while they were at it. So next time more protein, more starches, complex carbohydrates for my molluscy friends.

A feeble signal

but a signal nontheless. This is how pictures can get turned back into music, you see. I'm passing a current through drawn lines, and then I'll hand it on to someone who makes music out of electrical signals. (Not that that isn't pretty much what you do in your body, when you look at a thing: here I'm just talking about passing it through the square brain, to see what happens.)
Needs some tweaking as the signals are so weak. Graphite was the only thing that worked. I was very disapointed that my copper powder in gum arabic solution got me nowhere. Apparently the thing is silver powder in an epoxy medium with an addition of carbon black which helps out with the conductivity on account of the buckyballs. Well.