Nelson’s word today is ‘cognitive’, which is about thought. I'll have to look that up… knowing, learning and understanding things. The term I immediately thought of is ‘cognitive dissonance’, or “the mental discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs, values or attitudes.” Most people resolve this sort of thing “by rejecting, explaining away, or avoiding new information.” They often tell themselves comfortable lies.

Today’s Inktober prompt is ‘slither’, which automatically makes me think of snakes! I went with a a carney, Snake Charming-26, (39/38) Pickpocket- 39, Hide And Sneak-38, and Fight Dirty- 26, so from this we can expect that the kid made his living on the streets and has only recently been taken in by a kindly old Snake Charmer as his apprentice, I guess, although you can make up something suitably nasty instead...

I have been puttering around with quads and polygons from three points and two vectors head to tail and seem to have a breakthrough on building polygons out from one area, the center or a corner depending on the three random points. You make a quad from the three points by doing some math with the vectors to push a fourth point out to one side. This makes a quad, but if the two new sides are longer than any of the two vectors, subdivide and push the midpoints out to make pentagons or hexagons with a concave side. I can easily modify the original shape to include the new edges and keep track of daughter polygons. We can make triangles inside the subsidiary daughter polygons for a triangle mesh and calculate the areas.