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    I keep lucking into little accidents in one of my tools and managed to take it somewhere I wasn't expecting. I'm at 3,000 lines of JS now and it cracks me up when VS Code tells me "Complexity is 14 (or higher) you must be out of your mind."

    I keep looking at the output and thinking "how would I even do this in PS or Illustrator?" Particularly where simply clicking the generate button executes the randomization, along with other aspects like the ability to randomize cell rotation. As I describe in my longer post, a lot of this has real-time updates, like colors, blend modes, and padding. Ability to use negative padding is what creates the overlaps when blend modes are used.

    After incorporating the image inclusion feature, I realized I could use dozens or hundreds of images (single or multii-selected that are randomized), and find a nice balance between cells showing colors, and cells showing images.

    All the shapes are either standard CSS shapes, or more complex SVGs from a multi-select list. I'm kind of limited by the shapes that work well, so I'm now realizing that the opportunities are endless when it comes to using images, textures, patterns, etc.

    Thanks again for everyone's comments and enthusiasm in my previous posts, it's definitely motivated me to keep exploring new ideas. Claude is nearly flawless for writing this code. I don't know what I'm going to think of next.











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    • Love the first two.
      Wish there was a way to get drawings into code like that, like we were able to do 20 years ago in Flash.      PhanLo
    • Have a trawl of sites like fxhash, over the years Ive seen some great pencil and paint-like pieces. It is possible with code.microkorg
    • +1 on the first 2, especially #1. These are a step up from your previous pieces IMO. Some of the others are a bit busy/contrasty for my taste.monNom
    • Great job, are you going make the code/app available for purchase?utopian
    • Thanks everyone. monNom - thank you, and agreed. The busy ones were just seeing what's possible. Reminds me a bit too much of early 2000's Vir2l type of art.mg33
    • utopian - I'm not sure, but might think about that. Right now it's so specifically set up to server, and i need to see how the code would be modified to allowmg33
    • it to be installed easily.mg33
    • This guy created and set-up his visual experiments like you did, and then built an online brand/app. www.moshpro.apputopian
    • Love the first one!renderedred
    • utopian - interesting... that gets my gears going! I'd have to put a ton of thought into how that would work, especially since I've got so much local stuff thatmg33
    • is used from my server folders. I could see a lite version that uses a small number of color palettes and images, and a pro version that lets you upload yourmg33
    • own images.mg33
    • I've got another project ahead of that that I'm hoping to work on soon that will be a native or web app. Still doing some learning to get there.mg33
    • It's a songwriting idea tool that offers a variety of randomized starting points for new compositions. Nothing generative or AI-based, more of a randomized flowmg33
    • that offers suggestions on different songwriting aspects, lets you store notes, song progress, etc.mg33
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