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Show HN: A pattern generator with 1300 shapes and 300 dpi

tool.graphics

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Hi!

It took me three hours to make a free pattern generator using 1,300 shapes.

You can download in large resolution.

Good job! Very well put together! My only suggestion would be to tweak down the repetitiveness a bit; perhaps add some hard coded variations/motifs and generate upon them?

Overall tool.graphics has very nice aesthetics. Do you have an rss feed or github account we can follow or just the mailing list newsletter? (btw: You should make a mastodon account!)

Thanks! You can subscribe the newsletter on main page.

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Very cool! I see most of your projects have source on GitHub, will you be sharing the code for this as well?

That would be awesome ! Please :)

Yep,soon

Great work. Really like semi-randomised pieces of art like these.

I did something similar a couple of years ago for a background App for Android, while exploring Kotlin, but more based on pre-defined "patterns" instead of shapes.

Feel free to take a look ;)

Github: https://github.com/ODDBureau/mosayq

Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oddbureau....

Having a work iPhone, this is what i most miss from Android: you can compile cute projects like these even if they aren't on the store.

I went back to Android from iPhone for a lot of reasons. This was one of them. :)

Excellent

How about a few variants with ... 1. Gradients, 2. Transparency, 3. Lines/curves, 4. Lissajious patterns, 5. Fractals, 6. Zentangles

Just giving you some ideas.

Wow thanks for these ideas!

> 300 DPI

That seems a strange thing to claim in this context. I can make a 300 DPI image that's 1px by 1px. It's the number of pixels that counts for raster images - not the "suggested output size" (which is what DPI essentially is without further context)

Excellent! Perhaps offer to save as PNG rather than JPEG, for these?

thx, I think about it

These look great and are exactly what I needed today. Life is strange!

Nice, reminds me of the Büro Destruct designer: https://burodestruct.net/work/bdd-buro-destruct-designer which was available here (YMMV): https://burodestruct.net/bdd/

Thanks for sharing, interesting

They all look like the current IntelliJ IDEA splash screen

Great, when are you releasing the NFT? :^)

NFTartists ready to collaborate ;) hello@tool.graphics

Hi, lovely work, thanks for sharing! Is there a link to a repo somewhere? I'd like to use it, but I think in my use case I need to be able to specify the exact RGBs for the color palette. Thanks again!

This is awesome for generating background patterns for websites.

Nice, although random some look very artistic and purposeful

This is great. I particularly like the Bauhaus styles. Excellent work :)

Kudos for the SVG download option too!

Thanks!

Randomness can lead to unexpectedly-identifiable outputs: the "Chubby Yettie" generated graphic[0] has what almost looks like a swastika in the upper-left corner.

Might want to be careful about checking resulting aggregated outputs from this code.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/502xTOU

Since it's randomly generated and not planted by hatred, it doesn't really matter.

Swastika, a millinea old symbol of well being?

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