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Day 16 of #genuary2025: “Generative palette.”

I've never had to think about generating pleasing colour palettes consistently, so my first attempts were epic failures. But this one is pretty great I think. Almost no eye sores.

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Day 10 of #genuary2025: “You can only use TAU in your code, no other number allowed.”

From the top left to the bottom right, the individual grid tiles represent the numbers of TAU up to 142 decimal places. For 0 (and the decimal separator), a dot is drawn; for 1, just one line in every colour; for 2, two lines, etc.

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Day 8 of #genuary2025: “Draw one million of something.”

A hundred cells inside a hundred cells inside a hundred cells inside one cell. The algorithm randomly eliminates cells on the deepest level to get exactly one million.

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Day 7 of #genuary2025: “Use software that is not intended to create art or images.”

A stylized blend from white over green to black using Unicode emoji characters. The code itself is written in Crystal without dependencies. It generates a CSV which can then be viewed in any spreadsheet software.

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