In recent Widget Wednesdays I’ve been using noise to vary values in a graph paper grid. But what if we vary the grid itself?<\/p>\n
Graph paper is the ultimate aesthetic expression of control, of regularity, of something conforming exactly to a standard of measurement. So I started to imagine what it might be like if graph paper felt rebellious, and decided to fight against its chains.<\/p>\n
That led me to add noise to the positions of the squares in the graph paper, as though the regular pattern has started to roil in agitation.<\/p>\n
You can see the result here<\/a>. As usual you can see and edit the code by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and clicking on the word you see there.<\/p>\n I didn’t make this one interactive, because I wanted to keep the program simple, and therefore as easy as possible to understand. In a follow-up version, I might add interactivity, because it could be fun to see graph paper respond to the user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In recent Widget Wednesdays I’ve been using noise to vary values in a graph paper grid. But what if we vary the grid itself? Graph paper is the ultimate aesthetic expression of control, of regularity, of something conforming exactly to a standard of measurement. So I started to imagine what it might be like if … Continue reading “Widget Wednesdays #32”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24687"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24688,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24687\/revisions\/24688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}