Saturday, November 17, 2007

The Plaidolyzer


I put the computer to work generating web pages with plaid backgrounds. It looks like you can modify the plaids interactively, but this is an illusion. You are actually navigating through plaids that have been generated ahead of time. Try it and see:
Click here for the Plaidolyzer

I decided to do some variations on the rainbow plaid theme. I shuffled the colors a bit. It turns out that the colors don't look right if they're out of order. For example, if yellow is between orange and green, it looks yellow. If yellow is next to white, it looks white. This puts some constraints on the shuffling.

Next, I tried different backgrounds from white to gray to black. Non-white backgrounds bring out the yellow.


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