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1405/02/03
ANNO·​TRICESIMO·​DIE·​CENTESIMO·​QVINTO·​VITÆ·​POVYA
TheOppressionAndNotSeeingMyselfAsAnAdult
The Oppression And Not Seeing Myself As An Adult
Generative Spirograph Rosettes For @archive's Unordered Lists

The main reason I created the Spirograph Rosette algorithm and renderer (Kary 30⟡101) was to add generative stars and flower to the Waihona Ike and AnnotationsKit. One of the things I really wanted was to change the ordered lists so that instead of a fixed icon (✦), they showed different rosettes. The result is so nice right now.

Generative Spirograph Rosettes For @archive's Unordered Lists

Also, since Waihona Ike is designed as a static website, reproducibility of it “as-is”, is really important. So all the randoms are computed using seeded noise machines that generate exact same randoms each time. The seed here is the essay ID and therefore each time you visit the Waihona Ike, weather today or ten years from now, the variations created for that list item of that essay will remain exactly the same.

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