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randomColor – A color generator for JavaScript
There are lots of clever one-liners for generating random colors: ‘#’+Math.floor(Math.random()*16777215).toString(16); Unfortunately, this code naturally produces lots of greys and browns and murky greens. randomColor generates attractive colors by default. More specifically, randomColor produces bright colors with a reasonably high saturation. This makes randomColor particularly useful for data visualizations and generative art. The result pictured …
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Inverse trigonometric functions with Sass
See the Pen Pure CSS 3D animated icosidodecahedron (pentagonal gyrobirotunda) by Ana Tudor (@thebabydino) on CodePen. You might think that math doesn’t have a lot to do with writing stylesheets, but you can actually do some amazing things with a little math in CSS. Math (particularly trigonometry) can help you model the real world. You’ll …
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ScanLAB Projects
ScanLAB Projects are the UK’s leading provider of large scale 3D scanning, capturing precise, beautiful digital replicas of buildings, landscapes, objects and events. We provide quality 3D Scanning Services, 3D Publishing and Pointcloud Visualisation. Damn impressive! Be sure to check out some of the works shown on their website. ScanLAB Projects →
VLEX – Vector Layout Expressions
<html> <head> <script src="path/to/vlex.js"></script> </head> <body> <div id="vlexContainer" style="width:100%; height:100%;"> <svg id="vlex" width="100%" height="100%" onload="VLEX(vlex)"> <!– call VLEX inline –> <circle r="100" vlex="cx:{$cX};cy:{$cY}"></circle> <!– use vlex attribute –> </svg> </div> </body> </html> SVG is deemed to be the holy grail for graphics in resposive web design! But are they really?! In situations – where you …
perfect-scrollbar — Tiny but perfect jQuery scrollbar plugin.
Good-Looking Shapes Gallery
Layouts where content hugs the boundaries of illustrations are common in print and rare on the web. One of the reasons non-rectangular contour-hugging layouts are uncommon on the web is that they are difficult to produce. They are not difficult to produce anymore. And once again I have a flashback to (the now offline) The …