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Seems reasonable.

Inspiration

A nice and really well-scoped explainer by Nicky Case.

From: http://ncase.me/attractors/


More navigation signposting added to the picture hanging arranger algorithm.


I got the permutation explorer working well enough to add the generated arrangements back in.


Drilling down through permutations.


Figuring out how to break the picture hanging permutations into levels.


Going to try making the report illustrations in Figma this time around.

Inspiration

On different metaphors for websites. A good reminder that you get to choose.

From: https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/laurel-schwulst-my-website-is-a-shifting-house-next-to-a-river-of-knowledge-what-could-yours-be/


Working on a web app version of the picture hanging arrangement algorithm.


Exploring the next report color.

From: https://beta.observablehq.com/@grantcuster/fast-forward-labs-report-colors

Inspiration

The Creative Independent let's editors highlight certain passages to draw attention. It's a really nicely-scoped annotation feature -- easy to understand what is happening for both the audience and different editors, without going down a rabbit-hole of pull-quote or formatting options. It also opens up the possibility of doing other things with those highlights.

From: https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/dan-bejar-on-having-no-process/

Inspiration

Some pretty cool moves in here.

From: https://medium.com/@mwichary/dark-theme-in-a-day-3518dde2955a


I made a 3d version of my accessible color contrast explorer.

From: https://beta.observablehq.com/@grantcuster/acessible-color-contrast-explorer-3d-edition


I made a color cube.


I made a notebook to explore which colors pass the web accessibility contrast thresholds.

Inspiration

A cool solution to determining the spacing of your color palette: use k-means clustering.

From: http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/iwanthue/index.php


An HCL color space example.

From: https://beta.observablehq.com/@grantcuster/hcl-color-space-with-lightness-slider


An HCL color space example.

From: https://beta.observablehq.com/@grantcuster/hcl-color-space-with-lightness-slider


Doing some more experiments to develop intuition about LAB color space.

From: https://beta.observablehq.com/@grantcuster/lab-color-space-with-lightness-slider


I made a notebook exploring the "sinebow" rainbow a little bit. Still getting my head around color spaces.

From: https://beta.observablehq.com/@grantcuster/sinebow-lightness-test via https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/sinebow