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andronov04
Hi!

It took me three hours to make a free pattern generator using 1,300 shapes.

You can download in large resolution.

anonfunction
Very cool! I see most of your projects have source on GitHub, will you be sharing the code for this as well?
jonifico
That would be awesome ! Please :)
epilys
Good job! Very well put together! My only suggestion would be to tweak down the repetitiveness a bit; perhaps add some hard coded variations/motifs and generate upon them?

Overall tool.graphics has very nice aesthetics. Do you have an rss feed or github account we can follow or just the mailing list newsletter? (btw: You should make a mastodon account!)

andronov04
Thanks! You can subscribe the newsletter on main page.
preya2k
Can't subscribe to the newsletter :( Getting a timeout error in the Newsletter modal.
cosmotic
They all look like the current IntelliJ IDEA splash screen
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quickthrower2
Nice, although random some look very artistic and purposeful
sourcecodeplz
These look great and are exactly what I needed today. Life is strange!
albert_e
Excellent

How about a few variants with ... 1. Gradients, 2. Transparency, 3. Lines/curves, 4. Lissajious patterns, 5. Fractals, 6. Zentangles

Just giving you some ideas.

andybak
> 300 DPI

That seems a strange thing to claim in this context. I can make a 300 DPI image that's 1px by 1px. It's the number of pixels that counts for raster images - not the "suggested output size" (which is what DPI essentially is without further context)

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kristjank
This is awesome for generating background patterns for websites.
namanyayg
Great, when are you releasing the NFT? :^)
andronov04
NFTartists ready to collaborate ;) hello@tool.graphics
zepn
Excellent! Perhaps offer to save as PNG rather than JPEG, for these?
LysPJ
This is great. I particularly like the Bauhaus styles. Excellent work :)

Kudos for the SVG download option too!

keville
Randomness can lead to unexpectedly-identifiable outputs: the "Chubby Yettie" generated graphic[0] has what almost looks like a swastika in the upper-left corner.

Might want to be careful about checking resulting aggregated outputs from this code.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/502xTOU

melenaos
Since it's randomly generated and not planted by hatred, it doesn't really matter.
unmole
Swastika, a millinea old symbol of well being?
asimpletune
Hi, lovely work, thanks for sharing! Is there a link to a repo somewhere? I'd like to use it, but I think in my use case I need to be able to specify the exact RGBs for the color palette. Thanks again!
joelclaudio
Great work. Really like semi-randomised pieces of art like these.

I did something similar a couple of years ago for a background App for Android, while exploring Kotlin, but more based on pre-defined "patterns" instead of shapes.

Feel free to take a look ;)

Github: https://github.com/ODDBureau/mosayq

Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oddbureau....

ASalazarMX
Having a work iPhone, this is what i most miss from Android: you can compile cute projects like these even if they aren't on the store.
joelclaudio
I went back to Android from iPhone for a lot of reasons. This was one of them. :)