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vintagedave
A real shame that they didn't include screenshots of what the results look like. Not only do they note browsers that don't support it yet, they even note that the samples might not survive changes in the future.

So I scrolled, saw a lot of code, nothing showing the result.

kilian
The point isn't showing what they look like, it's that the result is randomized. Screenshots aren't, so that kind of defeats the purpose.

The article starts with instructions on how to actually see and interact with the demos (the easiest is to use [Polypane](https://polypane.app)), as well as a video showing all the demos from the article running in Polypane.

g-
Didn't there exist convoluted ways to get random numbers in CSS before this? (I think some would even manipulate the DOM and re-read the changed values since those operations have randomness apparently)
MartijnBraam
Bokeh doesn't have different blur for different circles, it's always projecting the exact shape of the aperture.
smallnix
This might produce unpleasant clusters of the same color ("clustering illusion"), if the values are really randomly distributed.