Sand Shapes

An experiment in line texture by Nate Donato, this collection features a wide variety of possible lines composed of a sand-like particle texture. Bounds around line generation properties were set loosely, resulting in many possible unique line characters with varied weights, wobbles, and more. Lines are generated in individual layered segments one by one, resulting in a pleasing animation of gradual composition as they compose one of twelve possible shapes, in one of eight possible color schemes.

Each "line" is made up of thousands of points, and so rendering the live view of this piece may be computer intensive. As an added bonus a small amount of proprietary line data is emitted to the development console, allowing the minted collection to serve as a palette of potential line qualities for the artist to use in future works. Any owners of pieces used in this way by the artist on future projects will be granted a share of said future project's royalties.

In active live view, press [1] to view medium res, [2] to view high res, and [0] to return to original viewport width view.

Written in vanilla JavaScript without the use of external libraries.