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Generative Geometry

Kaleidoscope

10-fold mirrored kaleidoscope of rotating polygon blobs on a deep plum background; tap/click spins the pattern and regenerates blobs.

canvasmedium complexitymoderate motionclick

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When to use it

Dark-mode hero backgrounds, screensavers, generative art showcases, or any ambient loop needing hypnotic symmetry.

When not to

Light-background UIs (background hardcoded dark plum). Contexts where users need to focus on text or UI controls.

Working with an AI agent

Every component ships agent-ready metadata. An example instruction for this one:

Change SEG from 10 to 8 for 8-fold symmetry, shift blob hues toward teal by replacing the random hue with a range of 150+Math.random()*80, and slow rotation by changing t*0.0002 to t*0.0001. Theme: dark tokens live in :root, the light variant in :root[data-theme="light"]; ?theme=light or a {type:'forever:theme'} postMessage switches at runtime.

Safe to edit

  • segment count (SEG=10)
  • blob count (M=7)
  • blob angular range (a within ±0.45·ang, bouncing at ±0.55·ang — must stay inside the mirrored wedge or the blob is clipped away in every segment)
  • rotation speed (t*0.0002)
  • blob hue range (Math.random()*360)
  • blob size range (0.05+Math.random()*0.1)
  • spin impulse on click (spin+=0.4)
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • IIFE wrapper
  • prefers-reduced-motion guard (static draw on reduce)
  • visibilitychange pause
  • DPR-aware canvas sizing
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • Reduced-motion path draws a single static frame but still runs the rAF loop (blobs update silently)
  • Background color hardcoded in both CSS and fillRect — must change both to retheme
  • Blob hues are fully random on each init; no palette control

kaleidoscopegenerativecanvassymmetrypolygonambientloop

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