Arts & Crafts Pattern Repeats
The Honeycomb Repeat
Hexagonal grid where each cell blooms with olive leaves, madder petals, and an indigo berry; motifs pulse in traveling sine waves across the tiled field.
canvasmedium complexitymoderate motion
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When to use it
Dark-background hero sections, decorative full-bleed backgrounds for craft/botanical/arts themes.
When not to
Light-background layouts (background hardcoded dark indigo). Contexts needing text legibility over the pattern.
Working with an AI agent
Every component ships agent-ready metadata. An example instruction for this one:
Change the hex radius from R=44 to R=32 for a denser grid, swap PAL.madder to '#c0392b' for brighter petals, and slow the pulse wave by changing t*1.4 to t*0.8. 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
- hex radius (R=44)
- palette colors (PAL object)
- pulse wave speed (t*1.4)
- wave spatial frequency (cx*0.012, cy*0.012)
- petal count (i<5 loop)
- leaf count (i<3 loop)
- theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)
Keep intact
- DPR-aware fitCanvas pattern
- visibilitychange pause/resume
- prefers-reduced-motion guard (REDUCED)
- IIFE wrapper
- theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)
Known limitations
- Background color hardcoded in CSS — must change both #1d3550 in CSS and PAL.indigoDeep to retheme
- No pointer interaction — purely ambient
- Dense hex loop may be CPU-heavy at very large viewport sizes
More Arts & Crafts Pattern Repeats components
- The Wallpaper LoomA seamless Arts-and-Crafts botanical tile — olive stems, sage leaves, a madder flower, and indigo berry clusters — scrolls diagonally on a warm cream ground.
- Bird & Berry RepeatA tiled canvas repeating stylized birds and berry sprigs in Arts-and-Crafts palette; the colourway breathes slowly across three indigo-madder-olive schemes.
- Growing VineRecursive vine grows upward from bottom center, branching symmetrically with olive leaves and madder flowers at tips, then fades and regrows on deep indigo.
- The Colour-Way SwitcherArts-and-Crafts ogee botanical tile scrolls upward while cross-fading through five historic dye-bath colourways — indigo, madder, sage, gold, and ink.
- The Acanthus ScrollTwo rows of Arts-and-Crafts acanthus leaf motifs scroll continuously on a cream ground; a gold pen traces the path as if self-drawing.
- The TrellisDiamond lattice of olive laths with madder roses and leaves at each joint; blooms open in a staggered wave across the trellis then repeat every 6 seconds.