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Pointillist Dot-Field Studies

Stipple Painter

An invisible brush drifts a Lissajous path, laying colored dots on a warm cream canvas in a slow pointillist build-up inspired by pointillist.

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When to use it

Art-themed hero backgrounds, ambient loading screens, or decorative panels where slow generative painting suits the mood.

When not to

Contexts needing fast visual feedback or text readability over the canvas — dot accumulation fades slowly and background is hardcoded cream.

Working with an AI agent

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

Change the palette by replacing RGB.sky to [100,180,255] and slow the brush path by reducing ap+=0.018 to ap+=0.008. 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

  • color palette (RGB object)
  • brush path speed (ap += 0.018)
  • Lissajous radii (0.36 / 0.34 multipliers)
  • max dot count (MAX=900)
  • dot radius range (1.3 + 1.7)
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • IIFE wrapper
  • prefers-reduced-motion static fallback
  • visibilitychange pause/resume
  • DPR-aware fitCanvas
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • Background color hardcoded in both CSS and clearAll() — must update both to change ground color
  • No pointer interactivity; purely autonomous

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More Pointillist Dot-Field Studies components

  • Pointillist RevealColored dots scatter then assemble into a pointillist seashore — sail and parasol silhouettes — hold, dissolve, and repeat in an 11s loop.
  • Optical MixingA hex grid of orange and sky-blue dots slowly fuse toward their averaged hue and separate again, demonstrating divisionist optical mixing on cream background.
  • Dot Density GradientStippled dots encode luminance via density; a sine-driven light band sweeps the field, shifting hues between orange, green, and violet zones.
  • Afternoon LightA diagonal light band sweeps a pointillist dot grid; dots shift from violet/sky-blue to orange/green as sunlight passes, then settle back.
  • Complementary ShimmerGrid of orange-blue and green-violet dot pairs trembles out of phase, creating optical shimmer through simultaneous contrast. Motion lives in the eye.
  • The ParasolA parasol silhouette of colored dots slowly spins; dome segments cycle through pointillist's orange, violet, green, and sky-blue palette.