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Pointillist Dot-Field Studies

Pointillist Frame

Canvas field of color-cycling dots with a breathing dot border; gradient drifts through green, sky, orange, and violet in pointillist pointillist style.

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When to use it

Art-themed hero backgrounds, museum or gallery UIs, ambient screensavers needing a painterly aesthetic.

When not to

Contexts requiring text overlays — dot field competes visually. Low-contrast palettes clash with the fixed warm-cream background.

Working with an AI agent

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

Change gradient palette by replacing RGB.sky with [90,160,220] and RGB.violet with [180,80,160], then increase gap from 13 to 18 for a sparser dot grid. 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.green/sky/orange/violet)
  • dot grid gap (gap=13)
  • frame inset (inset=26)
  • drift speed (t*0.05)
  • dot pulse amplitude (0.12*Math.sin)
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

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

Known limitations

  • Background color hardcoded as #f1ecdf in both CSS and canvas fillRect — must change both to retheme
  • Dot count scales with viewport; large screens may stress fill calls on low-end devices

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