Marcelo Paiva
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A woman in headphones and glasses sits at a laptop showing audio waveforms, surrounded by swirling clouds.

Draws this one again — same subject and the same people, a new palette and a new angle on it, described afresh. It replaces the drawing on this page for everyone, until somebody draws another. Costs the site about eight cents, and a few seconds.

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So, you design Data Visualizations. Visualize this: you could go blind tomorrow.

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A blind woman at a desk, headphones on, fingers reading a refreshable braille display beside a laptop showing bar charts
Drawn with (complementary)
#af318c#37af5c#ba515b

Why these three

Two hues opposite each other, the strongest contrast available, with the third supporting the first.

  1. SeedSHA-256 of data-visualizations-visualize-this-you-could-go-blind-tomorrow, which is the same every time and different for every piece.
  2. Base hueThe first two bytes as a fraction of 65,535, times 360 = 314°.
  3. GeometryThe third byte modulo 4 picks complementary, which adds 0°, 180°, 40°.
  4. WobbleThree more bytes shift each by up to ±12° — +2.9°, +4.9°, +0.6° — so two pieces that draw the same geometry are still not the same shape on the wheel.
  5. Result#af318c316° at 72% saturation, 69% value#37af5c139° at 68% saturation, 68% value#ba515b354° at 56% saturation, 73% value

Saturation never drops below 72% and value never below 78%, which is what keeps a hue reading as the colour it was chosen to be rather than as a dark. More on how these are made.