Marcelo Paiva
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A man, woman, and child look at a laptop displaying a bar chart, with swirling patterns behind them.

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Data about disabled students, in a tool they could not use

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A parent at a laptop reading a bar chart of state outcomes through a refreshable braille display, colleagues seated around the table
Drawn with (triad)
#cb52b1#888540#5bbad8

Why these three

Three points spaced evenly around the wheel — the furthest apart three hues can be.

  1. SeedSHA-256 of idea-data-reporting, 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 = 309°.
  3. GeometryThe third byte modulo 4 picks triad, which adds 0°, 120°, 240°.
  4. WobbleThree more bytes shift each by up to ±12° — +3.9°, 10.9°, +5.4° — so two pieces that draw the same geometry are still not the same shape on the wheel.
  5. Result#cb52b1313° at 60% saturation, 79% value#88854058° at 52% saturation, 53% value#5bbad8194° at 58% saturation, 85% 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.