Marcelo Paiva

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An older man arrives at a table of loose papers, his white cane out ahead of him, while two colleagues are still bent over their pages.

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W3C: reviewing standards before they harden

Work — read the piece

Meant to show
A blind expert joining the review while the standard is still loose paper on the table, early enough that what he says can still change it.
Asked for
An older man crossing a meeting room with a white cane sweeping ahead of him, loose papers spread across the table, colleagues turning toward him
Drawn with (split)
#3dc894#c54e9b#c66233

Why these three

The opposition backed off by 30 degrees either side, which keeps the contrast without the vibration.

  1. SeedSHA-256 of w3c-apa, 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 = 163°.
  3. GeometryThe third byte modulo 4 picks split, which adds 0°, 150°, 210°.
  4. WobbleThree more bytes shift each by up to ±12° — −5.2°, +8.7°, +6.4° — so two pieces that draw the same geometry are still not the same shape on the wheel.
  5. Result#3dc894158° at 69% saturation, 78% value#c54e9b321° at 60% saturation, 77% value#c6623319° at 74% saturation, 77% value

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