Marcelo Paiva

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What does the thirtieth study tell you that the first does not?

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Meant to show
An experienced braille reader taking a task at her own pace: one participant among thirty who did not agree with each other.
Asked for
An older woman working through a task on a braille display, unhurried, while someone writes beside her without interrupting
Drawn with (analogous)
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Why these three

Two neighbors reading as one family, and a third opposite them to argue with it.

  1. SeedSHA-256 of what-does-the-thirtieth-study-tell-you, 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 = 62°.
  3. GeometryThe third byte modulo 4 picks analogous, which adds 0°, 35°, 190°.
  4. WobbleThree more bytes shift each by up to ±12° — +6.6°, −8.5°, +5.9° — so two pieces that draw the same geometry are still not the same shape on the wheel.
  5. Result#c0d54b69° at 65% saturation, 83% value#93b86a89° at 42% saturation, 72% value#7a58c7258° at 56% saturation, 78% 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.