Marcelo Paiva

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Drawing for Who can afford to participate?.

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Who can afford to participate?

Writing — read the piece

Meant to show
A blind research participant getting to the session by bus in the rain, on time the study did not plan to pay for.
Asked for
A woman with a folded white cane waiting at a bus stop in the rain, a lit building across the road behind her
Drawn with (split)
#9a2eae#78b25f#3d9668

Why these three

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

  1. SeedSHA-256 of who-can-afford-to-participate, 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 = 301°.
  3. GeometryThe third byte modulo 4 picks split, which adds 0°, 150°, 210°.
  4. WobbleThree more bytes shift each by up to ±12° — −10.6°, +10.4°, −2.3° — so two pieces that draw the same geometry are still not the same shape on the wheel.
  5. Result#9a2eae291° at 73% saturation, 68% value#78b25f102° at 47% saturation, 70% value#3d9668149° at 59% saturation, 59% 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.