Marcelo Paiva

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Drawing for Who is an accessibility file for?.

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Who is an accessibility file for?

Writing — read the piece

Meant to show
A wheelchair user arriving at a door somebody thought to mark and to ramp. The file is the sign beside it: where to go, said before he had to ask.
Asked for
A man in a power wheelchair at the foot of a short flight of steps to a doorway, looking up at a large arrow sign beside the door that points to a ramp around the side
Drawn with (triad)
#be6a9a#76d04d#6ab2d4

Why these three

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

  1. SeedSHA-256 of who-is-an-accessibility-file-for, 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 = 329°.
  3. GeometryThe third byte modulo 4 picks triad, which adds 0°, 120°, 240°.
  4. WobbleThree more bytes shift each by up to ±12° — −3.0°, +12.0°, −9.7° — so two pieces that draw the same geometry are still not the same shape on the wheel.
  5. Result#be6a9a326° at 44% saturation, 75% value#76d04d101° at 63% saturation, 81% value#6ab2d4199° at 50% saturation, 83% 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.