So, since my little SVG experiments of yore only work with the antiquated Adobe SVG Player plugin and I'm currently too lazy to rewrite them to behave with new, standardish SVG, I'm going to post some screen shots and reminisce about the good ol' days, when transparency and real time 2d graphics were new.

And after getting all the screen shots, I do think it's high time I ported these to something a little more standard, like processing.js.

In no particular order:

River of Orchids
Named after a weird minimalist/maximalist? XTC song. It gave me the same feeling, with very simple elements smoothly intertwining. It definitely looks more interesting when it's in motion.



and also, it (like a lot of these SVG experiments, had a color palette that was randomized on page load).





Spin

Kinda self-explanatory. Dead simple and kinda useless, but lots of fun to play with. Which is how I like my experiments. In retrospect, they remind me a little of the minimalist movie poster designs, which were floating around in the blogosphere not too long ago.





Crosstown Traffic

Simple, but also fun to play with (notice a trend here?)... all of the circles animate into place, while the structure builds itself. I like how several of the nodes are opaque and highly saturated. Contrast is good for the kids, you know.

Penta

A series of n-sided polygons composed of triangles, sliding together at different times.









Maeda Wave

This is a port of one of Jared Tarbell's earlier Flash experiments. I like the color palettes.



posted on 4/29/2010 11:41:00 AM