{"id":793,"date":"2013-07-03T18:52:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T17:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/?p=793"},"modified":"2013-07-04T22:03:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T21:03:38","slug":"alternative-lines-for-the-daily-create","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/alternative-lines-for-the-daily-create\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Lines for the Daily Create"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Alan is barking about getting creative<\/a> which pushes me towards a dailycreate or two.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately yesterday’s Draw something abstract out of straight lines<\/a> proved a bit of a problem, I stared at various iPad drawing apps, scratched a few lines and gave up.<\/p>\n

Waking early in the morning I though about this a bit, looked at the ones that had been created while I slept and though, I could do this with HyperCard. Lacking an old enough mac and wanting to learn a little more about the canvas element in html5 I decided on a small javascript experiment.<\/p>\n

A bit of googling and I came up with this simple page<\/a>. It basically produces an image with 600 random lines.
\n\"tdc541\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There are a few other variations. I also looked for a nice quote about ‘straight lines’ which is added to the image (this can be turned off).
\n\"lines4\"<\/a>\"lines3\"<\/a>\"lines2\"<\/a>\"lines1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Now I am wondering about making animated gifs from multiple images<\/s>. done<\/a><\/p>\n

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