I made a new YouTube video! This one is doing better than usual. I think I may have finally found my groove, though I have no idea what I’ll do for my next video. Amusingly this came about kind of quickly and kind of randomly. I wasn’t planning on making a video, I just went down this weird rabbit hole when I noticed this effect, and wound up learning about (spoiler alert) Turing Patterns. There’s a lot more that can be said about reaction-diffusion but I wanted to keep the video high level and light. It’s just a cool effect that has a neat underlying mechanism.
I’ve made available the accompanying web app and video generator I created to make the effects in the video. Had I known people would ask for them I probably would have done them in a different language, as JavaScript is really, really slow for this kind of stuff. However, it’s the language I’m most comfortable in and I was able to bang it out really quickly (you may notice that web app is just a hollowed out version of the Color Palette Generator I showed off a few weeks ago).
Holy cow, I was just talking to a buddy about the old AOL days and remembered your site! I can’t believe you’re still rockin’ it after all these years! Props to you man!
Hello! I was using your hex code color generator, well trying to, for a game I play that utilizes hex code for coloring of messages. The problem is that I can’t find the option for prefix and suffix. The game I play requires a suffix.
I get that the website was for fun, and you don’t get paid to run it, but I was hoping you would be gracious enough to add that feature so that hex values would come out as such format.
If not, I totally understand and I thank you for having such a neat website regardless whether or not I am able to find use for it.
If this message finds you, my email is affixed and you may contact me there.
Thank you again! Cheers!