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codeismycanvas

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Many fractals exhibit macro-scale order with micro-scale disorder, perfect for #genuary16 "Order and Disorder". The top layer is the most ordered, with entropy increasing as you go down.

#genuary #genuary2026 #fractal #mathart

Fractal imagery, an orange diamond grid on top of a swirling brown, blue, and green distorted swirling version of the same grid.

January 17, 2026 at 9:54 AM

codeismycanvas

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My #genuary15 "Invisible Object" animation is an experiment using SVG filters and animation effects.

#genuary #genuary2026 #svg #smil #shadow

January 16, 2026 at 12:36 AM

codeismycanvas

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Today's #genuary prompt seemed perfect for a Truchet tiling image, where the curve perfectly fills the space.

#genuary2026 #genuary14 #truchet #hexagonal

A hexagon filled with wandering black-and-white curves and circles filling the space.

January 15, 2026 at 12:33 AM

codeismycanvas

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My #genuary13 self portrait is defined entirely by parametric equations! Portrait in the first image, equations in the second. The equations were generated by tracing points from a photograph, then basically using an FFT algorithm to convert the coordinates […]

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Parametric equations used to generate the face. Each equation for x and y is a function of parameter t with various sine and cosine coefficients.

January 14, 2026 at 12:45 AM

codeismycanvas

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This is probably an unexpected interpretation of #genuary12, "Boxes Only", but I like how it turned out. Thinking of different uses of the term "box" in mathematical contexts, somehow I recalled the Box-Muller transformation, named after George E. P. Box and […]

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Thin yellow and purple lines radiate from a central square, ending in small circles. The lines form the diagonal of faint thin gray rectangles.

January 12, 2026 at 2:34 PM

codeismycanvas

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Very similar to my interpretation of last year's Genuary 3 "42 Lines of Code" (link below), this code is a "Quine" that outputs itself into a stylized image using SVG curves and gradients.

https://universeodon.com/@codeismycanvas/113765562968011769

#genuary #genuary2026 #genuary11 #quine #svg

An image of made of python code written from to bottom, fading from purple to orange to yellow, each line along a random overlapping curve hanging from the top of the image like an upside-down fire.

January 11, 2026 at 3:20 PM

codeismycanvas

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For #genuary10, Polar Coordinates, here is a stylized plot of
r = 4 + ⌈θ/4 + 2cos(3.3θ)⌉

#genuary #genuary2026 #genuary10 #polarcoordinates #ceilingfunction

Abstract image with a round medallion shape containing yellow-orange zigzag patterns against a blue textured background.

January 10, 2026 at 4:22 PM

codeismycanvas

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Snowy New Mexico Sunset.

#albuquerque #newmexico #sunset #snow

A cloud-filled sunset. The dimly-lit foreground has cholla cactus and juniper covered with a bit of fluffy snow. Faint city lights of Albuquerque are starting to appear just below the horizon line.

January 10, 2026 at 1:58 AM

codeismycanvas

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For Genuary 9, a crazy automaton, I'm combining a cellular automaton with the concept of "odious numbers" I learned about during #mathober. Each cell is assigned one of 4 states, and if sum of states of 8 surrounding cells is an odious number, increment the […]

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January 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM

codeismycanvas

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This is a (very slight) extension of last year's Genuary20 (Architecture) prompt, which I based on the skyline in the old QBasic Gorillas game. This year, it gets extended to "3D" with layers of buildings, scaled and "misted" toward the back. And stars in […]

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A cartoonish city skyline made from yellow rectangles in the foreground, green rectangles in the middle, and purple rectangles behind, each with black and yellow windows filling their area. A dark blue sky with scattered white dots for stars falls behind.

January 9, 2026 at 1:51 AM

codeismycanvas

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For #genuary7, Boolean Algebra, this image simulates a set of stacked logic gates, with gate type and signal state represented by colors.

#genuary #genuary2026 #boolean #logicgate

Yellow and green rectangles laying horizontally across the image and stacked from top to bottom. Rectangles on the left side are short in height, then two adjacent rectangles merge into one thicker rectangle, followed by two more merging into a rectangle with 4x thickness before exiting on the right of the image. A thin strip of red, blue, or green is placed everywhere two rectangles merge.

January 8, 2026 at 12:39 AM

codeismycanvas

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For #genuary6 "Lights On/Off", I took a fractal image and lightened it for the lights on state, and darkened for the lights off state. Most of my fractals end up with darker backgrounds, so using a light theme was an interesting challenge.

#genuary #genuary2026 #fractal

Fractal image: A flower-like shape with yellow center fading to red, with thin green curves behind. This is the "light" version with a lightened shades of the same colors.

Fractal image: A flower-like shape with yellow center fading to red, with thin green curves behind. This is the "dark" version with muted darker colors.

January 7, 2026 at 12:39 AM

codeismycanvas

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Today's #genuary prompt is to write "Genuary" without using a font. I'm always intrigued by those "Inhabited Initials" found in older books, where the first letter in a paragraph is drawn using fancy illustrations, so I attempted to write the word by pulling […]

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The word "GENUARY" written out using fancy initial letter illustrations from old books. Most letters are decorated with floral or foliage. The "N" has a bird with outstretched wings sitting on top looking down into the letter. The "R" has what looks like a human wearing a bug costume, with antenna and tail, kneeling behind the leg of the "R".

January 6, 2026 at 12:44 AM

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bit101

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I created a release of a standalone palette tool. Included binaries for mac and linux.

https://codeberg.org/bit101/getpal

Would love to have people try it out.

getpal

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January 5, 2026 at 1:52 AM

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bit101

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A summation of my work on color palettes. https://bit-101.com/blog/posts/2026-01-04/palettes/

BIT-101: Palettes

Exploring color palettes and different ways to create them for use in digital art.

bit-101.com

January 4, 2026 at 5:48 PM

codeismycanvas

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For #genuary4 - Low Resolution - I made a Julia set fractal with resolution animated starting at 6x6 pixels, increasing to 180x180 and back.

#genuary #genuary2026 #juliaset #fractal

January 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM

codeismycanvas

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For #genuary3, "Fibonacci Forever", I'm recycling an orbit-trap fractal I shared back on Fibonacci Day (11/23, of course). It uses the typical fractal equation z ↦ zⁿ + z₀, but n increases following the Fibonacci sequence with each iteration.

#genuary #genuary2026 #fibonacci #fractal

$Fractal image: A lime-green ring in the center, with rings of increasing fractal distortion underneath, in greens, oranges, and yellows. Thin pink lines fall behind the set of rings.$

January 3, 2026 at 7:52 PM

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bit101

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I made a venn diagram to help you understand Moiré patterns.

venn diagram. circles labeled "Angled lines" and "Different angled lines", they are filled with patterns of slightly different angled lines. the intersecting area is labeled Moire pattern and indeed has a moire pattern in it.

January 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM

codeismycanvas

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#genuary2 - Twelve Principles of Animation. I don't have a lot of experience with animations, but I've recently been exploring animating SVG's using the SMIL `` elements. For this prompt, I focused on a single one of the twelve principles of […]

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January 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM

codeismycanvas

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It's Genuary time again! Today's prompt is "One color, one shape". I chose to make a hepta of heptagons made from blue heptagons.

#genuary #genuary2026 #genuary1 #heptagon

Overlapping blue heptagons with equal size but random rotation form the outline of seven larger nested heptagons.

January 1, 2026 at 5:33 PM

codeismycanvas

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New Year's Eve? Whatever. Let's celebrate Genuary Eve! https://genuary.art

#genuary #newyear #2026

Fractal image - three yellow flower-like curves with blue pentagons in the center are surrounded by wavy green lines above and below.

December 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM

codeismycanvas

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Another visualization of the Mandelbrot equation, tracing the path of a few points starting in a small circle.

#mandelbrot #fractal #mathart #generativeart

Abstract image of yellow galaxy-like spiral curves with a blue toward the center and white dots sprinkled throughout.

December 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM

codeismycanvas

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More things found while exploring the Mandelbrot equation. Pick a few points in a small circle and trace their orbits. Yellow dots are the actual calculated points, connected by a purple curve if the point eventually escapes, and green if it does not […]

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