Weird Web October 2026
Giving Weird Web October a spin this year! We shall see how many days I complete.
01 - Reveal
Today's theme is "reveal", so I'm unscrambling the pixels of an image using a slider. The all the pixels of the image start in a random spot then move along a bezier curve to their proper position. I then "smear" the pixels around to fill any empty spaces. You can click on the image to use one of your own.
02 - Spark
Spark immediately made me think of sparklers- draw on the canvas to make your own sparklers and watch them burn!
03 - Fake
For this one, I wanted to do crappy forgeries of images. Underneath the hood I'm computing something like a HOG of the image data- using an x-and-y edge detection and using that to find the angle and strength of an edge at every point. I then "paint" the image using curved strokes rougly placed at a location using its color, where stronger gradient makes a longer more opaque stroke and weaker is a shorter, fatter stroke. Like previous days, you can click to swap for your own image.
04 - Plastic
Plastic! Credit cards! Commerce! wanted to play with the shiny reflection thing.
05 - Sheet
I present the ultimate challenge: Tony Hawk Fitted Sheet Folder 2026
06 - Analog
Listen: it's 31 days of weird web, they're not all gonna be winners. I did hand-code the SVG though because I am a sicko, so that's kinda analog.
07 - Organic
It's time to Get Autumnal™. Built using L-systems.
07b - Organic "Forest"
I thought the trees were pretty enough to warrant our first B-side- a whole forest of them!
08 - Skeumorphism
Take out your number 2 pencils, because this will be on Friday's test:
09 - Spicy
Jalapeno popups:
10 - Layers
Sand art was the first thing that popped into my head and thus: