Post #269592
2026-02-12 10:25 UTC
A few years ago I made this random fish generator for a colleague: https://strudel.org.uk/fish/
Amy had been making abstract graphical fish and we realised that we could create lots of different fish by moving 10 control points (two for the nose, two for the start of body, two for the end of body, two for the start of the tail and two for the end of tail) up and down and applying random patterns/colours.
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@slowe@mastodon.me.uk 2026-02-12 11:01
We made this tool during a very quiet day at work where there was nothing to do. Although it had no direct use by itself, it was a good learning exercise because we learned how to create SVG from scratch. The skills I got that day have been very useful ever since. I've just gone back to it and tidied up/simplified the code a little bringing the page size down to under 25kB (11.25kB transferred)!
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@jtonline@mastodon.me.uk 2026-02-12 10:45
@slowe soooo good! I want to read this though :( http://www.tiger-tea.co.uk/portfolio/geometric-sea-critters/
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@yaxu@post.lurk.org 2026-02-12 11:03
@slowe Lovely! This reminds me of @TodePond somehow
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@davebauerart@mastodon.social 2026-02-12 23:32
@slowe These are wonderful!
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@j12i@weirder.earth 2026-02-13 01:08
@slowe the tiger tea website is gone… does Amy have a new one?