neon death parade

Changes:

Massive across-the-board speed increases. On my work machine, the time to generate a 2048-color palette has dropped from 11 seconds to 0.1 second. Feel the difference: try the legacy version! (And remember to give it a few seconds.)

Palettes can be sorted to match the ordering of the full palette. Or re-scrambled.

Images of various sizes can be generated from palettes; no screencapping necessary. Keep in mind that your browser may nope out on generating images that are too large.

Added some explanations.

Layout is much less amateur hour.

Potential future plans:

The help bubbles really need to pop up/dismiss actual boxes on hover instead of just using the title attribute.

As the image size is based on the window width, resizing the window alone should re-enable image creation.

A "dark mode".

Overlapping swatches. Additional swatch shapes.

The big one: a redesign that allows for "basic" and "advanced" operation. I can see the value in more granular editing capabilities (...and want them for myself, frankly) but can't think of a way to allow that without kneecapping the simpler, faster process that exists now. It'll have to be its own thing.

manual color reordering

individual color adjustment

gradient generation

color categories

more user control over automatic generation

...and yes, probably allowing the use of hsl like everyone's used to

Who the fuck even knows:

gotta go EVEN F A S T E R (if I can further optimize it)

...does anyone on tumblr even care about generating an SVG instead of a raster image (...no, ok that's what I suspected)

arrange the swatches in a circle because I think I'd like the way it looks haaaaaa

Troubleshoot any compatibility problems with supported browsers.

On May 1st, I stumbled across #The100DayProject via Weja and thought, "Man, that sounds like a good idea. Maybe I should do that too."

...Then I realized that not only would it be a bad fit—the official website explicitly discourages "fetishizing finished products"—but I was already at 35/100.

I don't think I'm going to make a big deal out of joining time-dependent group exercises in creativity anymore.

I have been trying to wrap my head around color. Much of this has involved using Overlay layers. Careful study of James Gurney's Color and Light should probably ensue, but the odds of that happening in April seem low.