∞ forever components

Generative Geometry

Penrose Aperiodic

Penrose rhombus tiling via recursive deflation, recoloured by a sine wave radiating outward in gold, rose, and plum. Pointer nudges wave; click pulses.

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When to use it

Generative art hero sections, math/science landing pages, ambient dark-background displays where geometric complexity is the centrepiece.

When not to

Contexts requiring text legibility on top — the dense tiling and shifting colours compete with overlaid content. Low-end devices may stutter at depth 6.

Working with an AI agent

Every component ships agent-ready metadata. An example instruction for this one:

Change the accent colour from gold to electric cyan by replacing C_ACC=[212,175,106] with C_ACC=[0,220,210] and C_PALE=[233,221,201] with C_PALE=[180,255,255]. Theme: dark tokens live in :root, the light variant in :root[data-theme="light"]; ?theme=light or a {type:'forever:theme'} postMessage switches at runtime.

Safe to edit

  • deflation depth (depth 5 or 6 based on viewport size)
  • colour palette constants (C_BG, C_ACC, C_DEEP, C_ROSE, C_PALE)
  • wave frequency and speed (nd*7.0, tt*2.2)
  • tile scale radius (R = max(W,H)*0.62)
  • pulse decay rate (pulse *= 0.95)
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • IIFE wrapper
  • prefers-reduced-motion guard (static frame at t=40)
  • visibilitychange pause/resume
  • DPR-aware canvas sizing
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • Depth-6 deflation generates thousands of triangles — may drop frames on low-end mobile
  • No animated reduced-motion fallback beyond a single static draw
  • Rhombus edges suppressed visually but triangles not merged structurally

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