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Playful Geometric Notation

Magic Square

7x5 grid of color blocks in terracotta, teal, mustard, slate, and plum that slowly breathe — scaling and shifting saturation — evoking a Bauhaus watercolor quilt.

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When to use it

Art-inspired hero backgrounds, gallery pages, or ambient mood-setting with a warm painterly aesthetic.

When not to

Contexts needing legible overlaid text or light-background UIs — background is fixed warm linen.

Working with an AI agent

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

Change palette to cool blues by replacing HUES with ['#2a6496','#3aaf8c','#4a7ab5','#1e5a4b','#3d6e8a'] and set COLS=9, ROWS=7. 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

  • color palette (HUES array)
  • grid dimensions (COLS=7, ROWS=5)
  • breathe duration range (5+Math.random()*5)
  • cell opacity range (0.78+Math.random()*0.22)
  • gap and padding values
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • IIFE wrapper
  • prefers-reduced-motion guard (REDUCED + @media rule)
  • role=img + aria-label on stage
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • Color layout is random each load — no seeded reproducibility
  • Background color hardcoded as #efe7d6 linen in CSS

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More Playful Geometric Notation components

  • A Line Goes WalkingA single ink line wanders the warm paper canvas step by step, tracing a random path from a teal start-dot to a terracotta head; fades and resets on a loop.
  • Arrow FieldA grid of colored arrows rotates and pulses in a slow flow-field current, each pointing direction driven by sine waves and radial angle from center.
  • Glyph GardenChildlike pictographs — fish, moon, arrow, face, tree, star, boat — drawn stroke-by-stroke on warm paper, held, then erased and reseeded in a cycling grid.
  • Polyphony GridA 16x6 color grid swept by a column playhead; active cells flash with scale and glow on each pass, voices re-seeded each lap for evolving compositions.
  • Twittering ContraptionFour Bauhaus-style wire birds bob on a horizontal wire and chirp musical notes while a hand-crank below spins. Inspired by Bauhaus's 1922 painting.
  • Colour Staircase9 color-graduated bars ascend like a staircase, each breathing in height and marching hue in staggered CSS keyframe loops. Warm parchment background.