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If you have an iPhone, like being reminded of HAL, and enjoy burning your retinas like I do—then this is the wallpaper for you:



Just bring up this post on your phone, tap one of the thumbnails below, then long-tap the full image to save it locally.



I generated these with Python and matplotlib. They're a few of the frames I used to put together these animated gifs.

I had some fun with circle patches, hue shifts, and voronoi diagrams. I feel like I'm getting closer to understanding screen savers circa 1992.

These were inspired by the palettes and lines in Bridget Riley's color paintings:




If you're ok with twitchy things you can make them move.

Bridget Riley uses color and tessellating patterns in her paintings. The colors in Nataraja, 1993 feel chaotic to me but the lines provide the harmony. I used a script to add a different kind of tessellation on top which breaks the whole thing:

How about three Eames chairs barely rendered as various sized dots?

PAW, 1952. DSR, 1954. And LCW, 1946.