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Show HN: Metaballs
Generating gooey metaballs as a single SVG path — locating the tangent points between two circles, spreading and curving the connector with polar coordinates, and handling overlap, after Hiroyuki Sato's Illustrator script.
Varun Vachhar
DX engineer & Generative artist. I make minimalist visuals with code: limited palettes, simple geometry, looping motion, using canvas, SVG and shaders. By day I'm on the DX team for Storybook and Chromatic, working on tools to build, test, and document UIs.
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Noise in Creative Coding
Noise is an indispensable tool for creative coding. We use it to generate all kinds of organic effects like clouds, landscapes and contours. Or to move and distort objects with a more lifelike behaviour.