{"id":250,"date":"2019-10-09T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T02:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/?p=250"},"modified":"2019-10-09T10:53:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T02:53:21","slug":"minimalism-a-quilt-color-doodler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/09\/minimalism-a-quilt-color-doodler\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimalism: A Quilt Color Doodler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webble.orangecrayon.com\/quilt\">Try the doodler<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bahiyyih is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B3YMpa9gVQX\/\">making a quilt<\/a>, and she was looking for someone to make a color sketch of her design. She said the word <strong>gradient<\/strong>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Web\/CSS\/linear-gradient\">had to do it<\/a>. But I had to do it quickly because I was competing with how long it would take to draw it physically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webble.orangecrayon.com\/quilt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-from-2019-10-08-22-03-19.png\" alt=\"Quilt Color Doodler\" class=\"wp-image-251\" width=\"238\" height=\"617\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Quilt Color Doodler<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webble.orangecrayon.com\/quilt\">Go play with the quilt color doodler<\/a>. It does just barely enough to play with the colors. And the UI is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/userinyerface.com\/\">hilariously terrible<\/a><\/em>. Think of it, rather, as a puzzle. Can <em>you<\/em> figure out how it&#8217;s supposed to work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It <em>does<\/em> let you change:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>the colors \u2014 as long as you like diagonal gradients<\/li><li>the size \u2014 any rectangle you want<\/li><li>the color pickers &#8230; okay that was a diversion<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t let you change:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>the pattern \u2014 Bahiyyih had already chosen <a href=\"http:\/\/quiltinghistory.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/stars-ablaze-quilt-2.html\">Stars Ablaze<\/a><\/li><li>the direction of the gradient<\/li><li>what prints \u2014 it&#8217;s just the quilt<\/li><li>the default colors \u2014 resetting always takes you back to the colors Bahiyyih ended up choosing (although it does save any changes you make, until you hit Reset)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are so many directions it could go next. I&#8217;m not used to working this way \u2014 make something quick and dirty, and then call it done and move on. It&#8217;s probably therapeutic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try the doodler. Bahiyyih is making a quilt, and she was looking for someone to make a color sketch of her design. She said the word gradient, and had to do it. But I had to do it quickly because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/09\/minimalism-a-quilt-color-doodler\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fleeting","category-life","category-techno-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}