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Spiral Triangle

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Last edited Feb 9, 2016

Created on Apr 16, 2015

A mesmerizing, topologically impossible animation shows a spiral of black-stroked white squares rotating and translating within two triangular clipping regions. The piece recreates a GIF by PATAKK, using an SVG scene with upper and lower clip paths. The code uses d3.v3’s `d3.selectAll`, `d3.range`, and `d3.timer` to drive square transforms, while each square’s position and rotation are computed from a normalized index and elapsed time.

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A partial recreation of a mesmerizing (and topologically impossible!) untitled GIF by PATAKK.

gpl-3.0 Licensed

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