Sol LeWitt Exercise with JS

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Sol LeWitt Exercise with JS

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Last edited Nov 26, 2023

Created on Nov 21, 2023

An SVG built with vanilla JavaScript recreates a Sol LeWitt-inspired wall drawing by layering two sets of 100 striped rectangles. Horizontal and vertical black bars cross the full viewport, but a pair of circular masks restricts visibility: one mask shows only the horizontal stripes inside a 200-pixel circle, while the second reveals vertical stripes outside that same radius. The result is a clean, conceptual grid where the two orientations visually swap at the circle's boundary, using the SVG `mask` element and dynamic element creation via `document.createElementNS`.

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Solomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, photography, painting, installation, and artist's books. Wikipedia

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