variart to generate a new and unique variation
variart Nine squares on a grid of three by three, each one given over to chance: 'variart' is the simplest possible statement of the principle that underpins everything around it. The palette is hardly a palette at all, black at an arbitrary opacity and so every gray between presence and absence, and the restraint is precisely the point, refusing the distraction of color so that structure alone carries the work. No two arrangements are alike, the possibilities running to the billions of billions, and the grid before you has in all likelihood never been seen and will not come again. It is the piece from which the site takes both its name and its mark, a small square insisting that a rule and a random number are enough.
Source Code Every variart piece is a small program. This is the one that drew what you're looking at.
var w = width / 3 ;
for (var x = 0 ; x < 3 ; x++) {
for (var y = 0 ; y < 3 ; y++) {
s.rect(x * w, y * w, w, w)
.attr({
fill: "#000" ,
fillOpacity: Math .random()
})
}
}