10/6/18
Board Size: 71×70
Edits: I changed the color of a few lines (mostly around the center), tweaked the settings within my program, and increased the saturation by 6 outside of my program. See the unedited version.
Notes: The image was generated with a new color palette I am testing designed to make the colors more natural. This contributed to the dynamic color shifts around the border created by the similarity shading.
For comparison, this is what the image looked like in my program before adding the similarity shading layer. This is the same image with a significant (+17) contrast increase, which my program does automatically after adding the similarity shading layer.
Edits: A slight adjustment to the settings that I am not sure makes it better than the original version.
Notes:
It’s a big blue wave.
Alternates
I strongly considered posting four images for this level on this page (as opposed to linking to the alternates).
Alternate #1 has no similarity shading, though the first version I saw of it did.
Alternate #2 is probably the most balanced version and does the center area better than any of the others in my opinion.
10/5/18
Today is geo day – I like to call a level geometric if it features long diagonals because they often result in geometric shapes. Last week‘s geo day was 9/27.
These two levels are both 63×63 – the last time I saw two really good geo patterns in one set the board size was 111×109 – over 3 times the size of these.
Edits: Several. See the unedited version.
Notes: Reminiscent of this level from the 111×109 gallery due to the multiple different shapes that somehow fit together.
The light color palette gives this an unusual, cartoony look especially for a geo pattern, since I almost always go with high contrast images for these.
Funnily enough, the highlight for me isn’t any of the well-defined shapes, but rather the squiggly loop the inner red line does in the top left, which is also the main reason I chose to go with the funny light colors.
Edits: Two minor line edits and a slight adjustment to the settings. I wasted a lot of time making this version, only to find that I liked the original version better (reminding me of why I decided to stop spending a lot of time editing images – I am not very good at it).
Notes: This one is far more serious and focused mostly on one main feature, similar to the other geo pattern in the 111×109 set.
While I wanted to pick one light and one dark/high contrast image for these two patterns, the choice wasn’t that easy.
There’s a really good light version of this level, and a really good dark version of the previous level that I could have chosen. I went with this combination instead mainly because I felt the light version gives the first pattern more personality than it does the second.
10/4/18
Board Size: 64×64
Edits: None
Notes: I like how there is something interesting in just about every area with little lines – highlighted by the light color palette. These areas don’t really work without the gravity effect that was part of The Natural Line Update.
10/3/18
Board Size: 70×69
Edits: A few minor line edits – see the original version
Notes: The thick stripes are an interesting contrast to the thin stripes of the image of the day on 9/29. I decided to go with the image that shows the lines the best even if the colors are slightly ugly. There are other versions with a thick reddish border around the center, a version with thin stripes and an extremely bright version that might be more impressive visually.
10/2/18
Board Size: 64×64
Edits: None
Notes: I think what I like about this most is the top/middle area. There are lots of interesting lines in this oddly shaped area that I would expect to be filled with mostly crap.
10/1/18
Board Size: 68×68
Edits: In an effort to make one version “better” than the other, I made a few line color changes for both. Unedited versions can be seen here and here.
Notes: I like how the bottom right area feels closer than the rest of the image – not to mention that it’s a pretty neat little shape that all of the lines within it follow.
09/30/18
Board Size: 64×64
Edits: None
Notes:
The colors give it a bit of a different look than any image I’ve posted yet in my opinion. This version has colors that are much more common in my galleries that I have been trying to avoid lately (mostly because I am sick of them).
The lineup of 9 dots against a diagonal line on the left is particularly interesting given the many different paths that the lines take from roughly the same starting point.
