We were all born with a jewel in our heart – golden, shining. Maybe you call it love, or the divine, or beauty. The trials of life can cover up that jewel, and make it hard to see the beauty within. We think we’re not worthy, not lovable. But that’s a lie. The jewel is always there. You just need to clean off the gunk. We are all made of love and supernovas. You always were, and always will be - radiant.

Radiant was created generatively in p5.js. Seven possible radial designs overlap on two canvases. On the top canvas, circles or arcs are erased to reveal the canvas below. There are four ways the background gets created, mostly using Perlin noise to pick colors from the palette. There are 34 hand-crafted palettes of 7 colors each.

Original pixel density 1 with grain added automatically.
After pressing “open”:
2 – 5 to increase pixel density.
g to add grain. Adding grain takes a while at pixel density 5.
s to save a png.
Screen resize renders at pixel density 1.

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