Notes ·
Four notes on how the site actually works
Seeds, renderers, third-party requests, and what a palette name does not claim.
Written by this site about itself. There is no byline because there is no reporter.
The notes section replaces what was going to be a journal. There is no byline on any of them, because there is no essayist: they are the site describing its own construction.
They cover why a seed rather than a stored picture, why one geometry feeds three renderers, what it costs to make a site that never talks to a third party, and what the palette names and plate titles do not claim.
That last one is the one worth reading if you read only one. The palettes are named for places on the island and the titles are assembled from two word lists, and neither is a statement about a subject. No colour was sampled anywhere and no plate depicts anything.