Instead, I look for multi-packs, but I'm not talking about the stuff from the supermarket, I show my love by hunting down some cool ones, going well off the beaten track (and not on the high street).
I've thought about designing my own for a while, but my graphics skills are a little lacking. Then I stumbled across an announcement about Primitive by Michael Fogleman.
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An owl, taken from Michael Fogleman's Github page |
So I downloaded the Go application he'd created and started looking for images to use as the starting point for my own, bespoke Christmas card. (Incidentally, if the command-line aspect is a turn-off and you have a Mac, you can grab a copy on the Mac Store, more details here.)
By way of example (these aren't the images I used, just some examples), here are a couple of images offered by Flickr users under a Creative Commons license. To be fair, either of them would have been good for a card as-is.
![]() Festive ... or something :) by Iain Farrell |
![]() Oh Christmas Tree.. by John W. |
![]() 500 triangles |
![]() 1,000 triangles | |
![]() 2,000 triangles |
![]() 4,000 triangles |
I went through a few more options on the bauble to show the range (as before, click for larger versions):
![]() 500 triangles |
![]() 500 rectangles | |
![]() 500 ellipses |
![]() 500 bezier curves | |
![]() 500 shapes (combo) |
![]() 1,000 triangles | |
![]() 2,000 triangles |
![]() 4,000 triangles |
So go have an artistic streak and see what you can come up with.
Massive thanks, obviously, to Michael for such great work and for releasing it so the rest of us get to play too!
Incidentally, if you're a fan of the work this app produces, Michael's created a bot posting a new image with random settings every 30 minutes to a dedicated Twitter account called @PrimitivePic. Check it out.
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