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Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Trianglify - low poly style background generator

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Trianglify is a javascript library for generating colorful triangle meshes that can be used as SVG images and CSS backgrounds.


It was inspired by btmills/geopattern, and uses d3.js to build the polygons and SVG and SVG filters for rendering. It also includes the colorbrewer color palette library to get you up and running quickly. It was written in a single day because I got fed up with Adobe Illustrator.


1. INCLUDE JS FILES


<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script src="trianglify.js"></script>

2. JAVASCRIPT


Create a new Trianglify instance and use it to generate patterns:



var t = new Trianglify();
var pattern = t.generate(800, 600); // svg width, height
pattern.svg // SVG DOM Node object
pattern.svgString // String representation of the svg element
pattern.base64 // Base64 representation of the svg element
pattern.dataUri // data-uri string
pattern.dataUrl // data-uri string wrapped in url() for use in css
pattern.append() // append pattern to <body>. Useful for testing.


For example, to generate a background for <body> and apply it with inline CSS:


var t = new Trianglify();
var pattern = t.generate(document.body.clientWidth, document.body.clientHeight);
document.body.setAttribute('style', 'background-image: '+pattern.dataUrl);

Colors: a list of all the available colorbrewer palettes available can be found here


3. OPTIONS


The constructor takes an optional options object where you can override the default values for Trianglify like so:


var t = new Trianglify(cellsize: 100, bleed: 150, ...);


Trianglify - low poly style background generator

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