Come Together

Oh my. There are actually two of these now. This is, in fact, the only reason that there's a website to house them; two points are all you need to create a sequence, and even the smallest of sequences suggests a full-blown series. And, it seems, I can't fathom housing an actual, factual series in half-assed, thrown-together islands of HTML accessible only through links in my blog.

So, a website appeared, summoned from the ether, designed solely by tweaking and adjusting the very first website I ever designed. This cute little window inside a huge sea of background color, the title bar the same height as all my other title bars, they're shared characteristics among the (I'm guessing, at this point) five websites I've thrown together. Most notably, in this design and in the comic itself, I strove to use mainly colors spaced in an even interval of HTML coloring. #000045, #450045, #754575, et cetera.

Except I completely forgot an important facet of HTML colors: they're in hexadecimal. The difference between 00 and 15 is not fifteen, but twenty-one; further confounding my efforts, the difference between 15 and 30 is not fifteen either, or even twenty-one, but twenty-seven. Further still, neither of these intervals can evenly divide the two hundred fifty-six possible amounts of red, green, or blue.

Luckily for me, these design choices only seem moronic and ridiculous in a world governed by logic and mathematics. Design is only kind of such a world. From what I can tell, almost any design can be successful if there is some pattern, any pattern at all, beneath it. The fact that the pattern I chose makes no sense mathematically does not offend the eye. Rather, the fact that I consistently adhere to my crazy, backward coloring scheme pleases it.

So it turns out I'll take any opportunity I can get to blather. The text at the bottom stays after all.