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Learning CSS through Creating Art

Ali Spittel on November 25, 2017

Earlier this week, one of my co-workers found a single div all CSS image of Admiral Grace Hopper by Trish Katz on CodePen. It seemed like magic —...
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Nashia Fairuz

Wow I had no idea this was possible! 🌟

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Gonzalo Quintas

Hi Ali! Thanks a lot. Your article was super inspiring and clear.
I´m pretty sure that the code can be MUCH better, but I´m pretty happy with the final result:

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dasrecord

CSS IS rough... especially for non web dev kids lol
I've written a little script that blasts some content out into the world. what data points and types would you need - supposing I wanted a dark background, a bunch of cool geometry with of polygonal symmetry of "n" sides etc. etc.. and your code spit out a piece of artwork?
i'm new to coding by I could perhaps send a webhook with the values in JSON format... could this be built as a standalone api?

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Saurabh Sharma

did you listened about Codevember?

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Ali Spittel

I have heard of it! It sounded like a lot for this year, but maybe next year! Did you participate?

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Saurabh Sharma

I made 1 or 2, I had exams this month.

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z0al • Edited

Nice! This inspires me to do the same. Thank you for sharing your experience

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dasrecord

this is AWESOME....

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Eliabe França

that's pretty awesome

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David S.

That's really neato. You get one unicorn ( which is better than a heart, isn't it? )