Online are several clever and well publicized programs for making abstract art of various kinds, ImageMixer, Dekaf, Viscosity, Mutapic, Bomomo and even Wordle. But on most pages on this website you will find original computer generated SVG abstract art. You need Firefox to see them directly, or the Adobe plug-in for browsers that are not SVG ready. Firefox is free software. Look at the page source to see the SVG code that produces each picture. Copy it if you like it, edit it if you wish, and either way, if you have something that looks good, send it to sites like Open Clipart (http://www.openclipart.org/) to share with others. It would be nice to mention us, if you do, but who’s checking?
Click a tab to generate SVG art in this window. Click again to change it, but the previous one is gone forever, so save any you like first! You could get the SVG code (in <svg></svg> tags) from the source, but some, like Imix, use gif images for remixing, and require the images to mix them into the svg script. You can use a screen capture program like Jan’s capiche to grab the picture from the screen to the clipboard to be pasted into your graphics program and saved as a gif, png or jpg, as you wish. This will capture the whole image, gif images too, so is the way to keep the Imix quilt-like abstracts and others that use gifs as textures. Register with www.openclipart.org to make your pictures available to others. The computer holds no copyright to each picture it makes, so it is yours, if you want it.
In these cases, if you want to save one of the creations, just select “File: Save As...” in your browser and save it as “yourname.svg”. Again mixing images will not be saved, but you can supply your own images for “Image Mix”, and some of the others that use images. Here they are 150px x 120px gif images. Put them in a folder (called “bg”) at the same level as the image, and naming them— eg ./bg/bg064.gif —according to the names like ./bg/bg064.gif in the svg code. You have to look. Effectively you have an abstract template for your images!
A gallery of previously generated art is here at the “awt” gallery!
Catholics are fond of relics, such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, short-ribs of the saints, the ears of Balaam’s ass, the lung of the cock that called Peter to repentance and so forth. A reliquary is a receptacle to hold them, and is commonly of metal, and provided with a lock to prevent the contents from coming out and performing unexpected miracles. Bishop Ambrose reports that a feather from the wing of the Angel of the Annunciation once escaped during a sermon in Saint Peter’s and so tickled the noses of the congregation that they woke and sneezed with great vehemence three times each.
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