Genuary 2026

January 01, 2026

Time for another Genuary! I will post the daily images on my Mastodon, and will archive them here periodically through the month.

Jan. 1 - One Color, One Shape

Today's prompt is "One color, one shape". I chose to make a hepta of heptagons made from blue heptagons.

Jan. 2 - Twelve Principles of Animation

For Genuary 2, I focused on just one of the twelve principles of animation - arcs. I've been exploring SVG <animation> elements, so I used one to animate a ball along an arc <path>. Then got carried away and made perhaps a few too many.

Jan. 3 - Fibonacci Forever

For Genuary 3, I'm recycling an orbit-trap fractal I shared back on Fibonacci Day (11/23, of course). It uses the typical fractal equation z ↦ zⁿ + z₀, but n increases following the Fibonacci sequence with each iteration.

Jan. 4 - Low Resolution

I made a Julia set fractal with resolution animated starting at 6x6 pixels, increasing to 180x180 and back.

Jan. 5 - Write "Genuary" without using a font

Today's prompt is to write "Genuary" without using a font. I'm always intrigued by those "Inhabited Initials" found in older books, where the first letter of a paragraph is drawn using fancy illustrations, so I attempted to write the word by pulling images of these initials from Wikimedia Commons. Initially, I wanted to automate scraping of the images from the site, but the search results were too inconsistent (searching for "A" returns images of other letters too), so I ended up manually curating the images. Try making your own words here.