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The Cicada Principle and Why It Matters to Web Designers - SitePoint
www.sitepoint.com/the-cicada-principle-and-why-it-matters-to-web-designers/, posted 2013 by peter in css design graphics howto math webdesign
As you can see, the tiles overlap and interact to generate new patterns and colors. And as we’re using magical prime numbers, this pattern will not repeat for a long, long time. § Exactly how long? 29px × 37px × 53px… or 56,869px! § Now this was something of a revelation to me. I actually had to triple-check my calculations, but the math is rock solid. Remember these are tiny graphics — less than 7kb in total — yet they are generating an area of original texture of almost 57,000 pixels wide.