grid before grid

Folks...

I was playing with ( read: again cobbling together code ) the grid function and creating some ( what I thought was ) interesting results. I was just about ready to share this code and a new library for grid comes out that has what I was doing almost built in. And a very cool library of commands it is.

Well, be that as it may... here are a couple of examples of what I was fooling with:

First one with ovals

size(610,610)
web = ximport("web")
 
thesearch = "october"
colormode(RGB)
themes = web.kuler.search(thesearch)
thecolors = choice(themes)
 
for x, y in grid(8, 8, 75, 75):
    fill(0.2)
    c = color(0, 0, 0)
    stroke(c)
    strokewidth(2)
    rect(x+2, y+2, 70, 70,)
    path = rect(x+3, y+3, 68, 68, draw=False)
    beginclip(path)
    for i in range(15):
        c = choice(thecolors)
        stroke(c)
        strokewidth(random(50))
        radius = random(200)
        oval(random(x-70,x+140), random(y-70,y+140), radius, radius)
    endclip()

size(600,600)
colormode(HSB)
web = ximport("web")
rnd = ximport("random")
images = web.flickr.search("rap")
rnd.shuffle(images)
z = 0
for x, y in grid(8, 8, 75, 75):
    fill(0.2)
    c = color(0, 0, 0)
    stroke(c)
    strokewidth(2)
    rect(x, y, 70, 70,)
    path = rect(x, y, 70, 70, draw=False)
    beginclip(path)
    ##img = choice (images)
    img = images[z]
    f= img.download(thumbnail=True)
    w,h = imagesize(f)
    image(f, x, y, width=90)
    endclip()
    z += 1

Hi Frank,

Thanks for sharing your scripts! Even with the new Grid library these are still clear and useful NodeBox examples.