Comments on: Cicadients

By: Jesse Gardner

Jesse Gardner — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:48:36 +0000

Excellent! Next I'd like to see CSS-gradient mesh artwork.

By: Christopher Bullock | A Cicadient Experiment

Christopher Bullock | A Cicadient Experiment — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 04:36:57 +0000

[...] I didn’t think much about it until Eric Meyer wrote about it in a blog post entitled, “Cicadients“. What Eric did was realize that CSS3 gradients could follow this same principle. Lea [...]

By: Gerald

Gerald — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:20:23 +0000

Wow, that’s really cool. I can’t believe I’ve used images before, when I could have just use that. Thanks for this, will definitely try them out.

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:26:22 +0000

Thanks, folks! Of course, the real credit goes to Alex Walker for devising the Cicada Principle and sharing it with the world. All I did was rework it in another format, which isn’t clever so much as cunning. Not that there’s anything wrong with that!

(Also, Norcross, apologies for the redaction. I still worry about people who visit from workplaces that run content-filter proxies, so I chose to take the redact-and-publish route rather than dump the comment entirely.)

By: Lea Verou

Lea Verou — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 07:37:11 +0000

Well done! My patterns gallery had something similar for a while http://lea.verou.me/css3patterns/#cicada-stripes but it just used the cicada principle, didn’t follow one of their patterns. I love what you did there :)

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 01:11:55 +0000

couldn't you add Fozzy Bear into Nº 2 on retina displays? #rimshot via twitter

By: Norcross

Norcross — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:57:50 +0000

This is some mind bending [REDACTED]. And it’s amazing.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:49:44 +0000

You, sir, have a robot brain. I always suspected, but now I know.

This is just wonderful.