Textile

Beads

Bead weaving: one bead per cell, strung row by row.

Beads: a textile effect on the built-in sample photograph. Computed on your machine right now.
Open Beads in the studio

Controls

cell
Size of one bead in source pixels
stagger
How far each row is offset from the last. Half a bead is how beadwork is actually strung — rows nest instead of stacking
gap
Space between beads, so the thread shows between them
hole
How large the hole through the bead is
gloss
How glassy the beads are. At zero they are matte and the work reads as a mosaic rather than as beads
jitter
How unevenly the beads sit on the thread. Strung beads never line up perfectly
thread
A colour, #1a1712 by default.
contrast
A number from -1 to 1, 0 by default.

Starting points

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