What are Just Triangles and Random Sandwiches on tinyBots.net?

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Just Triangles and Random Sandwiches are two of the generative projects hosted on tinyBots.net, the personal project hub of Dave Schumaker. Just Triangles is a Twitter bot that procedurally generates random triangle patterns using color palettes from colormind.io, and you can also generate random triangles directly on the site. Random Sandwiches is a "book" of 1,449.5 randomly generated sandwich recipes created for NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generation Month) 2017, with its source code available on GitHub.

Just Triangles

Just Triangles is a Twitter bot that procedurally generates random triangle patterns. Its color choices come from palettes provided by colormind.io, a separate color-scheme service.

Two ways to engage with it:

  • Follow the bot on Twitter to see new triangle patterns as they are posted.
  • Generate your own random triangles through the site, if you want to produce patterns on demand rather than wait for the bot.

The project is generative rather than hand-drawn: the patterns are produced by code, and the palette input is what gives each output its color character.

Random Sandwiches

Random Sandwiches is a "book" of 1,449.5 random sandwich recipes. The count itself is unusual — the half recipe is part of how the project is described, not a rounding error to smooth over.

It was created for NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generation Month) 2017, an event built around generating a novel by code rather than writing it by hand. The source code for the project is available on GitHub, so you can inspect how the recipes are assembled.

Quick comparison

Project What it is Output Where to find it
Just Triangles Twitter bot generating random triangle patterns Triangle pattern images Twitter; also generate on the site
Random Sandwiches A generated "book" of 1,449.5 sandwich recipes Recipe text tinyBots.net; source on GitHub

How to choose

  • If you want visual, continuously posted generative art, Just Triangles is the relevant project — follow the bot or generate patterns yourself.
  • If you want a text-based generative artifact you can read or study, Random Sandwiches fits, and the GitHub source lets you see the generation logic.
  • If you are interested in how the projects are built, both are worth a look, but only Random Sandwiches is explicitly noted as having its source code available on GitHub.

Both projects sit alongside other tinyBots.net experiments such as ArtBot, Real Fake News, and Mr. RossBot, all described as internet projects by Dave Schumaker.