My good friend Mike Levy has been working on a Tartan Generator as a small freelance project for a performance artist here on campus. After a bit of work this evening, he and I managed to get it to parse the existing Tartan file format (can you believe such a thing exists?) and do some clever tweening between randomly picked historically accurate plaid patterns using my Shapetween library.

I think the result is pretty sexy. His next steps are going to be tweaking those colors. I’m sure these colors look great when selected from dyed yarns, but on screen we just need nicer color translations.