circuit-boards is a “generator of seamless tiles that resemble circuit boards.” It can produce seemingly printed circuit board (PCB) under untrained eyes, but with a background, you can tell these are far from making any senses.

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It’s not close enough to actual PCBs, but it’s good enough for seeing something, it even has text overlay, though those text doesn’t seem to be in any naming conventions, probably just randomly generated strings. It has five preset styles, default, yello-green, old-style, dark-blue, and blue-yellow.

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From top-left: blue-yellow, old-style, yello-green, default

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In order: dark-blue, old-style, yello-green, default, blue-yellow

This remind me of the time with those EDA softwares, drawing schematics, doing the simulations, generating the PCB, then let the computer laying everything. Watching the parts moved and rotated, routes laid and relaid, and it goes on and on and on, until everything fits within the restraints. That’s a joy to watch.

circuit-boards was made by Paul Nechifor on 2013-08-09, licensed under the MIT License, written in CoffeeScript.