Random impermanence
Posted on March 30, 2025
Here we create a random mandala each time the page is refreshed. It uses random combinations of the shapes I've created so far. I'll add more and better shapes along the way. This is a good step towards using these as data visualizations since we'll want the mandalas to be a visual representation of data. Some of these mandalas will be more aesthetically pleasing than others. I sometimes find myself wanting to go back to the last one. But it's gone forever. Which reminds me of sand mandalas! Traditionally the artists destroy them when they're finished. To remind themselves of the lesson of impermanence. Nothing lasts forever. "It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not." Thich Nhat Hanh