Inspiration: (1) The beautiful, mazelike, single-line drawings by the Polish architect and engineer Wacław Szpakowski (2) the serenity of Japanese zen gardens and (3) these kinetic art sand tables by Sisyphus
Description: Wanted to make something slow and peaceful, developing on the page. Each animated drawing is a single, uninterrupted line. And all the drawings are vectorized versions of Wacław Szpakowski's original works. I kinda gave up (for now) on a programmatic way to trace his lines that maintained the sharp corners and straight lines. I tried some out-of-the-box Python skeletonization libraries, medial axis transforms, etc but nothing quite got it. So what remains are squiggly vectors derived from Inkscape's “Bitmap Trace - Centerline" feature.
Sources
SVG Artista - very cool!
Devina - SVG minifier