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George Francis
George Francis

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CodePen - Generative Soft Gradients [SVG]

I have been seeing these soft + colorful gradients around a lot recently and thought it would be cool to make some generative ones. They pair really nicely with the new "glassmorphism" trend!

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James Robb

Again, some awesome work dude, you’re really good at this kind of thing!

One question, I’ve never used the ~~ operator before, can you explain what you use that for perhaps?

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George Francis

Ah, thanks so much James!

For sure, ~~ is being used here in place of Math.floor() to remove the decimals from the number. It is a habit i got into as it is slightly faster and a bit more terse, but honestly it's probably not the best for readability!

I'm actually not sure why I added it there now, perhaps I was planning on stripping the decimals from the values to make the SVG markup a little nice when inspecting, but I didn't follow through in the rest of the pen :)

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James Robb

I see, curiously, and maybe you don't have the answer but: I assume ~ does one things and ~~ does another? Like ! and !! for example. Do you know what that difference is though?

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George Francis

Oof, that's about the limits of my knowledge I'm afraid. I know that you are correct in saying a single tilde does another thing, but I have no idea what!