About Wedges// I think it was when I was building Derek Israelsen’s website, that I needed a pie chart that would act as an hourglass. We’ve seen them everywhere before, but I have always hated the abruptness of a pie chart all the sudden disappearing once it reaches 100% full only to start over for the next iteration. On top of that, the old Flash hack of creating those filling pie charts by using a MovieClip with 2 semicircle masks animated on the timeline wasn’t cutting it for me either. I went searching online and found a pie chart script written by Keith Peters. The version of the script I found online never quite worked for me, so I altered it a bit so that the pies weren’t wonky looking, then upgraded it to include the feature I came up with that a pie chart should empty the same way it fills, creating a perpetual, smooth effect.

That feature ended up being removed from Derek’s website in the end, but I was having so much fun with the ease of using that class I wrote that I decided to make some generative art with it which is what you see here, although I converted it over to canvas rather than Flash now.