See it in use
- Portrait — inset plate
- Portrait — full bleed
- Landscape — split
- Landscape — band
As a website background
Northwind
Infrastructure that gets out of the way
A worked example — your pattern, sitting behind real page furniture.
Start buildingHow it works
Horizontal lines displaced by two sine waves whose wavelengths do not divide into one another, with a phase offset added per line so the family shears as it descends. A single wave would give every line the same fixed nodes and the sheet would gather into a few dark seams; two incommensurate waves never repeat over the width, so the crests drift out of step and the fabric keeps folding somewhere new. The gathers you see are not drawn — they are where neighbouring lines happen to converge.