Revisiting my most recent #generativeart system. I found an interesting part of the parameter space that looks a bit 3D to me (lighter layers on top of darker layers). #Rtistry
Work in progress. I like this pattern a lot (left hand image) but if you rotate it 90 degrees (right hand image) it looks terrible! There's some weird perceptual thing going on with the vertical lines that I'm trying to break up.
In my head, the last few days have "felt" like Friday. In the midst of all the chaos, I miraculously am still chugging along with...everything I have to do. This week's #rtistry#ggplot2 work is for the "Wavescapes" chapter. In the last week, I've re-learned more about basic trigonometry than I care for. Here are some snapshots of some WIP outputs as I'm still trying to land on an example to go through step-by-step for the beginning of this chapter.
Still on the 'draw a fractal inside another fractal' thing. This is a julia set drawn inside something not entirely unlike a multibrot. Looking spookily organic.
Another iteration of my flow fields generative system. I do intend to fully describe how this works but the blog post timeline is suffering from perfectionism at the moment
Another set of more naturalistic outputs, but with softer lines than my previous mountain-like outputs. I've decided to call the system as a whole "Coastlines" as homage to the inspiration (Vera Molnár's "La Ciotat," which Google tells me is the name of a French coastal town) and as a reference to the system's natural features and primary shapes.
Bitwise 'and' forming a pattern that looks like Sierpinski triangles. I have no idea why this happens, though looking at the wikipedia entry for Sierpinski triangle it's likely related to the Pascals triangle construction.
It's interesting finding outputs from this generative system that work together - it feels similar to the card game "set" where the objective is to find cards where every feature (e.g., number of items or colour) is either the same or different across all of the cards. My previous piece and these two new ones have similar colour palettes, numbers of curves, and low-amplitude variability, but otherwise very different features.
Fun🤪fact: you can generate a julia set inside ðe mandelbrot set by just switching c to a constant halfway θru 🐱
(ðo a lot of points escape from ðis, so it's only visible wiθ escape time / orbit traps)