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While it's cool, I don't think it's particularly mysterious. When playing around with graphical algorithms you step on these kinds of patterns all the time.
by VMG 14y ago
While it's cool, I don't think it's particularly mysterious. When playing around with graphical algorithms you step on these kinds of patterns all the time.
- madmax108 14y ago+1 to that. I remember computer graphics classes in college where we'd basically start off with a fixed algorithm and then play around with random variables and steps and end up with stuff that looked amazing (even though noone really knew why!) :P
- DanBC 14y agoI seem to remember JWZ saying that some screensavers were mistakes. And the Fractint stone soup people included many "error" algorithms.
- ec00 14y agoI feel like sharing the strange flood-fill algorithm i once stumbled upon: https://vimeo.com/699396 https://vimeo.com/699396
- joshu 14y agoGorgeous.
- akx 14y agoYep, one does. That's what happened. :) But this struck me as particularly weird for being so intricate being based on such a simple variation of the basic pixel-by-pixel floodfill formula.