Generative Art

I occassionally play around with the Processing or OpenFrameworks libraries to generate interesting images. Here are some samples. Some of the nicer images emerge from simple tricks like sampling sine waves in the polar coordinate system or drawing bezier curves with control points distributed in some repeating pattern around a circle.

The grainy sunflower-like picture is the pleasant result of my failed attempt at a N-body simulation, where I traced the path of every particle. I started the simulation with all of the particles distributed in a circle about the center. When let loose by the simulated laws of gravitational attraction, they raced towards the center. Lacking collisions, they shot out the opposite side of the circle, where they were beckoned back to the center by the cumulative attraction of their peers, tracing petals.