Extra Polynymous
My PhD focused on the “Experimental Generation and Modeling of Vortical Gusts and Their Interactions with an Airfoil.” You can see my thesis here. I was interested in seeing the effect of a vortex interacting with a parallel wing. Most research on the topic has been based on helicopters or propellers, but those have periodically […]
I wanted to generate random hand-written letters and have them look like writing. I wanted each alphabet to have a unique style: aspect ratio of characters, sharpness, and number of strokes. In the following image, each row is a different generated alphabet. Seems to work alright. They are visually distinct, though sometimes too complicated. Now […]
Branching patterns are great. Here, the little movers die upon hitting a path, and respawn at the location of another mover. With some tweaks, this system can make a lot of nice patterns. You can even play with it online here! The basic version is here: That’s fun to watch evolve, but there are so […]
Using metaballs and thresholding, here’s an animated Rorschach blot: You can play with a variety of options at this link.
You can get pretty nice patterns just by moving circles around. Here are some of them. I vary the speed, wiggliness, transparency, and coloration.
Trees are nice branching things. Here’s some pictures with generated trees. If you want to generate your own, play with the snowy trees here, and the colorful trees here.
I wanted to make an image out of strings, like if the threads of a shag carpet were extended, and dyed to match the colors of an underlying image. The strings hanging statically are no fun, so I added some wind, based on Perlin noise. Here’s a gif of the result: There’s lots of different […]
This code randomly puts shapes on a background, and sees if the added shape brings the new image closer to a target image. If the shape does, it is jittered more until it’s done improving the image for a certain number of iterations. For example, using 40 triangles on the Lena image: Neat. How about […]
Also not very rigorous, but fun patterns. Basically divide the image up using quadtrees, and draw another sub-pattern if it needs to be darker. Check out squares: And circles: Not perfect, but I like the joining of the shapes.
Here’s another non-rigorous one! I was inspired by a post showing off a sort of string art: run black string along a series of pins on a white background, and build an image that way. Here’s a couple examples, using 100 pins arranged in a circle: The first image picks its path with the darkest […]