This week I worked with creating patterns, sometimes with unexpected results. After some playing around I arrived at two evolving patterns:
1) Childhood reimagined
When I was a child I loved drawing a specific pattern using grid paper. It was very soothing and took alot of effort, patience and time.
I wanted to recreate this pattern using computing, which surprisingly also took a lot of effort. While I was coding, I made several mistakes which resulted in unexpected and interesting patterns. Here are some of the ‘mistake’ results:
Finally I arrived at the right pattern:
When I made mistakes in the code, I quite liked some of the patterns, so I decided to randomize several parameters and see what happens. Here is the result [link to code]:
2) Mars and Jupiter’s solar rave
I got inspired by an animation of Mars and Jupiter orbits around the sun that I saw on someone twitter
I found it very hypnotic and beautiful, reminding me of a stellar dance. I wondered what different orbits and speeds would look like. Voila, welcome to the solar rave! [link to code]