Click on it to pause/resume playback. Reload the page to get a new seed variation and some different colours.
Alternatively, here’s a basic web interface which allows you to switch between 640x360, 960x540, and 1280x720. You can also bookmark the seed if it creates nice results, or simply input your own seed by editing the URL. The content itself is not ‘real’ random, it’s based on a seeded pseudo-random number generator, making it possible to get identical results every time if you wish. http://illformed.org/temp/gen/
I’ve been tweaking this code for a few months now. I’m aiming to have it create more useful/thoughtful designs, using some kind of analysis of what has already been drawn, so that it can then attempt to balance out the various elements. I thought about possibly breaking the screen down into logical zones, then keeping track of each zone’s “weight”, and whether fine detail has been drawn there, or just larger shapes. Hopefully this will allow me to produce some stuff with more intent behind it. I’m still really happy with the results so far, but there’s still a lot of stuff that needs to be toned down and fine-tuned.
Anyway, cheers everyone, I’m glad you all enjoyed it
Perhaps I will consider this a bit later when I’ve cleaned it up, but I’m not sure. I wrote this from scratch myself, and I’m trying to develop the algorithms into something more intelligent, with a bit more artistic purpose behind it. Depending on how useful it seems to me, I may not want to simply give away those custom algorithms. At the moment it’s still very specialised, but I may develop it further into a more generic suite of tools for creating these kind of images, allowing for a variety of style choices such as flat graphics, or more textured brush strokes, etc. I’ll definitely give it some thought, though.
I’m also planning to have an alternate mode, where the user will be able to “paint” with the algorithm. This would allow you to put more thought into the overall composition, while still retaining the interesting random aspect. You would draw basic movements over the canvas, causing this weird geometry to grow from your selected points. Should be pretty interesting.
The console is something nifty that Andreas Rønning - aka Sunjammer - is developing. To be honest, I totally forgot that I was using it here, since I only gave it a quick test a few weeks go. I’ll just remove it now that you’ve pointed out my mistake
At the moment I just have 4 colour palettes that I picked out, which get chosen at random. User-defined colours is a good idea and definitely possible. I’d also like to eventually have sliders to tweak the various parameters and fine-tune the output.
It may be possible to figure something out in the future, but at the moment this is all just very simple 2D bitmap manipulation, so there’s no real 3D data being processed. Anything involving real perspectives would probably mean a serious redesign of the whole engine.
Too late… i already have injected several malicious script onto your server which will disrupt your laundry machine, your blowdryer and your heatingsystem tonight.
Didn’t wanna start a new thread for this heh, but I’ve recently decided to get some kind of “engine” going again whee! It will take ages though, considering how much time I already spent looking at three spinning triangles
I don’t even dare to play around with morphing opacity and colors on that, I know better
I really wish I could make stuff like this… It’s amazing! I made the switch to electronic music a long time ago, but my graphical art is still stuck in the dark ages of ink and markers…
same here,
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