The Beauty In Small Things
This collection marks a new page in my collection of rules-based emergent systems. Like my previous projects,it is based on millions of transparent lines interacting in unpredictable ways. This time, the following rules are applied:
- Place N circles in the canvas and pick a random point on each circle.
- Assign a color from the current palette to each point
- At each step, rotate the point along its circle, and draw a segment between the 2 closest points in the set.
Finding the closest points in a set is another classic computer science problem. This implementation uses the sweep line algorithm to avoid the O(n^2) complexity of the naive method.
Rendering still requires a good GPU (with the density at its maximum, it draws 5.7 million lines)
