Category: Experiments
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Messing around with the canvas mask api
This is just a quick little demo using the mask API call. It ended up looking a little nicer than I thought it would, so I figured I’d show it. Related Images:
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Random dynamics on a triangular grid
I’m dipping my feet into random and monte carlo methods and wanted to try it out with a triangular grid after finding a few beautiful images on pinterest. I’m just picking grid elements at random and then swaping the values with an adjacent tile. Everything random moves things around, random plus not separating matching tiles…
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Fractal Drawing Tool – Users Guide
Fractal Designer I’m trying to put together some instructions and add some context for the tool I’ve been using to create the fractal images on the site. I’ve made some updates to the usability and features, adding the ability to upload an image to imgur. This is only the second rev, and the first of…
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Flitter and flutter
This is a combination of two previous demos, Winter Bubbles and gravitational slingshot. I’m not sure I like the behavior around the centers of attraction, but it is the best so far. I do like the pulsing trails and color scheme. I’m really trying to branch out there. Related Images:
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Nothing fancy: Winter bubbles
My inspiration board on pinterest has been filling up, so I wanted to take a few hours to whip up something quick. I really liked the simplicity of winter trees. I didn’t want to do a direct copy, so this is my riff on the composition. Related Images:
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Forgot to upload this image
After scanning through my blog after the South by Southwest Interactive festival, I realized that I never uploaded an image for my tribute to Ablaze.js. Related Images:
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Islands of stability
This time I mapped the pendulum angle and time onto the surface of a cone to create a tunnel effect. For the parameter space I’m looking at, you can really see how the paths will converge for a while and then suddenly diverge wildly. Related Images:
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Sensitive dependence on initial conditions
This next demo highlights the butterfly effect. These curves show the same pendulum as before, this version has the time axis wrapped around the center of the screen and the exponential of the angle as the radius. All the pendulums start at a very similar initial position and for some driving functions they diverge wildly…
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Ensemble #2
This is more of what I was thinking of when I started down this route. These are ensembles of particle paths in a chaotic dynamical system. Not only are these ensemble pictures beautiful, but they highlight some interesting mathematics and physics. But what I’ve really been after is a better source of semi regular noise.…
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Ensemble #1
I’m continuing with the envelope series, this time with an ensemble of states of a damped driven pendulum. One of the “classic” chaotic systems. This one isn’t in a chaotic regime, but striking none the less. Related Images: