Art From Code

Someone mentioned in a comment over at http://www.25lines.com that Math.random() should be outlawed.
At first I didn’t agree, but there’s truth in the fact that there are much more interesting patterns to be gained by abandoning random and getting unpredictable coordinates otherwise. Here I’m using a Pickover strange attractor.

Of course, infinite variation isn’t enough.
Here, I messed with the formula in different, random ways.

Discovered here:

http://www.subblue.com/blog/2008/9/25/gumowski-mira_patterns

but grabbed the formula here:

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/StrangeAttractorOfGumowskiMira/

and made my own app.

One million particles plotted via formulas revised from Computers and the Imagination by Clifford Pickover.

One million particles plotted via formulas revised from Computers and the Imagination by Clifford Pickover.

Close to 1,000,000 points plotted.

Full size is 4000×4000, rendered and saved from a single Flash 10 Bitmap.