Generative Circles

I find it fascinating how simple rules can create complex patterns and behaviors. Flocks of birds. Fluid dynamics. Conway’s Game of Life. Traffic. Ant colonies. And so on. Inspired by these and by artists like @Inconvergent and Inigo Quilez (who are vastly more skilled and talented than I am), I spent two evenings writing some code to generate visually interesting variations on the circle.

The appearance of each circle depends on the value of about a dozen parameters. The core of the image generation is just 15 lines of code. Here are some of my favorites from the first batch.

July 2022