Could have milked 10 days of content out of this, but I’ll dump it on you all at once. 🙂

p = e^cos(θ) – 2 cos(4 θ) + sin⁵(θ/12)

or in ActionScript:

var r:Number = Math.exp(Math.cos(i)) – 2 * Math.cos(i * 4) + Math.pow(Math.sin(i / 12), 5);

r = radius, θ = angle. Figure out the x and y from there.

Randomly scale, position, rotate. Coat with bevel and dropshadow. Bake at 350Ëš for 30 minutes. Serves 5.

Dug up in Computers and the Imagination by Clifford Pickover.

Output of a proof of concept for an application I want to write.

Nothing amazing, but it’s the first step to a pretty cool idea I have.

Another file off the old hard drive. This one actually has nothing to do with the Particle Storm one, but obviously I was thinking along the same lines that day.

Have this insane goal to try to post something every day. I doubt I’ll keep up, but I’ll try. Anyway, digging around my hard disk I found a revision of a piece I called “Particle Storm” that I posted on BIT-101 a while back.

Ran it a couple of times and came up with this: