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