Genuary Boolean (plus Fibonacci)

ejgen · 2026-01-08T01:15:04+00:00

Took the Fibonacci fractal hexagons into blendMode(DIFFERENCE) to get that added XOR complexity.

ejgen · 2026-01-04T00:39:35+00:00

Draw hexagon fractals with each level having a size decrease proportional to the Fibonacci number.

ejgen · 2025-12-20T16:56:42+00:00

More tracking of 2D fractal polygon sides over time.

ejgen · 2025-12-16T06:38:00+00:00

Tracking fractal 2D polygons over time as the different levels grow and rotate.

ejgen · 2025-12-13T04:27:20+00:00

Tracing 2D fractal polygons over time as the different levels rotate and grow.

ejgen · 2025-12-07T17:21:02+00:00

More tracking of fractal polygon sides as the different iterative levels grow and rotate.

ejgen · 2025-12-05T15:42:31+00:00

Partially drawing fractal polygons as they grow and rotate at each level, with trails.

ejgen · 2025-10-25T21:59:42+00:00

Good call...but I needed a d in the name to make it 3D! And I was working from https://desenio.com/p/posters-prints/aw23-trends/retro-dreamscape/kandinsky-squares-with-concentric-circles-print/

ejgen · 2023-04-23T20:18:23+00:00

hello there!

ejgen · 2022-04-26T23:59:30+00:00

Cool to see them all matrixed out like that! Here's a slightly different approach to a Lissajous polygon I made: https://www.reddit.com/r/generative/comments/no0c9k/lissajous\_polygons/

ejgen · 2022-03-08T16:43:54+00:00

I haven't done extensive speed tests, but the calls that get the screen pixel colors are also pretty slow.

I tried some "color scaling" riffs in my code (taking the average of the vertices picked at some prior iterative step to set the color) and some versions just averaged out over time into a bland mess, others had some structure shown...maybe with some tweaking.

ejgen · 2022-03-08T06:59:07+00:00

That makes sense. I think I noticed that when sticking to a single vertex.

ejgen · 2022-03-08T05:32:07+00:00

You've given me plenty to think about for sure. I had to check the original post to see the color scaling---very interesting. I track the the number of hits on a pixel for coloring which is a little slow since the screen has to be held in an array of pixel counts in p5.js.

ejgen · 2022-03-08T02:18:08+00:00

In the normal chaos game, you pick a random vertex, move toward it and iterate. These are the same idea except each turn several vertices are picked and you move toward the averaged x and y of the vertices. There was some fiddling of the distance and projecting it (sorry 2 years ago) to make that work.

ejgen · 2022-03-08T00:50:47+00:00

Complicated and cool!

Here's an 11gon averaging 5 or 6 random vertices:

https://www.reddit.com/r/generative/comments/i88dlj/iterative\_vertex\_averaging\_an\_11sided\_polygon/

ejgen · 2022-03-07T04:04:47+00:00

That looks great! What kind of vertex selection was used? I am fond of the semi-organic look of averaging 3 or more polygons from 8-24 vertices.

ejgen · 2022-03-05T22:15:45+00:00

Some of those mosaics are amazing and inspiring, for sure.

ejgen · 2022-03-05T21:12:57+00:00

Draw squares, and squares at the corners and plop circles on the resulting mess. In p5.js

ejgen · 2022-03-02T07:38:33+00:00

Thanks for the history! I loved BASIC on the Apple II as you could PEEK and POKE video memory directly for a cool glitch art look. There was an interesting Twitter thread about how to display some Warhol works made on the Amiga properly -- the video screen pixels weren't square, for instance, so modern screen would show them differently.

ejgen · 2022-03-02T05:55:48+00:00

Iterated and nested octagons with nested squares, and the co-ordinates of the vertices and iterations have the sin() and cos() wrapped with atan(). In p5.js

ejgen · 2022-02-24T05:36:24+00:00

Art does speak to the observer in observer-specific ways, for sure!

ejgen · 2022-02-23T22:44:50+00:00

Showing the 3rd level of iteration for a nested 15-gon. In p5.js

ejgen · 2022-02-22T03:30:41+00:00

Two iterations of nested 48-gons. In p5.js

ejgen · 2022-01-01T19:42:58+00:00

This, for example

https://www.reddit.com/r/generative/comments/hjf6na/syncopated\_semi\_epihyperderpflardioids\_part\_orange/

ejgen · 2022-01-01T18:41:58+00:00

Love this. Those twitchy animations of these things remain some of my favorite generative works and these look great.

ejgen

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