Supernova
While working on a reference implementation in Actionscript for a demo effect, I accidentally ended up with this beauty. It’s based on the lovely City Traveler algorithm by Jared Tarbell with only a few minor adjustments actually. I thought I’d share nevertheless :) Be sure to stop it at some point, otherwise it will go on and on forever, eating up you cpu time.
As always, I also provide a larger version.
You can also dig out the source from the Processing repository, but it’s now buried under the more recent revision of the effect i was actually going for. So if you’re interested, better drop me a line ;)
August 18th, 2008 at 21:18
Very nice acutally.
I captured it at a certain point, creating a beautiful wallpaper for my business notebook.
August 25th, 2008 at 19:55
Here is a version in 1920×1200 in case you want even higher res ;)
http://dirty-motherfucker.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/supernova_1920.swf
September 1st, 2008 at 15:34
<3
October 13th, 2008 at 16:36
Hello, i just discovered this awesome script sfw “Supernova”, i have some code from Tarbell also, i was wondering how this and Tarbell’s Substrate algorithm code could be adjusted to generate really large high res prints
http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/substrate/
October 13th, 2008 at 16:55
You can look at my port of Substrate. The resolution is really not important. As the algorithm is iterative there is no performance difference. The only limitation is the maximum stage size Flash supports. This limit has been raised with Flash Player 10 though.