River - Paths over Time
This is a coding exploration inspired by flying over rivers while flying. I was inspired…
Tagged: programming poem
Growth - Fungal State
Growing geometry as I’ve come to find out is a fairly difficult programming problem to…
Growth - Incremental Additions
Growth in life is mesmerizing with the intricacies of the structures that are created. This…
Gravity #4 - Self Attraction with Friction
This poem doesn’t follow as strictly to the rules of Gravity. There is some friction…
Gravity #3 - Directed Gravitational Paths
NASA calculated orbital paths using slide rulers, this programming poems uses the mouse to direct…
Recursivity #5 - Draw a colorful 3d tree
This poem adds another dimension to the 2d tree drawing poem. I love how these…
Recursivity #4 - Repeating Circles
This poem is built on a simple rule, take a circle, divide it in half,…
Gravity #2 - Multiple Black Holes
After creating the initial setup, the best thing to do is add even more to…
Recursivity #3 - Draw a beautiful fractal tree
I’m quite happy with the way this particular poem turned out. It’s very satisfying taking…
Gravity #1 - Black Hole
After reading Neal Stephenson’s Anathema a second time, watching Cosmos, and of course that one…
Recursivity #2 - Branching Fractal Trees
The second poem in my fractal series explores the idea of branching structures. These really…
Recursivity #1 - Koch Fractal
Launch the poem. Fork it on GitHub. I’m starting out a new series of programming poems using the idea of…
Stochasticity #8 - Webcam
This stochastic poem takes the idea of random drawing, but with a sampled color. It take the webcam,…
Stochasticity #7 - Audio
This stochastic piece dives into some audio. The poem uses the new Web Audio specification for browsers. It’s…
Stochasticity #6 - Weather Vectors
Another vector field poem, this simulation is starting to feel a lot like weather. The rules are similar…
Stochasticity #5 - Etch-A-Sketch
This poem is a little bit of a departure form the last ones. There is a vector field…
Stochasticity #4 - Polar Blobs
I changed up the coordinate space and size of the random color “walkers” on this fourth version of…
Stochasticity #3 - Chasing
This third sketch is a variation on #2, but it adds a lot of personality to the random…
Stochasticity #2 - Moving Out
This variation on the previous poem changes the way that the probability of the random color “walkers” is…
Stochasticity #1 - Random Walkers
I’ve started a new series of programming poems exploring the idea of stochasticity. What is stochasticity? It’s a…