Wait, Coda's an artist?
 

Well, I can't really draw, but I do generate some interesting stuff from time to time.

http://greenmaw.com/ahigerd/reaching.html

http://greenmaw.com/ahigerd/allrgb.png

http://greenmaw.com/ahigerd/allrgb2.png

*Thumbs up*
I like it!

Trying a few different rendering parameters, this time I've got one that's very... rainbow.

http://greenmaw.com/ahigerd/allrgb3.png

So, I opened those two up and got horrifying flashbacks of trying to make stuff in TKinter. Python and most coding languages are not my friends.

That's pretty cool. What was the driving motivation there?

Coursework >.> Class that I needed to take to start a Robotics minor, but gave up halfway through, making it my third and latest failed attempt to learn to code.

☆ I'd be willing to feel the pain ღ

☆ If it got me to the other side ღ

I tried to make the rules for post flobs easy to read. You're in the clear.

Those are really nifty, Coda. That last one you posted is really trippy. <3

*tilts head curiously to one side*

These kind of like fractals? I'm only vaguely aware of digital art outside of Photoshop. I like the third one you posted. These would make some neat wallpapers.

The circular ones aren't fractals, at least not by a technical definition; a fractal is self-similar such that if you zoom in on it you'll see details similar to what you saw before you zoomed in. (The first one, the red and black one, IS a fractal. You can see the repeated patterns at varying scales, and if I were to render zoomed in you'd see more of those blue-black swooshes in the same pattern.)

There is a similarity, in that they're generated by a computer program based on an algorithm, and the artistry comes in by selecting good parameters to the algorithm and choosing attractive outputs for presentation.

I would like to know how to do that...
Any guide-links or advice on how to look it up?

Hmm. I honestly don't know what to suggest on that. I never used any such reference. My ability to do this kind of thing evolved naturally out of my general-purpose programming ability -- the only thing I'm using that's anything "special" is a library that lets me read and modify pixels (which I could do just as easily with a block of memory and then a library that lets me convert raw pixels into a PNG file).

Hey Coda, have you ever used Apophysis?

Never heard of it. *researches quickly* Interesting. Maybe I'll try it some time.

Coda makes such nice art with his stuffy stuffs. Haha.

I like the rainbow one. It's all swirly and has all these little designs in it if you look up close. x3