Reaction-Diffusion
Two chemicals reacting across a grid produce leopard spots, fingerprint whorls, and labyrinth mazes — the visual logic of every animal print.
Algorithmic composition — Perlin fields, reaction-diffusion, particle systems, emergent geometry.
Procedural aesthetics replace the camera with a rule set. Each frame is the latest state of an equation — no two outputs are ever identical, every render is a one-shot drawn from a sea of possibilities.
Two chemicals reacting across a grid produce leopard spots, fingerprint whorls, and labyrinth mazes — the visual logic of every animal print.
Smooth Perlin noise turned into a vector field — particles trace invisible rivers across the canvas, leaving luminous trails.
Each particle carries a lineage ID. They bloom from emitters, drift on the audio waveform, and fade into the next generation.
Scatter points, assign every pixel to its nearest neighbor — Voronoi diagrams tile the canvas into organic cells of unequal geometry.
Deterministic chaos — three coupled differential equations trace the butterfly-wing curves Lorenz and Rössler made famous.
Non-periodic Penrose tilings and rotating Truchet arcs pack the plane without ever repeating the same patch twice.
Cellular automata on a grid — each cell lives, dies, or spawns based on its neighbors. Gliders, blinkers, and Gosper guns emerge unprompted.
L-systems rewrite strings into branching trees; quadtrees and Sierpińskis recurse until they fill the plane in self-similar layers.