Computer generated contemporary art
Just a quick selection of images randomly-generated by the following 10 lines or so of Python.
Art
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Cloud images using the diamond-square algorithm
The diamond-square algorithm is a popular method for generating images which resemble terrain, clouds or plasma. Its description on Wikipedia is as good as any and will not be repeated here. In the code below, the image size is . Since plt.imshow interpolates quite well …
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Penrose Tiling 2: Implementation and Examples
This article demonstrates the use of the Penrose tiling class described in the previous blog post. The code described in this post is available under the GPL licence on GitHub.
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Penrose Tiling 1: Introduction
This blog post introduces Penrose tiling, a type of aperiodic tiling discovered by mathematician Roger Penrose in the 1970s. Penrose tilings are constructed using specific shapes (tiles) that can cover a plane without repeating patterns. The post focuses on the P3 tiling scheme, which uses …
