Comments on: cyclic: outwitted by a 1000 particles

By: Jared Tarbell

Jared Tarbell — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:22:49 +0000

I am humbled by any comparisons being made between my work Sand.Traveller and Frederik’s algorithm. There are similarities, but the basic idea behind Sand.Traveller was so simple, I can hardly lay claim to any originality. Also, I think we all have to agree 1000 is just a plain great number.

As for the color palette, I should admit that most all my palettes are ‘borrowed’ from painters like Jackson Pollock.

It’s wonderful to find this discourse, as I have been lost in Wblut for the better part of two hours tonight (beginning with your recent implementation of Voronoi fractals - wow!). I am totally amazed at the breadth and complexity of these works and honored to even be mentioned. Thank you kindly!

By: Lucas Tamarit

Lucas Tamarit — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:26:05 +0000

Well, I think that inviting people to check out Tarbell’s work is the best thing to do.
I won’t argue any further.

By: frederik

frederik — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:42:40 +0000

Yipes, the wording is way too close for comfort. Even the number of particles is identical… and they chase each other.
Anyway, I’m pretty familiar with the work of Jared Tarbell, complexification.net is on my list of links. And let’s not forget I refer to his work in my post of june 30th: curvature. Complexification was one of my first exposures to Processing, way over in 2004, it left me in awe.
Ironically, I remember thinking when I put up the piece that the color palette is very similar to ‘Substrate’ and other works of his.
Now that you pointed this out, I look at his code. The actual concept is different, and beyond the first glance, so is the result.
All I have are a thousand steering particles in a chain each trying to reach the next one. This causes an initial tangled mess to smoothen out. the interactions in Jared’s piece are more complex, more physical and essentially far more interesting. Check out his code, it’s an education!