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funnelweb 3: laser speckle

Frederik Vanhoutte — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:59:53 +0000

I’ve always been attracted to bright lights, so I’m particularly fond of this one. It reminds me of the laser speckle of an old HeNe laser.

funnelweb2 : a lurker darkly

Frederik Vanhoutte — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:44:05 +0000

A darker visualization of the funnelweb structure, pulling the geometry into a Lovecraftian nightmare.

funnelweb

Frederik Vanhoutte — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:21:42 +0000

Even the dustiest material can form the start of an interesting structure. The lattice in funnelweb is constructed by drawing the shortest connections between a collection of random lines, and then by taking the closest connections of the connections, and so on, and so on ad infinitum. (Well, it’s only ten times but by then everything has become too tiny to make a difference.) As a finishing touch, add a sprinkling of particles moving along the lines. Click the piece to restart.

Since it’s no use reinventing the wheel, I’m using Toxi's geometry library for manipulating 3D vectors. I also tend to consult Paul Bourke a lot when playing around with geometry.