Showing posts with label vectorfield. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vectorfield. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Strawberry vector fields forever

My new vector field renderer prototype is chugging along, and combined with hooking up .png output to the app I was able to make a couple of little animations with it.

The vector function is a combination of trig and exponentiation (mixing up x and y to keep things interesting across the plane). These animated GIFs show a zoom in toward the origin.

I'm especially fond of this chromatic-circle vector field mode - the vector length controls the circle radius, while the angle is interpreted as hue color:


Here's the same function, field, and zoom, using a simple line representation of each vector (drawn from tail at evaluated point):



Can't wait to hook up the controls & file persistence so I can do some deeper exploration of vector fields and their aesthetic possibilities!