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Re:Help this man decipher his cool creative code. by madmax108 on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @08:16AM (#4255335)
+1 to that. I remember computer graphics classes in college where we'd basically start off with a fixed algorithm and then play around with random variables and steps and end up with stuff that looked amazing (even though noone really knew why!) :P
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Re:Help this man decipher his cool creative code. by DanBC on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @09:42AM (#4255605)
I seem to remember JWZ saying that some screensavers were mistakes.

And the Fractint stone soup people included many "error" algorithms.

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Re:Help this man decipher his cool creative code. by ec00 on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @10:52AM (#4255887)
I feel like sharing the strange flood-fill algorithm i once stumbled upon: https://vimeo.com/699396
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Re:Help this man decipher his cool creative code. by joshu on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @03:17AM (#4259745)
Gorgeous.
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