Gumowski-Mira Patterns
Published on 25 September 2008
Named after two physisists the Gumowski-Mira transform was developed to calculate the trajectories of sub-atomic particles.
Its nonlinear nature creates a wide variety of organic looking images ranging from galaxies to feathers and marine-like creatures to the cross-section of fruit.
Horizontal drag changes µ. Vertical drag changes the zoom.
Fine tune with the arrow keys. Render more iterations by pressing space.
The α value is tweaked by shift + vertical drag.
Last updated: 5 October 2008
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This is superb and addictive to play with. Going to look at the source now :)
Can make it look like 4 duck legs, or like batoidea.. =)
Nice effect. I only have one Problem: I've downloaded your source code. While testing it in Flash CS 3 I get the following error: 1120 Access of undefined property ColorUtil.
I suppose its because there is no import for any kind of ColorUtil class. Searching for a corresponding class on the internet wont bring me any results, with a related class having the addPixel32 method.
Any held would be greatly appreciated.
Hr. Maier the ColorUtil class file was missing. I've have added back into the archive, cheers.
Thank you very much for your fast help. Now all is working perfectly. This is a really wonderful algorithm - and your changes even add more diversity to it. Great job, Tom!