Shining Storm

amiagoodperson

pointy

admiralpotato

Circular Associations - D

Last Sunday, I created a bunch of variations in a design series I called “Circular Associations”. This was variation D. Source code for this variation can be found here. Again, not my cleanest/best code ever, but that day was for play, not optimization.

This GIF is one in a set named “Circular Associations”

alvaropls

Every single possible arrangement. 4x4 array. black or white.

Let me know if you find any bug.

ArrayList<Form> formCollection = new ArrayList<Form>();
int maxForms = 65536;
int counter = 0;

void setup() {

 size(2560, 2560);
 background(0);

 frameRate(10);
 for (int i=2; i<width-4; i+=width/256) {
   for (int j=2; j<height-4; j+=height/256) {
     if (formCollection.size () < maxForms) {
       Form form = new Form(i,j);
       if (!formCollection.contains(form)) {
         formCollection.add(form);
         counter++;
       } else {
         break;
       }
     }
   }
 }
 println(“Size of formCollection =”, formCollection.size());

 for (int i=0; i<formCollection.size (); i++) {
   Form form = formCollection.get(i);  
   form.update();
 }

}

void draw() {

}

class Form {

 int[][] form = new int[4][4];
 int xpos, ypos;
 int s = 2;
 color colour = color(100);

 Form (int _x, int _y) {    
   xpos = _x;
   ypos = _y;
 }

 void update() {
   populate();
   display(xpos,ypos);
 }

 void populate() {

   for (int x=0; x<4; x++) {
     for (int y=0; y<4; y++) {
       form[x][y] = int(random(0, 2));
     }
   }
 }

 void display(int xpos,int ypos) {  
   for (int x=0; x<8; x+=2) {
     for (int y=0; y<8; y+=2) {
       for (int x2=0; x2<4; x2++) {
         for (int y2=0; y2<4; y2++) {
           form[x2][y2] = int(random(0, 2));

           if (form[x2][y2] == 0) {
             colour = color(255);
           } else {
             colour = color(0);
           }
         }
       }
       //stroke(255, 0, 0);
       noStroke();
       fill(colour);
       rect(xpos+x, ypos+y, s, s);
     }
   }
 }
}

adz

Autonomous Trap 001

“What you’re looking at is a salt circle, a traditional form of protection—from within or without—in magical practice. In this case it’s being used to arrest an autonomous vehicle—a self-driving car, which relies on machine vision and processing to guide it. By quickly deploying the expected form of road markings—in this case, a No Entry glyph—we can confuse the car’s vision system into believing it’s surrounded by no entry points, and entrap it.”

-James Bridle

plutoniarch

using salt circle motor runes to trap driving AI is the most cyberpunk thing I’ve ever seen