Collection of artwork made with the integer circle algorithm (Minsky circle) (opens in new tab)

> Glitches

Very curious. Mr. Wolfram and his "rule 30" would probably like a word. Or perhaps it's just integer overflow artifacts. Regardless it's fascinating to see chaotic behavior emerge from something that simple.

BTW, here's Minsky's own application, known as the "Minskytron":

https://www.masswerk.at/minskytron/

(You may set 3-bit wide bit-shift parameters by the switches at the bottom of the screen in groups of 3, one each for scaling x and y parameters of each of the 3 generators/oscillators. There are also a few presets in the menu at the top to select from. Mind that patterns aren't exactly stable for the limited 18-bit word precision of the PDP-1.)

For those interested in the workings, there's a schematic in the description and a link to the annotated source code.

> Here is basically the two lines by which all the artworks below were started from: x += y >> 4; y -= x >> 4;

This is the discrete time version of a Harmonic Oscillator, an energy conserving differential equation. The introduction of nonlinearity results in the complex behaviour.

Beautiful!

In terms of fractal art I can also recommend:

http://frameofmind.be/

https://www.protobacillus.com/

http://www.steckles.com/buddha/

Could be nice to see something like that in music visualization. Miss this feature in online music services..

That might be useful to further simplify this gist: https://gist.github.com/phkahler/1ddddb79fc57072c4269fdd6716...

Coolest blinkin' light ever.

Nice!