Reddit user grigri created a beautiful alien using nothing but math and Lambda functions. Naturally it took a few tries to do this - from which I compiled a time-lapse video:
Wow, that's Great!
I would really like to learn to use lambda functions, they're probably quite powerful in overcoming the # of chars limitations and in doing fractals and the like... any tutorials? :)
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By
Omnignorance,
10:38 a.m. Sunday, August 16th 2009:
Here is a simple iterative fractal image generator using lambda functions that someone created a few weeks ago
http://www.fragsworth.com/image_functions/8491/
Something to play around with at least.
yep, also those others:
http://fragsworth.com/image_functions/8869/
http://fragsworth.com/image_functions/8736/
Then a first nice/simple hint from grigri:
http://fragsworth.com/image_functions/27293/
:)
By
Omnignorance,
12:39 p.m. Monday, August 17th 2009:
That first link (http://fragsworth.com/image_functions/8869/) was a fractal I seem to have "discovered". Here is a link to the original "Secant Sea" as I called it after making a fractal video out of it with a parametric seed:
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/thorn/
Calling it a "Thorn Fractal" just didn't seem right since I only called it that because of how a portion of it looked for a single seed.
To generate it on this site, however, I just used the lambda functions used to generate the Mandelbrot, blindly altering what I recognized to be components of generating the Mandelbrot itself since I didn't fully understand how it worked.
By
nongravis,
9:42 p.m. Sunday, August 23rd 2009:
The 8491 fractal image generator (actually escape-time, so not simply iterative, using a Y combinator to implement recursion) was something I developed after noticing some comments on reddit. I think I explain it there.
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/95iqd/pic_sad_reddit_alien/c0bhztn
Unfortunately, the fractal generator doesn't seem to work well with Video Functions.
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