The Artist's Husband: Smoothing a de Jong Image
Last week , I showed a program I was working on to generate deJong attractor images. I mentioned I’d be working on adding some color. I am not there yet! This is a mere stop to take a breather, and to talk about an intermediate step: smoothing the image. Here is one of my images from last week: While interesting, there are some problems here. I am just calculating points, and as each one is calculated, I draw it on the canvas, even if it has already been drawn. For any given set of input constants, there are going to be the same points showing up a lot, some more than others. The final image, however, is very sensitive to the number of unique points I actually draw. Too few, and there is not much to see. Too many, and the image devolves into an amorphous blob:
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Last week , I showed a program I was working on to generate deJong attractor images. I mentioned I’d be working on adding some color. I am not there yet! This is a mere stop to take a breather, and to talk about an intermediate step: smoothing the image. Here is one of my images from last week:
While interesting, there are some problems here. I am just calculating points, and as each one is calculated, I draw it on the canvas, even if it has already been drawn. For any given set of input constants, there are going to be the same points showing up a lot, some more than others. The final image, however, is very sensitive to the number of unique points I actually draw. Too few, and there is not much to see. Too many, and the image devolves into an amorphous blob:
