Generating rivers with Processing

[Ofnuts]

Dreamed up an algorithm last night, wrote it this morning. Delighted to see how well it works.

   

Even better when you see it in action, growing the network.

   

[denzjos]

A blueprint of a working brain at night, nice

[Ofnuts]

Can be used to create interesting bumpmaps.

   

[Ofnuts]

Now with color-tracking

   

[Ofnuts]

Also does nice trees:

   

and with foliage:

   

[PixLab]

It's electrifying
The last one is super cool as well as the colored circle, are you working on a plugin?

[denzjos]

Ofnuts, nice done, now another night dreaming how to put a tree trunk below the tree foliage

[Ofnuts]

(08-12-2024, 03:38 AM)PixLab Wrote: It's electrifying  
The last one is super cool as well as the colored circle, are you working on a plugin?

Nope, just for fun. And anyway this rather heavy & slow computing, the colored circle takes around 15mn on my rather decent PC,  I can make it run faster by changing a parameter but this makes the result a lot more linear and less interesting.

[Krikor]

(08-11-2024, 06:21 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: Also does nice trees:



and with foliage:

I couldn't resist and wanted to see some AI results based on this image.
   

[sallyanne]

(08-12-2024, 02:28 PM)Ofnuts Wrote:

(08-12-2024, 03:38 AM)PixLab Wrote: It's electrifying  
The last one is super cool as well as the colored circle, are you working on a plugin?

Nope, just for fun. And anyway this rather heavy & slow computing, the colored circle takes around 15mn on my rather decent PC,  I can make it run faster by changing a parameter but this makes the result a lot more linear and less interesting.

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Super cool. Pity your not gonna make a plugin.

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