Quilt #2 #78

Simulating an impressionist painting with a cubist layout. This is a long-running piece that can take up to 3 or more minutes to complete.

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It will only draw if the browser window has focus, otherwise, it will pause.

Method:

• A quadtree is constructed from a variable distant poisson disc sample points on a noise field
• For each square in the quadtree ...
• Pick a random color or grey based on 3d noise (x, y, and time)
• New set of poisson disc sampled points are distributed based on 3d noise (x, y, and time)
• Points are used for brief particle simulation
• Path of those points are drawn with a brushstroke
• Once all of the squares are drawn, the time value increments and it loops back for another layer 10 times

Features:

• colorful: common, use full-color palette instead of colors and grey
• thick strokes: common, use thicker brush strokes
• smooth: common, smoother noise pattern
• particle can escape: rare, particles may extend beyond their bounding square