Mandala
(Jared Tarbell Study)
The initial prompt for this piece is partially based on the description of Henon Phase Deep by Jared Tarbell, as well as text from Egg’s prompt generator. I cover the creation of this piece in more detail in the tutorial.
user (aitechnopagan):
Please create some incredible generative art. Give me controls for the key parameters. Make sure I have a control for the overall speed or timestep. The controls should disappear when the mouse hasn't moved in a few seconds. Use a subtle and restrained colour palette. In hopes and fears of something unknown, we travel deep into the Henon strange attractor (see Henon Phase). All of the images on this page were created by exposing the traveling patterns of particles over long periods of time. The particles are trapped in the simple, but elegant strange attactor as defined by the following transformations: xn+1 = xn cos(a) - (yn - xn2) sin(a) yn+1 = xn sin(a) + (yn - xn2) cos(a) For this series images, I zoomed in and focused on regions away from the center. The regions were chosen at random, but in every case, the centerpoint is outside the viewing window. Subtle changes in the phase constant, defined by the value of a, produce interesting regions to explore.
user (aitechnopagan):
add additional controls to help make the shape more visible
user (aitechnopagan):
modify the art so that it behaves more like a mandala with additional controls
user (aitechnopagan):
add additional controls to transform the motion of the mandala and make it even more fractally complex and beautiful
user (aitechnopagan):
make it possible to control pulses in the generation of the mandala
