Recursion...First Attempt

I have a goal of using cellular autonoma to simulate tree growth. This program is an alpha-draft of that, hyper early on in the development cycle. I am pretty sure none of this code will go onto be used in latter versions, but I learned about recursion and that's a good benefit. It is drawn segment by segment, and each segment calls two more. It recurses (I think that's a word) for a random time (well 50% chance of continuing that branch). I added in the ability to start a segment from where you click, it's kinda fun I think...you can paint with the branches. To get the middle branch to stop drawing new branches just hit the 'o' key. Code after the jump...

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A Circular Vortex...spinning...spinning.

While putting off my blob addition to the Gnat swarm, I decided to see what a little trig and a whole lot of lines could get me. So I mixed some color in with the reducing radius and it turned out pretty well I think. Especially for maybe an hour of coding. Vortex is after the jump...

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Color Quickie Redux

This rather simple program just uses the X and Y position of the ball for the background color information. Code after the jump....

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Color Quickie

I realized I had been basically only programming in black and white, so I decided to play around with color for a bit. It's a pretty simple demo, but I felt like it should still be shared. Code after the jump to save your processor.

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Gnat

I like to code in Processing. It does all the hard parts of graphics for you, so you can just concentrate on the coding. I have some back code that will get posted eventually (hopefully) but for now I'm going to share a project that I've been working on recently. Late on night in my room, I wanted to code something but couldn't think of what to code. As I sat there pondering, a gnat was bumbling around infront of my computer screens. I noticed that it had a wierd flight pattern. It looked like it almost jumped from one place to another randomly, but with some overall directional sway. I realized this is what I should code, so I did and here is the fruit on my labors. Or atleast a relatively stable, version that incorporates a decent amount of features yet still pretty early on in the evolution of the code. It's after the jump (so it doesn't run on load, cause my programs are usually a bit processor intenseive)

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