Risto A. Paju

@algoristo.bsky.social

Algorithmic artist http://algoristo.com/

It was twenty years ago today Sam L Jackson fought the snakes in air They've been going in and out of memes Guess they're funny if you're in your teens So may I just remind you of The act you've known for all these years Monty Python's "Hovercraft full of eels".

From a pile of shit, new life grows. Conway's Game of Life running independently in the 3 colour channels in 64x64 cells with wrap-around topology. Not much new code here, just added image loading capability to my old pile-up demo of 2D cellular automata.

New Year's Redactions My earlier text redaction demos were done in my OpenGL setup, using a pixelation effect overlaid on a text document. This was rather simple, but it required some manual tweaking to align the pixelation grid with the text. I've now redone the effect in text mode using Python.

Another blow-up view of the Apollonian spheres, now dropping on a concave surface to gather all the jetsam together. This is what I had in mind when writing the first drop demo, and the model just needed a bit of refinement for the differently sized balls.

Making Apollonian gaskets usually follows a key rule of iterated function systems: each iteration should make the thing smaller. With inversions, this means going from the outside to the inside of inverting circles. However, it's possible to make valid gaskets using a lopsided configuration, where

2D circle inversion fractals on the spherical surface. This was a fun offshoot of my recent Apollonian endeavours, again using the Riemann sphere mapping to go from 3D to 2D for the iterations.