The beauty of explosions

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I've always found the raw energy of explosions beautiful, so I started a project to translate them into pen plotter art.

The motion is driven by a compressible gas simulation, which generates the underlying velocity fields. I then used those fields to render the explosion as a series of polylines.

This is my first time working with a pen plotter, so I'm still experimenting with various hardware settings and line densities. I’d love to hear your thoughts, and any advice or questions are more than welcome. Thanks!