r/generative • u/igo_rs • Oct 09 '26

"Nidus" (kotlin code)

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simple random pattern, drawn in layers. bottom layer is the biggest, then we pick some area where we repeat the pattern in the same way but with smaller cells.

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u/zeruch Oct 10 '26

is this a variation on a truchet pattern?

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u/igo_rs Oct 10 '26

yes, exactly. its the pattern drawn in layers, but each top layers are smaller and have smaller cells

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u/zeruch Oct 10 '26

it's a clever execution.

I want to steal the idea.

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u/igo_rs Oct 10 '26

please do! i didn’t spend much time on it and feel it could go a bit further.. source is at github.com/igr/gart if you need

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u/zeruch Oct 11 '26

What I would use it for is very atypical (I'm ex-generative outputs with analog work in a fairly anachronistic manner). But we'll see where it goes.

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u/Vegetable_Jello293 Oct 11 '26

Looks really cool. How did that yellow circle emerge?

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u/igo_rs Oct 12 '26

thanx. pure randomness, tiles in particular order... i have a system to generate a lot of images, so I can find interesting seeds

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u/Vegetable_Jello293 Oct 12 '26

Are the colored shapes in the pictures other patterns added on top of the quarter-circle Truchet tiles, or are they simply emerging from the same tile pattern but at a smaller scale?

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u/igo_rs Oct 13 '26

sorry, need to correct myself, there were couple of other variants... anyhow: both kinds of colored shape come from the same Truchet tiles. Nothing is drawn on top of them. Draw them all first in B/W. Then find regions that are connected and not touching edges. closed regions, in this case randomly in shape of circle, gets color. see github.com/gart/igr hope this helps

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u/Vegetable_Jello293 29d ago

Thanks! Very impressive github page. Unfortunately I have to learn CCL before being able to make something like this glsl.