TooDice

I'm working on an idea I had whilst bored at work.

Form is a program by Andrew Rowbottom designed to create "organic art" similar to the sort of thing William Latham raves about. I seem to remember the software being given away on an old coverdisc back in the days when The Shamen decided to get creative and based a music video on the concept. Anyway, it works on the principal of "growing" a design from a script using loops and subroutines to piece together primitive 3D shapes.

I'm a firm believer in that graphics took a few steps backward when people started to concentrate on 3D and for this reason, and the fact that it's just easier to do, I've been working on a 2D equivalent.

The great thing is that although you never really know what something is going to turn out like until you try it, you need no real artistic talent at all as it's just maths and scripting.

I've written a brief test of the idea in (don't shoot me) vb just to see if it's even worth bothering and although it's slow and just damn ugly the concept works well. The finished product will be written in Python just because I'm doing this for my own entertainment and prefer it to other languages.

I'd like to somehow include fractals into the idea (expect scary maths programming problems to be posted here in the near future ) but can't really think of a way to include them in the designs. I'm not talking about implementation in code, just a way of using them that's a bit more intelligent than just drawing one as a pretty backdrop to the rest of the image. Anyone got any ideas?

Either way I'll post a link to some images once I've got it to generate something a little more inventive than the octopus thing I've managed in the test version if anyone's interested.

I've never done anything quite this graphical in python before other than move a few sprites around so I'm expecting it to take me a while

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