Just for fun: attractors in R

I have a borderline unhealthy obsession with attractors. I thought I got it out of my system, but here we are. For whatever reason, I felt like making some in R.

You can find the R code here. It uses the attractor function to define density in a matrix, which is how often a given point gets hit. Then we plot the log scaled version of that using image().

Be warned, with a lot of points it can be quite slow. If you play around you might want to drop the n value to 10,000 or so.

Some pictures

Dejong

Clifford

If you like this sort of thing, I made a realtime interactive dejong attractor, using a kinect, openFrameworks and a lot of GLSL shaders. You can see a clip of it below, the source is also on my github if you are so inclined.


Attractor from dizzy pete on Vimeo.

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Interactive deJong Attractor

I have been working on this the last few weeks. It is an interactive deJong Attractor, developed using GLSL Shaders and C++ with openFrameworks.

The attractor is generated, then passed as a texture to a shader that builds a curl, then a bunch of particles float around that curl, changing color and opacity based on the attractor output.

It is also connected to a kinect, so the changes that you see on screen are coming from movement captured from the kinect.

I set it up on the dancefloor at a friends party, and included some iPhone footage of it in action at the end of the clip below.

Much of the detail gets lost when looking at the small vimeo embed, so please check out the larger HD version on vimeo here.


Attractor from dizzy pete

I think I have finally gotten deJong attractors and particle fields out of my system, on to the next thing.