Gumowski-Mira Patterns

Published on 25 September 2008

Named after two physisists the Gumowski-Mira transform was developed to calculate the trajectories of sub-atomic particles.

Its nonlinear nature creates a wide variety of organic looking images ranging from galaxies to feathers and marine-like creatures to the cross-section of fruit.

Horizontal drag changes µ. Vertical drag changes the zoom.
Fine tune with the arrow keys. Render more iterations by pressing space.
The α value is tweaked by shift + vertical drag.

Download AS3 source code

  Last updated: 5 October 2008

6 Comments

• Shapevent commented at 13 October 2008 at 16:46

  This is superb and addictive to play with. Going to look at the source now :)

• Web gallery commented at 5 February 2009 at 11:17

  Can make it look like 4 duck legs, or like batoidea.. =)

• Hr. Maier commented at 6 February 2009 at 12:52

  Nice effect. I only have one Problem: I've downloaded your source code. While testing it in Flash CS 3 I get the following error: 1120 Access of undefined property ColorUtil.

  I suppose its because there is no import for any kind of ColorUtil class. Searching for a corresponding class on the internet wont bring me any results, with a related class having the addPixel32 method.

  Any held would be greatly appreciated.

• Tom commented at 6 February 2009 at 19:10

  Hr. Maier the ColorUtil class file was missing. I've have added back into the archive, cheers.

• Hr. Maier commented at 7 February 2009 at 13:13

  Thank you very much for your fast help. Now all is working perfectly. This is a really wonderful algorithm - and your changes even add more diversity to it. Great job, Tom!

• pvdn commented at 13 November 2010 at 19:23

  very nice, this post got me inspired to create my own version: http://petervandernoord.nl/blog/2010/11/the-strange-beauty-of-the-gumowski-mira-attractor/

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