Nested semicircles
Published on 7 September 2008
Take a semicircle and recursively insert two semicircles within it, then change the semicircles angle over time and you have a nice animation.
This is an Actionscript 3.0 version of a Java implementation show here.
The vertical mouse position changes the nesting depth and the horizontal position the number of semicircle divisions.
Update: Tomek just told me about a nice interactive version of the same concept created some time ago over at phong.com.
Last updated: 5 October 2008
4 Comments
Links & further reading
Related posts
- A series of subdivisions
- An experiment in fractal structures.
- The Pyramid
- An experiment in recursive structures.
- Artforms of Nature
- A fractal twist to the ever inspiring illustrations from the nineteenth century German biologist Ernst Haeckel.
- Fractal Explorer Pixel Bender Plugin
- Two filters for Pixel Bender for generating a wide variety of fractals. A key feature enables images to be mapped into fractal space.
- More blog posts
Your site rocks! Thanks for sharing your genius with the world, I can't wait to use the droste plugin
Tom
Wow! the one at phong.com is really amazing! Wierd, but stunning.. =)
Stunningly on the outer edge of the flash envelope.
Cool. An animated Cantor's Cheese. I like to think of Cantor's Cheese as visually demonstrating how a line is composed of an infinity of points. As all the nested circles become ever smaller, they form a line of an infinite number of "points", which are themselves filled with an infinite number of points.