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experiment no. 009 · screensaver

Bloom.

geometric flowers that open up one ring at a time, fade out, and pop back up somewhere else on the screen

generativecanvas

Symmetric flowers blooming ring by ringfull screen
Symmetric flowers blooming ring by ring. Opens full screen in a new tab from the link above.

What you are looking at

each flower starts as one randomly generated petal, just a closed curve through a handful of random radii, repeated k times around a centre. no matter how rough that one petal looks, the whole thing ends up perfectly k-fold symmetric.

the flower grows by stacking more layers of that same petal, each one a bit bigger and rotated a bit further. every flower is either all purple or all yellow, filled in at low opacity, so where petals overlap you get brighter cores and the whole flat drawing starts reading like it has depth.