Circle Patterns

There are two flavours of the circle pattern, the original python based version and the more recent interactive one, built using Google's native client plugin (You'll probably need Chrome to run this.

Native Client Application

This application will animate circle patters using the Google Native Client plugin.

The Original Python Patterns

This page shows some similar images drawn using a Python script.

Examples

This family of patterns is generated from plotting the calculating the z = f(x,y) over a rectangular region and using the value of 'z' to colour in the pixels. I call them circle patterns because the simplest interesting example, generated from z = x² + y², generates circles.

The example code supplied with the module generates larger versions of the following patterns. It can be downloaded from the source code page

There are more examples, including animations, and an explanation of the source code on the Circle Patterns page.

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