Title: NewScientist - Computer paints rainbow smoke with 17 million colours Post by: kram1032 on March 05, 2014, 09:37:32 PM There was a programming competition to program as simple as possible simple software that will use every color in RGB exactly once. NewScientist covered the winner of that competition here:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25167#.UxeJmPl5PpF Here is a video of the process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBk6McexwKg Basically, the winner has accidentally found a beautiful variation of what looks like diffusion-style images. There is a vague description of how it works in the above article. Here is a full-sized image of the result: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-2km3zePZhd_Uv6IABUP029ZIJwepNPNlffoQ1CnW9MDguZ3bZ8gQFy4QrSLiU0cAj_wIzTd2DU though apparently, not everybody can view this link - I showed it to somebody who said it was Error 403 - Forbidden. So here is an alternate link of it: http://puu.sh/7kbai.png It's 2056² px, so rather big. EDIT: The actual competition is, as I could have guessed right away, from Code Golf Stack Exchange: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/22144/images-with-all-colors Title: Re: NewScientist - Computer paints rainbow smoke with 17 million colours Post by: KRAFTWERK on March 06, 2014, 08:13:24 AM Beautiful fluff! |