[Edu-sig] Re: Levitated Tile
Kirby Urner
urnerk@qwest.net
Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:34:16 -0800
At 06:04 PM 11/15/2001 -0500, Jason Cunliffe wrote:
>http://www.levitated.net/
>
>..lovely openSource Flash5 generative art site, well designed interface
>
>
>./Jason
Yes, this is excellent. People with slower connections don't
like "swoopy" sites, but this shows how "swoopy" is NOT synonymous
with frivolous graphics, as here we're animating interesting
math-related ideas dynamically, with the powerful Flash 5
package.
Inspired by the Lorentz Attractor demo, I adapted the code
(with source cited/credited) to work with my pre-existing
coords.py and povray.py modules (freely downloadable and
used extensively at my math-through-programming teaching
site).
Here's the URL, with the resulting graphic up top (nothing
stunning): http://www.inetarena.com/~pdx4d/ocn/lorentz.html
Gratifying to get something visual with so little code, as
with the fractal obtained earlier (linked in the 'For Further
Reading' section at bottom).
Thanks again, Jason -- you're good at mining the web, a fine
art in itself.
Kirby
Curriculum writer
Oregon Curriculum Network
& Oregon-Tips Python Curriculum