Thursday, April 19, 2007

Fire of the Heart

Remember MA-204. That's when we came across the form
R = 1 + cos(A). The cardioid. Little did I realise then that I could make something so cool using it...

I love fractals. Ever since I came across them some 5-odd years back, I've been obsessed with them. Just the other day, on Terror Candy, I came across Apophysis, a flame fractal generator. (A Flame Fractal is a particular fractal generating technique that uses logarithmic scaling and structural colouring in addition to motion-blurs and anti-aliasing. In short, it looks good.) :)

So, combing fractals and a cardioid, this is what I came up with:


I call it "Fire of the Heart". Jade calls it "Phoenix". Amit thought it was a really cool owl. That's the coolest thing about abstract figures - it is what you think it is. What do you think it is? (leave comment...)

Man. These endsems are turning out to be the coolest endsems of my life!

9 comments:

Gutterflower said...

SEEEEEXY!!
Oo Fire of the Heart is so appropriate! Combined with the song! =D

And yea it DOES look like an owl. A very funky owl.

I <3 fractals too. And someday we shall have our own fractal software. And take over the world. =)

Eeshan Malhotra said...

It'll make for a good wig...
(of course, when i say "good", i mean one that will gross out the lousy lice)

sunayana said...

omg this is awesome
i have to start learning about fractals too

http://sincerewhitelies.blogspot.com

Krishna said...

I bow to thee :)

Aditi Rawat said...

killer i say!!!! it looks like a crown to me!!

Nikhil said...

Looks like a really futuristic Batman throwing star..guess the technical term is Batarang (I recall there was something like Batman of the Future, he could use this!)

Saurabh Das said...

thanks :)

... me just back from Goa :D

shaishav said...

awsome wud be an uderstatemen...
heard of the heart surface function..
check dis

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HeartSurface.html

Saurabh Das said...

thanks :)

@shaishav - hey.. nice function! :)