A Strange Attraction
is my hello, world test of Processing.

It is my way of expressing that I have a
"strange attraction" to this medium
and to an organic, algorithmic
"process".

I selected to simply render a family
of strange attractor functions

x' = sin(a*y) - z*e*cos(b*x);
y' = z*sin(c*x) - abs(cos(d*y));
z' = e*sin(x);

over a randomized range of values
for [a, b, c, d, e]

I will use this medium to create works
of organic, algorithmic digital art,
utilizing individual rendered elements,
(for example the systems in Figure 1),
as a part of a greater whole,
as demonstrated in
"attractor-fish".

The two renderings above in Figure 2 are examples of multi-rendered sessions, with the second example demonstrating rendering multiple equation-spaces onto
a single image-space.

The program will generate N elements of this
strange attractor family, utilizing random
colors as different render channels.

Computation of an attractor function stops
when a percent of the image-space
for that function is fully saturated
(completely white regions).

println("hello, world");