Advent of Code 2023 was fun but not very creative. So this year I am going to try out this Genuary 2024 thing, a daily generative art programming prompt for January.
Black hole sun type thing? I could probably make many more particles if I moved the update loop out of JS... hmm. Warning makes noise if you click.
Update: I tried commenting out the update() calls and cranking particles up
to a million and I only get 2-3 fps! So canvas rasterizing is bottlenecking
here. Just switching to putImageData gets me up to 400-500k particles with
comfortable fps. Added some angular velocity and more general fooling around,
this was super fun.
PS: I commented out the sound because it was too annoying.
moire + ntsc? today. The prompt "emergent colors" made me think of artifact colors, so here's a really simple moire pattern with an ntsc ish decoder on top. This would really be much better as a couple pixel shaders but I'm not set up for webgl, maybe in the coming days.