I started to write about my experience in the previous post in Creative Coding lecture. I will not miss my chance here and write a lot.

TLDR; This is going to be long… But you can scroll to see if there is something visually interesting for you…

Good news, I have found a video… I cannot be sure though if it is the video of the same visual. I recorded A LOT so this seems pretty close to me. This was how they were formed, here they were trying to avoid touching. They were kind of fleeing from each other, the closer they are the faster they run.

Then one starts to wonder, what if they do not flee, contrary to that, they stick together. As you can see, there is an interesting spread at the edges of the screen. This is because the force that make them glue to each other, chasing to be close to others are so strong, they cannot even leave the line.

Figure 1 : Phase 5, in a 3d space they do not flee in this case, they are attracted to each other.Still on a line though…

If I just reverse the force, same magnitude, same occurence but negative, the following occurs. Oooh, the same things AGAIN.

Figure 2 : Phase 5, in a 3d space they DO flee again…

I then tried to introduce a little entropy when they stick together so that they do not stick perfectly together. With small mistakes on the force, we observe this. I liked what I saw. It reminded of a quantum field for some reason. You could see a wave like view such as you observe the surface of the sea. It seemed like “something” was trying to come to existence. Suddenly, with the introduced entropy, a little part of the herd escapes and you get to witness the remnants of this behavior. Figure 3 : A little entropy and this is what happens…

When I leave them be for a long time, the traces get complex. At the center, you can see how the escape begins as a dense lump of webs. Figure 3 Contd. : A little entropy and a long time…

Now, let us address the horizontal line. I tried to put them in center, one point. Figure 4 : They emerge at the center, it looks like a virus…

Now the secret of the blackhole… What if instead of fleeing like a real normal entity, they rotate on the plane, like shifting dimensions. A rotation where they rotate 90 degrees in reference to the origin (top left corner in Processing). This is how this event horizon-like traces occur.

Figure 5 : They shift in an abnormal way, it reminds me of event horizon, not the movie, event horizon of a black hole…

Now going back to the central one. I tried to add some blackness… Figure 6 : Started to look messy…

I eliminated the noise, and changed the alpha values and the way the lines are drawn… By the way, what is this trace exactly? When two agents overlap or touch, we check it with simple math, they draw a line. Lines anatomy differs according to how they came across. This will become an issue in the future because checking will make me pay when there are A LOT fof these guys.

Figure 7 : It seems a little order is introduced…

I put all that seems attractive to me somehow. Let us see what happens when things get out of hand.

Figure 8 : When too much noise makes your eyes pay…