http://esmithy.net/2005/10/20/by-chance/ Stuff Hammered Out by Eric Smith Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:29:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://esmithy.net/2005/10/20/by-chance/comment-page-1/#comment-5293 Raven Morris Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:16:48 +0000 http://esmithy.net/wp/?p=61#comment-5293 I think you could greatly improve the speed and "flow" of watching it work by changing it to instead of picking a random colour for a random pixel, take the random pixel and randomly shift the R and/or G and/or B components within a limit. For example a limit of 64 (assuming the RGB components are ouf of 256 each) might work. Start with black for every pixel, then randomly shift a pixel up to 64 of R, G and B -- the image would sort of jumpily fade in with a bit of sparkling as colours overshot and gradually worked their way to the proper colour. I think it would look cool. I guess it wouldn't be as "random" as your method, but still worth trying out. I think you could greatly improve the speed and “flow” of watching it work by changing it to instead of picking a random colour for a random pixel, take the random pixel and randomly shift the R and/or G and/or B components within a limit. For example a limit of 64 (assuming the RGB components are ouf of 256 each) might work. Start with black for every pixel, then randomly shift a pixel up to 64 of R, G and B — the image would sort of jumpily fade in with a bit of sparkling as colours overshot and gradually worked their way to the proper colour. I think it would look cool. I guess it wouldn’t be as “random” as your method, but still worth trying out.

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