Last night, I had the idea to take part of the previous fluid solver, but instead of placing the “ink” in a grid, I’d replace it with particles and have those move according to the velocity grid. It would give a stronger impression of detail.
It didn’t look all that great from a realistic point of view, but I discovered that when I added permanent trails, things started to look more interesting, even tho I was moving further and further away from my initial idea. After some more experimentation, the result is some interesting pseudo-art (”pseudo” since I’m not an artist, and never will be 
).
I like how some of them turned out, but that’s coming from a guy who likes to look at pictures of strange attractors and spends too much time staring at his cigaret smoke 
All of these were generated in Flash using Alchemy.
Willem
on Mar 25th, 2009
@ 3:41 pm:
Very beautiful. To me they exhibit a LOTR character.
makc
on Mar 25th, 2009
@ 5:57 pm:
art is not something beautiful (check out Hermann Nitsch), it is something that you do for self expression.
Henner
on Mar 27th, 2009
@ 12:48 am:
maybe its not art but it is definitely design.. you will be a rich man.. or you can just share the code and make other people rich
Henner
on Mar 27th, 2009
@ 12:48 am:
oh and please post these pictures on flickr in the group “generative and evolutionary art”!
Rien
on Mar 27th, 2009
@ 10:06 am:
Nice work David! It must have been the Double Whopper at Burger King which made you able to get this done! Those things are energy bombs
David
on Mar 27th, 2009
@ 1:37 pm:
Willem: Thx!
Makc: True enough, but for the record: I didn’t state art needs to be beautiful. Me not being an artist and me liking some of the results are two unrelated statements
Henner: Flickr, eh? I’ll think about it – don’t really feel the need to join another social medium
Rien: Correction: Tripple Whopper! That 50% more meat! Cheers!
makc
on Mar 27th, 2009
@ 2:22 pm:
I was actually thinking that you personally think your stuff is not good enoug to qualify as “art”; so my point was that it is art regardless.
David
on Apr 1st, 2009
@ 9:08 am:
Ah lol, didn’t get that
But I have different reasons to think it’s not art – one of them being exactly the fact that I wasn’t really trying to express anything 
makc
on Apr 2nd, 2009
@ 2:56 pm:
ooh… that reminds me last king kong movie, when the monkey defeats three raptors, than just stands there for a while and finally walks away, like it doesnt really expect any appreciation.
David
on Apr 2nd, 2009
@ 8:17 pm:
Naw, I wouldn’t go that far. For one, I don’t nearly have as much chest hair
H
on Apr 17th, 2009
@ 10:42 pm:
Not an artist? My butt. This is great!