Fun Colors with Math and Python

I wrote a Python script to generate a series of pretty cool images, and thought it was enjoyable enough to watch that I would put it on YouTube.

Basically, this is the function sin(x)+cos(y) where x and y both range from -5 to 5. The hue of a pixel's location is the value of that function plus a small number times the amount of frames that have passed, all modded by 1.0 to get a number I can convert to a hue.

This was done using the pygame module from http://www.pygame.org/.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• trippy
• visual
• python
• pygame
• psychedelic
• colours
• colors

[byrdsmaniac]

It's ugly. (No offense)

[therpham]

None taken. It's not like I poured my soul into it or something. I thought it was sort of interesting to watch when I made it so I uploaded it, but the older it gets the less I like it.

[dalung]

May I use this in a music video i'm making? Thanks.

[therpham]

Okay, just give me credit somewhere.

[TheCh0senGamer]

Hey, I see an optical illusion! Stare at it for a while, then pause it (or if it lags, like mine always does :P)

[LILME805]

i like it,couldve use some music though

[FHomeBrew]

Try some fractal patterns next. They're quite easy. Python already has a complex numbers module or something so go ahead and try the mandelbrot or dragon fractal. Or some lorenz attractors are always fun :-)

[bleeper2147]

Hey dude, whoever posted it, why don't you post the equation in Python?

[perfectplastic]

i thought in 5 min you will show the script, not th result for 5 minutes is boring, but nice script

[morgmagg]

This is nice, soothing. I like how 2 of the visible tunnels are expanding until they melt into an adjacent tunnel, which is contracting. A wider view with 4 visible tunnels would be even more cool.

[jacklukerock09]

i lookd @ this w/ glasses and the colors wer gren orang & blu and without glasses the colors wer red gren & blu

[iceman2792]

maybe late but it's pygame

[chill13j]

what engine are you using for this? i know your using python as the interpreter but are you using pygame or something?

[JASONE1986]

maybe a bit too long?

[Eendeebo]

Yeah it seems to continue expanding