Tim Day

This is an interactive generative art application to evolve images/textures/patterns/animations through an iterative process of random mutation and user-selection driven evolution. This process is also often referred to as "evolutionary art" or "genetic art". If you like lava lamps, and still ... [More] think the Mandelbrot set is cool, this could be the software for you. [Less]

The most natural solution to many rendering problems is to simply implement a function to return the colour at an 2D image coordinate. However, such image-space implementations tend to be uncompetitive with object-space alternatives which can exploit the superior coherence of that space (although ... [More] often at the cost of increased implementation complexity). Voluminum contains some experimental code which attempts to redress the balance by capitalizing on the potential of the image-space approach to deploy a limited budget of samples in a smarter way reflecting actual scene saliency. [Less]