This tiny project is a procedural image generator that starts with a random top row of pixels, and iteratively generates the rows below according to some rule. Each row depends only on the row immediately above.
- Primitive 1-to-1.
Pixel's RGB values are jittered RGB values of the pixel above.
- Genetic, 2 parents.
Each pixel has 2 parents: dad (above left) and mom (above right). R, G, and
B values are genes. Alleles are chosen randomly and independently from mom
or dad and jittered (think inheritance with mutation).
- Genetic, 3 parents.
Each pixel has the pixel immediately above as third parent in addition to
'mom' and 'dad' from 2.
- Averaging, 2 parents.
RGB values of pixel are averaged mom and dad's RGB values with some random
noise added.
- Averaging, asymmetric, 2 parents.
Same as 2, except dad is directly above, mom is above right.
Clone repo, then:
makeThis produces the row_by_row executable, which takes 4 mandatory parameters:
width in pixels, height in pixels, strategy (1-5, per numbering above),
and filename where the image is saved. The output is in PPM format.
For example:
./row_by_row 2880 1800 2 image.ppm