Color Mixing using Colliding Particles

Year: 2008 Authors: Gary R. Greenfield

Core claim

Carefully orchestrated streams of colliding particles can be used to generate aesthetically useful color mixing and splat effects in algorithmic art.

Topics

particle simulation, color mixing, algorithmic art, virtual paint

Domains

physics-based modeling, Newtonian motion, collision mechanics, algorithmic art, digital painting, color study, simulation aesthetics

Methods

forward integration, elastic collision model, jittered stream initialization, particle splat diffusion

Media

virtual canvas, RGB color, simulated paint particles, 5-pixel neighborhood splats

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