Randomly creating cfdg files?
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 1:17 pm
Again a strange idea.
What about to create random cfdg files?
It could follow some basic guidelines, for example specify some base colours and then some startrules. I was thinking that it could help to create strange surface patterns maybe.
I had this idea after reading description of najitools:
"najitool has reached its original goal of generating every possible file you specify at a fixed size"
I.e. najitool can create every possible file, and I would say for a given setting, 99,99999% of them are totally useless. But it could be interesting to have some program automagically audit these files and scan for patterns of "quality" (just like with generating music, then trying to find music which sounds good to human ears).
I am not sure if its understandable what I am trying to say.
Basically that you have a generator doing cfdg files, and
creating only cfdg files that follow a certain generator pattern, then watching these files. (I have a small script that so far only generates one image from one already existing cfdg file, then putting those links into a single .html page with 3x3 table display. I thought it was nice to look at all these cfdg generated files, but I was also not totally happy that the cfdg files already exist - would be more fun to have my script generate almost totally random cfdg files that follow some rules, but I am not sure where to start for some generator rules ...)
Ok, enough rambling for now, I almost feel as if i am spamming the forum with my strange ideas
What about to create random cfdg files?
It could follow some basic guidelines, for example specify some base colours and then some startrules. I was thinking that it could help to create strange surface patterns maybe.
I had this idea after reading description of najitools:
"najitool has reached its original goal of generating every possible file you specify at a fixed size"
I.e. najitool can create every possible file, and I would say for a given setting, 99,99999% of them are totally useless. But it could be interesting to have some program automagically audit these files and scan for patterns of "quality" (just like with generating music, then trying to find music which sounds good to human ears).
I am not sure if its understandable what I am trying to say.
Basically that you have a generator doing cfdg files, and
creating only cfdg files that follow a certain generator pattern, then watching these files. (I have a small script that so far only generates one image from one already existing cfdg file, then putting those links into a single .html page with 3x3 table display. I thought it was nice to look at all these cfdg generated files, but I was also not totally happy that the cfdg files already exist - would be more fun to have my script generate almost totally random cfdg files that follow some rules, but I am not sure where to start for some generator rules ...)
Ok, enough rambling for now, I almost feel as if i am spamming the forum with my strange ideas