Zen photon garden

Sierpinksi Triangle: http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgXgB8AaYA2wJdANlWUlUCXgDZAg...

This was created by someone the last time this was on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5983421

It would be awesome to have a little blog post about why and how, this is very cool tech! I'm lazy I don't want to go read the code, I want a beautiful and clear explanation with pictures

Clever and pretty. Is it possible to add an "absorb" slider to the walls? I'm having trouble making some of the effects I'm trying for.

I like how having a lot of random stuff ends up making some natural-looking textures: http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgdwAeAAsAKgArABMA/wAASgH9AF...

I wish there was a "best of" for this. I don't have the arts enough to make anything visually pleasing and would love to see the results of those that do.

Artistic interpretation [1] of the Triforce:

http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgagAHAAABegQqAXgA/wABFwGJAg...

[1]: Have no right calling myself an artist of any sort, especially when I can't draw straight lines.

I particularly like the "exposure" slider on the righthand side. That's a neat UI element I intend to borrow.

Fantastic! I particularly like encoding the state in the URL - makes it very easy to share good designs you've built.

Am I going mad or is this a re-submission?

The model doesn't seem precise - there is no light diffraction. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_diffraction_formu...

It seems like this effect could be got much more efficiently using block lighting. you could get the gradients by storing the light's strength at each vertex. This way you would be tracing only two rays per line

My first reaction was to try the double-slit experiment, but unfortunately there was no interference pattern. Beautiful none the less. (Ok, a little less.)

Very nice, although it took me a few minutes to figure out how it works.

I wish you could save a high resolution PNG.

I dont understand what's going on ...

Add refraction, I want to make a laser.

really cool!

Why reboot your computer when you can just load this demo and up the settings!?!