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The Recursion Atlas

A field guide to computed forms — six specimens of algorithmic art, each drawn pixel by pixel in your browser from nothing but arithmetic. Nothing here is a photograph. Everything here is a number that learned to bloom.

FRACTALS· ATTRACTORS· FLOW FIELDS· L-SYSTEMS OF THE MIND
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Plate 02

Julia, Drifting

The Mandelbrot's siblings. Freeze its formula at one fixed c and a whole new universe appears. Here c wanders slowly along a curve, so the set breathes — dissolving from connected dust to filigree and back.

Plate 03

The Clifford Attractor

A single point, bounced through four sine waves a few hundred thousand times. It never lands twice, yet it never escapes — tracing a ghost shape that only exists in the accumulation.

Plate 04

Vector Currents

Thousands of particles set adrift on an invisible field of angles derived from flowing noise. Each follows the local current, leaving a trail — together they map a weather system that has no weather.

Plate 05

Golden Bloom

The same rule a sunflower uses. Place each seed 137.5° around from the last — the golden angle — and florets pack with impossible efficiency, spiraling in two directions at once. Nature's favourite irrational number, made visible.

Plate 06

Harmonograph

A drawing made by pendulums. Two swinging weights, slowly losing energy, guide a pen across paper. Victorian parlours had the real machines; this one is pure trigonometry, decaying toward stillness.