a grok pure and simple

particle renderer

“SPORE is an ongoing software/aesthetic development project that has grown out of a proprietary ultra-high speed particle renderer which runs on Irix, Linux, and OSX. All the images on page 1 and 2 are stills from animations, and some of these stills are constructed with over 1 billion particles.”

Don’t take the drugs before you click because you could disappear for hours.

Via the wonderful Cliff Pickover’s Reality Carnival.

3 Responses to “a grok pure and simple”

  1. Russell Allen Says:

    Amazing. Have shamefully harvested a few images for wallpaper. Sorry, mr author man.

  2. elle Says:

    brilliant!so beautiful!i can’t wait to get lost..

  3. John Manimas Medeiros Says:

    May I use this image (a grok pure and simple) as a button link on my website [jmanimas.com]? It is the perfect image to illustrate my viewpoint that a circle in the real universe has a circumference composed of particles.

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