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thumbuki
Paranoids
Oct 6th, 2008, 7:07pm  
Paranoids
http://www.thumbuki.com/processing/paranoids/

Paranoids is based on the Rorschach inkblot test, where “Psychologists use this test to try to examine the personality characteristics and emotional functioning of their patients.”

Rorschach inkblot test @ Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_inkblot_test

When I’m looking at the generated images, I see monsters, aliens, mechs, robots with gun turrets, insects, etc. However, where I see monsters, you may see kittens. So I’m unsure of what this says about my state of mind. Smiley
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glenn
Re: Paranoids
Reply #1 - Oct 6th, 2008, 7:41pm  
i keep seeing crown jewels - what does that say?
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NoahBuddy
Re: Paranoids
Reply #2 - Oct 14th, 2008, 8:39am  
I think I saw one of the mechs you mentioned. I also saw a dragon-headed beetle... with antlers.

Very cool (I think) Wink
The only thing I can think of to change would be a way to save selected patterns, though if I spent enough time, I could probably figure that out.
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thumbuki
Re: Paranoids
Reply #3 - Oct 14th, 2008, 5:56pm  
NoahBuddy,

Since posting that applet, I've spent some time developing Paranoids further.  One of the features I've added is being able to specify the random seed, so that it's possible to recreate a specific paranoid.

The random seed has been personally very useful.  I started ray tracing paranoids, and it can sometimes take up to half an hour to render one.  Being able to preview paranoids in 2D, grabbing the seeds for the good ones, and dropping them into the ray tracer version has been a big time saver.

There are some examples of the ray traced paranoids here:
http://flickr.com/photos/thumbuki/sets/72157607864156374/

I plan on releasing a more complete version, with user interaction support.  It will be done in time for halloween.
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