Some interesting accidental images
while building a “pixel grid” in OpenGL.

Cellular automata / fun garbage.

Sep/Oct, 2005

My first experiment while learning 2D OpenGL resulted in these images. I’m not exactly sure how this happened, but the system creates cellular automata style images.

I am always intrigued by the idea of serendipity or “happy accidents”. Much like make the wrong cut in a piece of wood and then seeing a completely new carving staring back, I decided to treat this accident as a new result.

The following 6 images are reminiscent of cellular automata.
I ran the same accidental code with variations in grid size.

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The last 2 are interesting buffer garbage and make good desktop images 😀