# generative art
Generative art is what happens when a handful of simple rules, run over and over, produce something that looks designed. The Mandelbrot Set Explorer is the archetype — zoom into its boundary and new detail keeps appearing forever. Truchet Tiles and K-Fold Rotational Symmetry build ornate patterns out of repeated, randomly-oriented pieces, Islamic Geometric Patterns does the same with a centuries-old tiling tradition, and the Apollonian Gasket packs circles inside circles following Descartes' circle theorem. Others lean on physical or computational processes instead of pure geometry: Diffusion-Limited Aggregation grows branching, frost-like structures from random particle motion, Voronoi Growth tiles space around scattered points, and Generative City procedurally lays out streets and blocks. Cyclic Cellular Automata and Computational Photo Art round out the set with rule-based colour and image transformations.
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🧪 Simulations (10)
Simulations in this topic include Mandelbrot Set Explorer, Truchet Tiles, Cyclic Cellular Automata, K-Fold Rotational Symmetry, Islamic Geometric Patterns and Diffusion-Limited Aggregation.
🌀 Facts about this collection
- 10 simulations are tagged generative-art, the largest of the nine tags in this batch.
- Mandelbrot Set Explorer and Apollonian Gasket — Descartes' Circle Theorem Fractal are the two fractal-geometry entries, each built on infinitely self-repeating structure.
- Diffusion-Limited Aggregation is the only simulation here that generates its pattern from a physical growth process rather than a purely geometric rule.
- Islamic Geometric Patterns and Truchet Tiles both draw on historical tiling traditions rather than modern algorithmic art techniques.
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