deterministic generative art

fractal of the day

One image per calendar day — and nothing is stored. Each piece is a pure function of its date: a seed plus a handful of numbers. Same day, same art, forever. Turn the knobs below.

01Today & its recipe The image on the left is fully described by the numbers on the right.

$today's fractal$

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02Cosine palette tuner color(t) = a + b·cos(2π(c·t + d)) — the exact formula the engine uses, live.

03Same seed, four worlds Determinism makes this an honest experiment — only the toggled axis changes.

Composition

Palette source

Every panel grows from the same date seed. Switching marble → focal changes only the flow composition; cosine → reference changes only where colour comes from. Nothing else moves.

04How a day is made

Flow + warp. Particles advect through a domain-warped value-noise field, drawn as glowing ribbons with log-density tone mapping — the source of the "designed chaos."

Palette. Either a cosine palette (the formula in §02) or colours sampled from a reference image, assigned with spatial clumping.

Composition. The date seed picks marble (edge-to-edge) or focal (a radial explosion with negative space), then a depth-layered overlay adds rings, dots and diamonds.

Selection. The engine renders many candidates and keeps the best, judged by a free heuristic or an optional learned aesthetic model. The winner becomes the day.