Mandalas
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Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can’t do in the real world (Marcus Du Sautoy, mathematician)
From time to time I have a look to some of my previous posts: it’s like seeing them through another’s eyes. One of my first posts was this one, where I draw fractals using the Multiple Reduction Copy Machine (MRCM) algorithm. That time I was not clever enough to write an efficient code able generate deep fractals. Now I am pretty sure I could do it using ggplot
and I started to do it when I come across with the idea of mixing this kind of fractal patterns with Voronoi tessellations, that I have explored in some of my previous posts, like this one. Mixing both techniques, the mandalas appeared.
I will not explain in depth the mathematics behind this patterns. I will just give a brief explanation:
- I start obtaining
n
equidistant points in a unit circle centered in(0,0)
- I repeat the process with all these points, obtaining again
n
points around each of them; the radius is scaled by a factor - I discard the previous (parent)
n
points
I repeat these steps iteratively. If I start with n points and iterate k times, at the end I obtain nk points. After that, I calculate the Voronoi tesselation of them, which I represent with ggplot
.
This is an example:
Some others:
You can find the code here. Enjoy it.
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