Polycursion can produce really beautiful patterns!
They are generated iteratively :
- An initial n-gon, whose vertices are located randomly, is generated.
- On each edge of this n-gon, a point is selected (specifically, a lerp of the two end points, t = 0.2)
- The new points are connected together and the step 2 is repeated for this new polygon.
(All in all, please, have fun hacking it).
- To zoom in/out use Z and X
- To move around use arrow keys
- To roll a new pattern use C
- To center the image and reset zoom use V
- To change number of sides of the base polygon use N
- To change the amount of iterations use M
- To save a beautiful masterpiece to a file use S
This project uses GLAD loader and GLFW to make OpenGL work and LodePNG to make screenshots.
The project has submodules, so in order to clone the repository correctly, one may clone with --recursive flag, like so
$ git clone --recursive <url-of-this-repo>
If you've already cloned the repository, you may download the submodules as follows
$ cd <path-to-repo>
$ git submodule update --init
To build the project run
$ cd <path-to-repo>
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
The build directory will contain the executable and the required shaders. To run the application simply type
$ ./polycur