Every time I get back to my amateurish coding and learning the potential of Processing, I am always surprised and fascinated how just a few lines of even bad code provide complex and occasionally pleasing results.  And this is even before I have gone properly into more complex ideas of emergence, dynamic systems and other theories I want to explore visually.  Theory w/out words?  I suppose being rather visual in orientation, it helps me think when I can directly see the outcome of what I am doing emerge in front of me.  So while playing around with recursive functions today and I came up with this by writing about 20 lines of quite messy code using mostly simple random equations.  Thought it would be nice to show the screenshot here as a starter to my long road to mastering the interface of aesthetics and underlying code — the plan eventually is to develop a database of “palettes” that can be used for various projects.  But meanwhile, here is a quick example (with just a little color correction post-factotum):

And a detail of this:

[Tools used: Processing, CS3)