A dream about flowers

Posted by Dan on Jan 20th, 2009
2009
Jan 20


Hana from Andreas Muller on Vimeo.

 

Hana (Japanese for “flower”) is a Mac OSX screensaver.  From Andreas Muller’s blog:

 

Hana is a dream about flowers for computers.

The idea is that no aspect of creating the flowers is hidden from the computers, everything is created in code and no bitmaps are used that the computer has not seen to the creation of itself, letting the computer “think” through every step.

 

This is an interesting constraint.  I tend to do the opposite, substituting data for code whenever possible.  I can give all the standard arguments as to why my style of programming is better, but none so eloquent as this.  Something to think about.