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emergent voronoi – a la Coates

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Alasdair Turner has posted this processing version of Paul Coates’ emergent Voronoi algorithm from his book Programming Architecture

Alasdair says “This is an implementation of an emergent Voronoi diagram, following an algorithm presented in programming.architecture by Paul Coates. It adapts the algorithm slightly to give a good convergence. Coates simply says “move away from the nearest node”, which is wonderfully elegant!“

It is an impressive and clear way of explainign what is really going on behind all those funny shapes people make.