Apollonian - Linux 256 bytes

Still C code and still Minsky circle, this draw some kind of Apollonian gasket fractal, not many big technical improvements there except colors tweak and clearer structure, it use the scaled down picture method of QuasiSpace.

It can be seen as an improved version of QuasiSpace, the code is pretty similar ! Could probably be done in 128 bytes on Linux by doing it in full assembly perhaps even C...

The algorithm is (roughly) as follow (you can "fill" the inside of the circles by adjusting x and y outside the loop) :

// init

x = 0

y = 1



// loop, preferably iterating more than once per loop

x -= (y << 2)

y -= (x >> 5) - (x >> 1)

x += (x >> 15) - (y << 2)



// scale it down when you plot it (here for a 512x512 image) : (x
>> 23), (y >> 23)



// outside the loop adjust x,y by adding the frame step (scaled up
by a big factor) to "fill" in details

adjusting x and y outside the loop "fill" in details

Twitter variant

setup=_=>{createCanvas(512,512);x=y=1e18;for(i=6e6;i--;){x-=y<<3;y-=(x>>8)-(x>>2);x+=(x>>18)-(y<<3);point(x>>22,y>>22)}}

variant published on Twitter (p5js framework)

More variants

Interesting variations can be done by adjusting the offsets such as :

// init

x = 0

y = 0



// in loop, preferably iterating more than once per loop

x += (y >> 2) + (1 << 27)

y -= (x >> 1)

x += (y >> 2) - (1 << 31)



// scale it down when you plot it (here for a 512x512 image) : (x
>> 23), (y >> 23)

adjusting offsets (dissimilar for first x and second x)

with same offset value for both x, probably similar to Trinskys

This also works with floats although values for x and y should be bounded (modulo) to produce the patterns, using floating point is flexible and may produce better results.

// init

x = 0

y = 0



for (let i = 0; i < 1e4; i += 1) {

  x += (y * 0.25) + (1 << 29)

  x %= (1 << 31) // necessary for floats for the
patterns to appear (will be the standard Minsky circle
otherwise)

  y -= (x * 0.5)

  y %= (1 << 31)

  x += (y * 0.25) + (1 << 30)

  x %= (1 << 31)

  // scale it down when you plot it (here for a 512x512 image)
: (x >> 22), (y >> 22)

}

with floats