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— Static Generative Art —

Generative art that produces a still image that is randomized every time it's generated

What is Generative Art? — An interactive article that gives an overview of what exactly generative art is, and explains key concepts behind it. (2022)

Generative Art Gallery — A diverse collection of generative artworks I've created. Every piece will look completely different every time you redraw it, allowing for infinite unique designs and artworks. (2022)

AI-Programmed Art — You've probably heard of AI-generated art, but this is a unique twist on it — I used ChatGPT to write the actual programs that produce generative art. (December 2022)

Connectivity — Generate grids filled with random blocks that all connect to make continuous shapes, selecting up to 22 different types of unique blocks. (May 2022)

Bands — Generative designs formed by colorful interlocking bands make interesting patterns resembling machinery or spirals. (October 2021—November 2021)

Tiles — Generate a random colorful grid of up to 16 different types of tiles, with endless combinations and palettes. (2022)

Random Walker Shading — A plane is shaded and colored based on the movements of a random walker through thousands of steps, creating colorful and intricate designs resembling galaxies or clouds. (August 2021)

— Dynamic Generative Art —

Generative art that moves and changes over time, constantly shifting and updating

Generative Art Sketchpad — Draw abstract designs using different brushes that each have their own unique style and design. (August 2021)

Dots — Create spirograph-like patterns by changing how colored dots move around in ellipse paths. (July 2021)

Servo — Control how synchronized jointed arms rotate around each other, creating mesmerizing motions and designs. (July 2021)

Branching — Create lots of intricate patterns with colorful, branching trails. (2021)

Random Stripe Walker — A walker moves randomly across the canvas, drawing rectangular stripes in the direction it moves, forming interconnected paths and trails. (June 2022)

Living Art Gallery — An abstract, moving art gallery. (2021)

Metaballs — Watch as colorful, blobby metaballs float and squish around the screen in a lava lamp-like way. (August 2021)

— Natural Generative Art —

Generative art that replicates and stylizes different processes that can be found in nature

Brownian Snowflake — Generate icy, colorful snowflakes using symmetrical Brownian motion, which reflects how snowflakes form in the real world. (August 2021)

Flow Field — Thousands of glowing particles spawn into a flow field and move around, following the direction of the field, creating colorful, flowing trails behind them. This simulates the way that actual particles behave when in a chaotic fluid. (June 2022)

Brownian Tree — Generate and customize colorful tree-like growths made out of dots generated by Brownian motion, which mimics the natural phenomenon of Diffusion-Limited Aggregation. (July 2021)

Gravity Wells — Thousands of points leave glowing trails as they float towards a number of gravity wells around the canvas, leaving flowing patterns in their wake. (May 2022)

— Physics Games —

Games or simulations that demonstrate physics-based interactions and processes

Neon Double Pendulum — An interactive physics simulation of a colorful, chaotic double pendulum. (September 2021)

Bounce — A physics simulation about bouncing spheres with lots of customization. This is the first full project I ever created on this website. (2020)

Space Spheres — Create spheres that bounce around a circular boundary, and gravitate towards a draggable black hole. (2022)

Colliding Circles — A physics simulation about colliding (and sometimes exploding) spheres with different customization and collision modes. (2021)

— Other Games —

Jetpack Blob — A side-scroller game where your goal is to collect coins and avoid spikes. (2021)
Jetpack Joyride? Never heard of it.

Procedural Pinball — A procedural generation physics game where you navigate a ball to a portal, avoiding large colorful blocks in the way. (2021)

— Generators —

LipsumScript Generator — Generate random nonsense programs in the style of Lorem Ipsum filler text, with procedural expressions that resemble actual lines of Java code. (May 2023)

Profile Generator — Generates endless possible profile pictures and usernames. If you need ideas for a username, use this to generate random usernames and profile pictures for you to use anywhere. (May 2022)

Image Bleeding — Bleed colors from images or shapes together to create random, colorful results, mixing different parts of the image together. (2021)

Gradient Generator — A customizable color gradient generator, with CSS snippets to use the gradients on a website. (2020)

Cipher Generator — A tool to encode and decode messages using various ciphers. (work in progress) (2021)

— Fractals —

(Collection) Fractal Trees — A collection of 4 different fractal tree generators, which create colorful and unique designs that replicate natural tree growth. Each generator is a unique variation on a fractal tree, with very different results. (Early 2021—June 2022)

Fractalization — Turn simple grid designs into colorful and intricate fractals, with endless possibilities. (2020)

Mandelbrot Viewer — A colorful visualization of the famous Mandelbrot Set, which you can pan and zoom infinitely into. The fractal loads through several rendering passes which make it more detailed every time. (June 2022)

— Cellular Automata —

Cellular automata are simulations where cells are arranged in a grid or line and have simple rules applied to them over time, so that each cell changes state as a function of time

Conway's Game of Life — A simple 2D cellular automata that demonstrates complex emergence of patterns and designs, with over 250,000 possible rules. (October 2022)

Elementary Cellular Automaton — A simple, two-state 1D cellular automaton simulation with 256 selectable rules. (2021)

Ternary Elementary Cellular Automaton — A colorful, complex, three-state 1D cellular automaton simulation with over 7 trillion selectable rules. (2021)

Totalistic Cellular Automaton — A four-state 1D cellular automaton with a over 1 million simple rules that result in interesting outputs. (2021)

Block Cellular Automaton — A basic two-state, 1D block-neighborhood cellular automaton with 256 selectable rules. (2021)

Continuous Cellular Automaton — A cellular automaton where each cell can range from 0% to 100% brightness, creating complex gradient patterns. (2021)

Langton's Ant — A customizable 2D cellular automaton simulation involving simple ants. (work in progress) (2021)

— Random Math —

How Big is a Googolplex? — An article explaining the absolutely massive size of a Googolplex, 10^10^100. (circa 2020)

Misc Math — This is just a page where I have random math-related things and numbers that were calculated and compiled. (2022)

— Lonely Chat Room —

Lonely Chat Room — Chat alone in a chat room with gary271. Because you're lonely. (2021)

— The Islands of Misfit Code —

This is where I put everything I'm working on that hasn't been given its own page yet, from game ideas to random projects. Most of them are unfinished or not working, or just random mini projects that I never dedicated a page to.

There are a few gems in here that I really like, but which never saw the light of day anywhere else. The pages will load slowly since nearly 100 programs are starting up at the same time.

This is a lawless land...enter at your own risk.

Test Bed 1 — June 30, 2021 to October 17, 2021 (0.9 projects per day)

Test Bed 2 — October 17, 2021 to June 26, 2022 (0.39 projects per day)

Test Bed 3 — June 26, 2022 to present

— Similar Websites —

If you like this website, here's some other sites I'd highly recommend checking out. These are my personal favorite websites that have a similar style to mine, and I've sometimes gotten inspiration from them in the past.

Bicornum — Lots of unique and interesting stand-alone projects, ranging from 3D fractals to algorithm visualizations to pattern generators.

Geozone — A collection of some extremely satisfying and aesthetic animations and art generators, many mathematically based.

William Hoza — William Hoza is a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and has a collection of fun miscellaneous projects that encourage procrastination.

Dwitter — A website where coders are challenged to create amazing projects, animations, or works of art using JavaScript -- except the source code has to be short enough to fit in a Tweet, so every project is limited to 140 total characters of code.

— About e4494s —

The name "e4494s" comes from taking the word "error" (which is a username I've used for years), and swapping the letters "rror" with the numbers that are above them on a keyboard, so "rror" becomes "4494," and then adding an S to make "e4494s."

I'm a college sophomore studying Computer Science and Math, who codes random things in his free time. I started learning JavaScript during Spring Break 2020 using the website S2JS, an intro to JavaScript which I highly recommend.

Huge shoutout to Mrs. Evans, who was my amazing computer science teacher in high school. She's the reason I ever got interested in computer science in the first place. Another shoutout to Mr. Carns, who was my fantastic math teacher in high school. These two people are one of the biggest reasons I got so interested in CS and math, which I'm now majoring in.

This site is actually technically my second website. My first one (wrandom.neocities.org) was made back in 2017 before I knew how to program; it initially consisted of a few bullet points talking about my favorite numbers or something. But soon after I made it, I replaced everything with the source code for Cookie Clicker, which I thought would give me my own clone of the game. It sadly didn't remotely work, and I abandoned the site.

— Old Projects —

A collection of older projects I've created over the years, which are either not polished enough to be given a proper page, or they were replaced by a more updated version of themselves at some point.

Game of Life (old version of Conway's Game of Life) — A customizable 2D cellular automaton simulation based in simple rules that creates complex and chaotic results. (2021)

Mandelbrot Set (old version of Mandelbrot Viewer) — A colorful and rudimentary Mandelbrot set visualizer. (2021)

Double Pendulum (old version of Neon Double Pendulum) — The chaos of a double pendulum creates intricate and seemingly random line designs. (2021)

Image Manipulation — Select an image or copy an image link, and view different edits of that image. This was originally going to have a lot more to it, but I never got around to doing much more with it. The "Kajfik" section is a reference to the profile picture of the mobile developer for the game Antimatter Dimensions. (circa 2021)

Profile Picture Generator (old version of Profile Generator) — Very simple profile picture generator I made but didn't fully fleshed out because I was never a huge fan of the output. You can generate random profile pictures, with 3 different modes. (circa 2021)

Cards — A project where you click and drag to create cards that bounce and trail around the screen. I was inspired by a Mr. Doob page and decided to try to recreate it. (circa 2021)

M — M. (circa 2021)

Sketchpad — A work-in-progress sketchpad that I never got fully worked out. The main problem was that I wanted to have layers so you could undo an action, but that also meant lots of arrays of points that slowed down the program the more you drew. (circa 2021)

100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall — Another extremely basic project I made back when I was first learning JavaScript. You type in a number, and the program spits out the lyrics to 100 Bottles of Beer, beginning with the number you inputted. I coded this in like 30 minutes on my phone one day to show one of my friends what I'd learned. (circa 2020)

Purple People — A simple simulation of little pixely people wandering around the screen. Click to add more people. I originally wanted to give the purple people AI movement and interactions, but I never got around to implementing it, so they just move randomly. (2020)

DVD on a TV — A super basic project I made back when I was first learning JavaScript. It's literally just a DVD on a TV, like the name suggests. Will it ever hit the corner? (2020)

Catcher — A very simple game I made from following one of the lesson tutorials from S2JS, and one of the first projects I made for this website. Use the arrow keys to move the bug and catch the falling watermelon. (2020)

— Blog —

This is a very unfinished section that I created to post a short message about e4494s' 4-year anniversary. I'll be updating it soon, hopefully.

4 Years of e4494s! (March 6th, 2024)