Seeds are placed one golden angle apart on a widening spiral, the arrangement a sunflower head uses, and the whole disc turns and breathes.
Curve & Field Backgrounds
Harmonograph Decay
Two pendulums swing out of step and slowly lose energy, so the trace spirals inward and the figure tightens instead of closing.
- harmonograph
- pendulum
- damped
About Harmonograph Decay
Two pendulums swing out of step and slowly lose energy, so the trace spirals inward and the figure tightens instead of closing.
Part of Curve & Field Backgrounds. Runs 15 seconds by default, exports in 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5, as MP4 or transparent WebM up to 8K.
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