I think it’s pretty hypnotic.

It’s interactive: Click to change the animation. Click the left side for skinny tentacles, on the right side for fat ones. Click on the top for short ones and on the bottom for long ones.

This interactive animation is written in processing. I wrote it as a test for the awesome new Processing-JS engine, which converts processing code into HTML5.

If you are visiting in Chrome, Firefox or Safari web browsers, you should be able to see it right below. If you are visiting using internet explorer, I’m really not sure what you see, probably nothing (Let me know). At least you should be able to see some screen captures which give you a sense for the visuals.

Here is the source code for the curious.

Just discovered this incredible java-based open source flash-like product called processing.  Very simple to work with and excellent if you are trying to make art-like output for printing.  Lets you render at very large scale and output to very large images.

Here’s a digital take on the 8th painting in the ox herding series.

It looks different every time. Here are some random renderings that I liked:

<br /> No Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition v 1.4.1 support for APPLET!!<br />

Here is more of a spherical version:

And here is a hi-res image over here, and a little cut-out to give you a sense for the texture: