Prototype for a sand mandala generator. I finally have an excuse to work a bit more on this! I was really fascinated by some monks who came to Winnipeg ages ago and produced a sand mandala on the floor of a neighbourhood art gallery. Gorgeous, colourful, temporary work.
In this version of the tool, I create a bunch of “Ants” who walk around leaving sand everywhere, each a different colour. I’m working on giving the ants different “personalities”, one ant will love spirals, and the next will be really drunk, some ants will only walk straight lines. Here’s the collective work of a bunch of wibbly-wobbly ants coming back from the pub. 
The circular and radially symmetric forms naturally emerge, because I’m cloning the ants in quadrants and they can’t help but sometimes walk radially. (Some of them will preferentially do this in the final version.) This is fun to see in action – there’s a lot going on when you get 40 of them walking around.
