Rusty_Art 🌈 🎨

Creative coding with Rust! 🦀

In this repository, I will create animations and optical illusions that allow for the generation of various patterns in my spare time. So, this repo is consistently updated and current 😄

Most of my files feature a graphical user interface (GUI), enabling real-time adjustments to the animations and opening up the possibility to create thousands of unique patterns.

I hope you enjoy it!

🚀 Usage/Installation:

This section is intended for those who are new to GitHub or Rust and may not be familiar with these tools.

1- Install Rust Programming Language

2- Click on the green "Code" button at the top right of this page. Then, select "Download ZIP" from the dropdown menu. After the ZIP file finishes downloading, extract it to a folder on your computer.

3- Open the terminal (also known as command prompt or cmd) on your computer. You can simply open it in the folder "rusty_art" by right-clicking on the folder and selecting "Open in Terminal".

To run the files, in the root directory of the project, type the commands in the following style (Shader names are the same as rust backend; no need to use extensions)

```bash
    cargo run --release --bin <filename>
```

That's it! If you encounter any issues while opening/running files, feel free to contact me. 😊

Saving Frames 📸

To create high-resolution videos, you can save each frame as a PNG image by holding down the spacebar while the animations are running. This will save each frame in a folder called "frames" which will be created automatically in your current directory (Yes for all files, some of them also work with zoom with mouse wheels, but not all). Once you've saved all the frames you want, you can create a video file by copying the images to a folder and running the following command in that folder:

```bash
    ffmpeg -r 60 -f image2 -start_number 10000 -i %d.png -vf "scale=-2:990,format=yuv420p" -vcodec libx264 -crf 10 output.mp4
```

This command will use the images in the "frames" folder to create a video file named "output.mp4" in the same folder. The video will be encoded with the libx264 codec at a constant rate factor of 10 and with a pixel format of yuv420p. The frame rate will be set to 60 frames per second (-r 60).

Note: You need to install ffmpeg to create videos.

Warning ⚠️

I only tested these codes on my notebook with the following specs:

CPU: Ryzen 7 6800h Ram: DDR5 16GB GPU: Nvidia RTX 3060 mobile

And I must say that some of the files are very computationally intensive. So, if you have a relatively "low-end" computer, you may not be able to run some of the scripts smoothly. I'm sorry about that. 😔 And please don't run the files on your computer if you don't have a good cooling system. I don't want to be responsible for any damage to your computer. 😅

Always open if you have any suggestions or "cheap" tricks (in terms of reducing computational complexity) to improve the performance of the scripts. 😊

Animations that are computationally intensive (in my opinion):

• peace2 and peace3
• mandelbrot (both CPU and GPU versions)
• pixelrain
• attractors
• gabor (CPU version)

🖼️ Some Examples:

Click on the images to open the videos 😊

Attractors	Expensive Mandelbrot	Ernst Chladni's Plate Experiments
Code	Code	Code

Draw something with Fourier Cycloid	Fake Fluid Dynamics	Hilbert Curve Image
Code	Code	Code

Mandelbrot Set	Munker Illusion	Neuron Simulation
Code	Code	Code

Snowflake	Voronoi Image	Galaxy
Code	Code	Code

Reverse Phi Motion	Gabor Patch	Asahi illusion
Code	Code	Code

Love WGPU	Lorenz System	Neural Net
Code	Code	Code

Pinna illusion	oscillation	lensing
Code	Code	Code

fourier	sinh	tree
Code	Code	Code

Cafewall Illusion	lilac chaser illusion	Peace2
Code	Code	Code

imgblob	Leviant's Optical Illusion	ULAM Spiral
Code	Code	Code

alien brain	Kinetic Pupils	blobs
Code	Code	Code