A piece of generative art built by Christophe Cariou with R.
Thanks to Christophe Cariou for this ” R snail”, also available on the accidental art twitter page.
par(mfrow=c(1,1),mar=c(0,0,0,0),oma=c(1,1,1,1))
plot(0,0,type="n", xlim=c(-2,32), ylim=c(3,27),
xaxs="i", yaxs="i", axes=FALSE, xlab=NA, ylab=NA,
asp=1)
for (j in 0:35) {
for (i in 0:35) {
R <- 8
alpha <- j*10
X <- 15+R*cos(alpha/180*pi)
Y <- 15+R*sin(alpha/180*pi)
r <- 3
beta <- i*10
x <- 15+r*cos(beta/180*pi)
y <- 15+r*sin(beta/180*pi)
d1 <- sqrt((X-x)^2+(Y-y)^2)
xc <- x
yc <- y
n <- 180-atan((Y-y)/(X-x))/pi*180
alpha2 <- -(0:n)
theta <- alpha2/180*pi
b <- d1/(n/180*pi)
r <- b*theta
x1 <- xc+r*cos(theta)
y1 <- yc+r*sin(theta)
lines(x1,y1, col="black")
}
}