"Happy Place" by Jared Tarbell

Happy Place renders the resulting configuration of a system of friendly nodes. They are connected at random with preferences to nodes closer. Connections between nodes are considered friendships.

Nodes position themselves with only two goals in mind:
A. Move close to friends but no closer than some minimum distance.
B. Distance self from non-friends as reasonably as possible.

This in-browser application was created in Processing and requires Java enabled. 

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"Node Garden" by Jared Tarbell

Nodes are instantiated on irregular curving lines. When connected together, they form a Node Garden. The lines can be considered the substrate from which the nodes grow. The linear arrangement of the substrate in these early images is mathematically simple and makes irrigation of resources easy.

The in-browser application was created in Processing. The programmer is co-founder of Etsy.

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