Equation Art Anagrams by Richard Grantham



Three pictures generated by mathematical formulae that are anagrams of one another.
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If the applet pictures do not appear, click on the thumbnails below to view a (lower-quality) full-size version of that picture. (187KB, 237KB, 142KB respectively)


Each picture is 512*512 pixels, with a horizontal i-axis (increasing left to right) and a vertical j-axis (increasing top to bottom). The i-coordinate and j-coordinate of each pixel are used to determine the colour at that point using the following anagrammatic formulae (re = red, gr = green, bl = blue):

pic1

re = 255*ln(abs(i-j))
bl = 255*cos(i/32.0)/cot(i/32.0)+tan((i+j)/(52127/151.0))
gr = -2.0*re

pic2

re = 255*(cot(i/32.0)/cot(j/32.0))
bl = 255*(asin(i/512.0)+asin(j/512.0))
gr = (7*2)-1+re-bl

pic3

re = 255*(cos(i/32.0)*cos(j/32.0))
bl = 255*(tan(i/512.0)/tan((i+j)/512.0))
gr = 127-re-bl+i

The above formulae are strict anagrams in which every letter, digit and symbol is accounted for.

Each value of re, gr, bl was mapped into the range of acceptable colours by making it an integer from 0 to 255. This was done by making the value positive, rounding it to an integer then finding the remainder when divided by 256:

x = (int)(abs(x))%256

In the code below, this was achieved using "inrange(x)". Dummy mathematical expressions have also been employed to simplify the code (but also because ln() is named log() in Java, cot() is not provided at all, and typing Math.xxx() all the time is clunky).


//Picture drawing code

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class GramPicPanel extends JPanel {

	private int picNo = 0;
	
	public GramPicPanel () {
		setBackground(Color.white);
		addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter () {
			public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
				picNo = (picNo+1)%3;
				repaint();
			}
		});
	}
	
	public void paintComponent (Graphics g) {
		super.paintComponent(g);
		int re, gr, bl;
		for (int i=0; i<512; i++) {
			for (int j=0; j<512; j++) {
				if (picNo == 0) {
					re = inrange(255*ln(abs(i-j)));
					bl = inrange(255*cos(i/32.0)/cot(i/32.0) + tan((i+j)/(52127/151.0)));
					gr = inrange(-2.0*re);
				} else if (picNo == 1) {
					re = inrange(255*(cot(i/32.0)/cot(j/32.0)));
					bl = inrange(255*(asin(i/512.0)+asin(j/512.0)));
					gr = inrange((7*2)-1 + re - bl);
				} else {
					re = inrange(255*(cos(i/32.0)*cos(j/32.0)));
					bl = inrange(255*(tan(i/512.0)/tan((i+j)/512.0)));
					gr = inrange(127 - re - bl + i);
				}
				g.setColor(new Color(re, gr, bl));
				g.fillRect(i, j, 1, 1);
			}
		}
	}

	private double abs(double x) { return Math.abs(x); }
	private double abs(int x) { return Math.abs(x); }
	private double sin(double x) { return Math.sin(x); }
	private double cos(double x) { return Math.cos(x); }
	private double tan(double x) { return Math.tan(x); }
	private double cot(double x) { return 1/(Math.tan(x)); }
	private double asin(double x) { return Math.asin(x); }
	private double ln(double x) { return Math.log(x); }
	private int inrange(double x) { return (int)(abs(x))%256; }
	private int inrange(int x) { return (int)(abs(x))%256; }

}

//Applet display code

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class GramPicApplet extends JApplet {

	private GramPicPanel disp = new GramPicPanel();

	public void init () {
		Container cp = getContentPane();
		disp.setBounds(0,0,512,512);
		cp.setLayout(null);
		cp.add(disp);
	}
}

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