April 7, 2011 11:00 pm
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Using Prime Numbers to Generate Backgrounds
bpeh123 pointed out an article about generating organically tiled backgrounds inspired by the life cycle of cicadas. The trick is to overlay multiple background tiles with prime widths thus generating a series that does not repeat for a sufficiently long period. This introduces a seeming irregularity and makes the background appear much more natural.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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