Fields · Study 001
Ink Currents
Watch 1,400 ink particles trace a slowly shifting noise field, an interactive flow field study that swirls around your pointer.
What you're looking at
Each particle reads an angle from a smooth noise function at its position, takes a small step in that direction, and leaves a thin stroke behind. The field drifts over time, so rivers form, braid and dissolve. Nothing steers a particle except the number under its feet.
The idea behind it
Flow fields are the workhorse of generative drawing because they turn one cheap function into thousands of coherent lines. The same trick models wind maps and iron filings: sample a direction everywhere, then let many small travellers reveal the shape of it.
Try this
Move the pointer through the field to stir a vortex. Restart for a new field.
