Design Statement:

We hoped to demonstrate a specific use of a spirograph-like procedure in order to produce a resemblence to flower(s) in a pot.  We tried to choose colors that would go well together and be similar to those found in a real flower.  Also, we chose to allow a number of possible color combinations to occur within a flower as well as between flowers in order to increase randomness allowed by the number n.  We also wanted to implement a sort of randomness when selecting for the number of stems originating from the pot.  The flowers themselves were allowed to have a number of different petals and the petals were allowed to be produced at different angles from each other as well as the bud. The pot was a different shape depending on the number of stems, and was intentionally left less detailed in order to draw attention to the flowers.

Technique Statement:

In our code we created and used a new fractal procedure which generates a large circle with smaller circles around it, and so on to a level of complexity appropriate to the image size. The number of circles offshooting from a larger one is generalized, so this fractal will take on the shape of a polygon with sides = number of offshoots.

We first created a "pot" using this fractal procedure on top of a simple circle.  We drew the "stems" by using a spirograph procedure which generates a series of filled circles increasing in both size and distance from the center of the image, making them appear to grow upward toward you.  At the end of each stem was a "flower" that was generated using the fractal procedure again.

The number of stems varies proportionally with the complexity of the pot-fractal, and inversely with the complexity of the flower-fractals.