This applet tries to illustrate the behaviour of a curious agent in 2D worlds that represent spaces of design possibilities. So far this is the only applet that demonstrates curiosity. Many of the others, however, allow you to be the curious agent and play with many of the same toys that my agents do. This is very much a work in progress at the moment. Documentation will be lacking until I've completed the user-interface.
Illusory contours are imaginary boundaries that are commonly perceived in optical illusions.
The emergence of shapes in sketches is thought to play an important part in the way that sketches support creativity in the early phases of designing. With this applet you can create line drawings and see the illusory contours emerge in real-time. The patterns it generates can be intricate a very beautiful. See if you can discover the underlying mathematical relationship between the radii of the wheels that determines the types of patterns that will be generated. The horns are 2D versions of the 3D horns evolved by William Latham.