Refactor to use a step function

posts/2023/06/flam3/0-utility.tsx

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ export const Canvas: React.FC<{ f: renderFn }> = ({ f }) => {
     }
   });
 
-  return <canvas ref={canvasRef} width={600} height={600} />;
+  return <canvas ref={canvasRef} width={400} height={400} />;
 };
 
 export function randomInteger(min: number, max: number) {

posts/2023/06/flam3/1-gasket.ts

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ function plot(x: number, y: number, image: ImageData) {
   //  pixelY = Math.floor((y + 1) * image.height / 2)
   //
   // However, that produces a mirror image (across both X and Y)
-  // from the paper. We'll invert X and Y to compensate.
+  // from the paper. We'll negate X and Y to compensate.
   // Second, because the gasket solution only contains points in
   // the range [0, 1), the naive plot above would waste 75% of
   // the pixels available. We'll keep the shift by 1 (to compensate

posts/2023/06/flam3/2a-variations.ts

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ function r(x: number, y: number) {
 }
 
 function theta(x: number, y: number) {
-  return Math.atan2(x, y);
+  return Math.atan2(y, x);
 }
 
 function omega(): number {
@@ -93,6 +93,18 @@ export function weightedChoice<T>(choices: [number, T][]) {
   throw "unreachable";
 }
 
+export class Flame {
+  x: number = Math.random() * 2 - 1;
+  y: number = Math.random() * 2 - 1;
+
+  constructor(public readonly transforms: [number, Transform][]) {}
+
+  step() {
+    const transform = weightedChoice(this.transforms);
+    [this.x, this.y] = transform.apply(this.x, this.y);
+  }
+}
+
 export function plot(x: number, y: number, image: ImageData) {
   const pixelX = Math.floor(((x + 2) * image.width) / 4);
   const pixelY = Math.floor(((y + 2) * image.height) / 4);
@@ -114,23 +126,13 @@ export function plot(x: number, y: number, image: ImageData) {
   image.data[index + 3] = 0xff;
 }
 
-export class Flame {
-  constructor(public readonly transforms: [number, Transform][]) {}
-
-  render(quality: number, image: ImageData) {
-    var x = Math.random() * 2 - 1;
-    var y = Math.random() * 2 - 1;
-
-    const iter = quality * (image.width * image.height);
-    for (var i = 0; i < iter; i++) {
-      const transform = weightedChoice(this.transforms);
-
-      // Play the chaos game
-      [x, y] = transform.apply(x, y);
+export function render(flame: Flame, quality: number, image: ImageData) {
+  const iterations = quality * image.width * image.height;
 
+  for (var i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
+    flame.step();
     if (i > 20) {
-        plot(x, y, image);
-      }
+      plot(flame.x, flame.y, image);
     }
   }
 }
@@ -185,5 +187,5 @@ export function renderBaseline(image: ImageData) {
     [transform3Weight, transform3],
   ]);
 
-  flame.render(1, image);
+  render(flame, 1, image);
 }

posts/2023/06/flam3/2b-post.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {
   julia,
   popcorn,
   pdj,
+  render,
   transform1Coefs,
   transform1Weight,
   transform2Coefs,
@@ -75,5 +76,6 @@ export function renderPost(image: ImageData) {
     [transform2Weight, transform2],
     [transform3Weight, transform3],
   ]);
-  flame.render(1, image);
+
+  render(flame, 1, image);
 }

posts/2023/06/flam3/2c-final.ts

@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ import {
   transform3Coefs,
   transform3Pdj,
   transform3Weight,
-  weightedChoice,
-  plot,
+  render,
 } from "./2a-variations";
 import { TransformPost, transform2Post } from "./2b-post";
 
@@ -26,22 +25,9 @@ export class FlameFinal extends Flame {
     super(transforms);
   }
 
-  render(quality: number, image: ImageData) {
-    var x = Math.random() * 2 - 1;
-    var y = Math.random() * 2 - 1;
-
-    const iter = quality * (image.width * image.height);
-    for (var i = 0; i < iter; i++) {
-      const transform = weightedChoice(this.transforms);
-      [x, y] = transform.apply(x, y);
-
-      // This line is the only thing that changes:
-      [x, y] = this.final.apply(x, y);
-
-      if (i > 20) {
-        plot(x, y, image);
-      }
-    }
+  step() {
+    super.step();
+    [this.x, this.y] = this.final.apply(this.x, this.y);
   }
 }
 
@@ -82,5 +68,5 @@ export function renderFinal(image: ImageData) {
     transformFinal
   );
 
-  flame.render(1, image);
+  render(flame, 1, image);
 }

posts/2023/06/flam3/index.tsx

@@ -14,10 +14,14 @@ export default function () {
   });
   return (
     <Layout>
+      <div>
         <Canvas f={gasket} />
         <Canvas f={renderBaseline} />
+      </div>
+      <div>
         <Canvas f={renderPost} />
         <Canvas f={renderFinal} />
+      </div>
     </Layout>
   );
 }