Entropy Painter

Entropy Painter will seem at first like a simple program designed for simple random pixel painting creations, when in fact it is more of a demonstration of a concept.

It uses HRNG to create beautiful random canvases and although not much can be done with the resulting creation, other than displaying it in a virtual environment or printing it for a more physical approach, the mechanism behind this program is indeed worth taking into consideration.

When I first launched the program, I felt it was indeed the simplest I have seen in ages. In fact, you only get one button and a blank canvas. Once hit, the button will automatically allow the application to move into action and fill the adjacent canvas with randomly colored pixels. The story behind your resulting pattern is quite cool.

Using Hardware Random Number Generators, the application associates each colored pixel with a number.

Each particular number is then transformed as previously stated in color and the whole canvas is ultimately filled with random numbers, resulting in a vastly colored picture that represents some of the more modern works of art.

Once the whole system is explained, it does seem a lot cooler and the resulting colored canvases gain more meaning. Regardless, the procedure is still the same, and ultimately I felt the whole system could be implemented into all sorts of scenarios, like creating random texture files for characters within a game or simply filling random virtual spaces with more color and style.

Entropy Painter is a simple program with a cool story behind its working mechanism, but unfortunately without much implementation when it comes to real-world actions and events. Even so, one must agree that it holds a lot of potential and could have some really cool ways to prove its point in the virtual realm of programs.