Inspiration for the animated GIF shown below came when I looked down on the Netherlands from an airplane window recently. The similarities are awesome, no?

Lots of credit goes to the lovely Processing software, and the generative software Jared Tarbell so aimiably shares with the world. A little tinkering got it up and running today. Not in real time – yet – but as an animated GIF.

Am thinking about making my own version from scratch – but need to do some more studying before I can really appreciate the simple and elegant code that is behind all of Jarbells stuff. To be continued!

Later: improved version, made today: