Cones of silence

The cone code took a while to iron into something that looked sort of right, and adding powers and things was necessary to shape it with a curve rather than a boring flat edge. Luckily, JP taught us these things in his infinite wisdom, so I know how to do them! That worked out well.

This is looking very healthy and chunky and mangy. You can start to see the problem with the cone code in that last image though, the tapering bottom is too sparse. Chairs get filtered out if they do not sit on a point inside a defined radius, given their height, but to maintain uniform density it is still picking locations within the whole bounding box, meaning chairs don't naturally fall into the narrow bit often enough. Increasing the density would just add too many chairs in other parts of the cone.

While I was fretting about this, however, a magical thing happened. A certain Miss Eleanor came to sit next to be, and bestow her Eye of Discernment upon my work. Noticing that the spiral was denser at the bottom, and the cone denser at the top, she suggested I combine the two forms. I had actually considered this, but somehow decided against it in my head before even trying it. Somehow when Elle suggested it, it made sense.

And behold! From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
That's Darwin, you guys. Isn't he great?

That last one has an incremental rotate on the spiral to highlight itself against the chaotic background, but I don't know if I want it to stand out that much. The spiral also doesn't wrap the cone tight enough. Numbers, numbers, everywhere.