I found this approach to generating random, yet pleasing looking images to be just too cool not to fiddle with. The developer behind Invader.Fractal has put together a slick demonstration of what happens when you randomlly fill out a 15 bit grid and then mirror it in rendered form.
Using the concept, I whipped up a bit of JavaScript code to do the same thing. You can find that code here, and you can see it in action by visiting this page. Here's a screenshot of my toy page in action:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX8UVkSXpzcdGVNiQoB3GuByfCtDur9CTboJdul-OugH2Yq4AqQSd2pNQ3Is9JS24bWe-LpbsGakFlNdWzXVlVLhht1IDkoK3GtyoC7qwyPylhswYHonbCZNmMAvgFBc9i5B15tg/s580/invaders.png)
I'm a fan of the power simplistic images can hold but even I never imaged that such a simple algorithm could give life to such interesting characters.
Thanks to Christian Kellermann's post, which pointed me to Invader.Fractal in the first place.
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