Digital Sea Plant

Well, at least I think it resembles something similar to a sea plant. I really enjoy seeing how some relatively simple (everything is relative, right?) code can resemble something organic and life like. This 'plant' is only using an ellipse and a rectangle as its basic building material as well, and still it looks pretty cool if you ask me. I have been exploring the elastic class (which can be found with some explanation here: ( http://www.bit-101.com/tutorials/elasticity.html ) and also in my source code for the applet which can be found here: ( http://www.rsd.no/ExperimentalAnimation/ )

I was thinking I might hook it up to my 'pix reader' class, which is being used to detect movement in front of a camera, and then let it react to that movement, but I found that it was not really necessary at this point. I mean, I think it works well as a sketch at least, but maybe I test it with movement detection later. A really nice thing would be to have a touch screen attached to it, and then let it react (by withdrawing back in its shell) to touching. Unfortunately, a touch-screen is not cheap, and I do not know any people owing one either.