Generating Chaos

Keep a record. I came across Chaoscope, which further directed me to Flam3 and then Oxidizer and finally Rampant Mac. What is all about? They are fantastic programs/resources that generate rendered pictures of strange attractors. For example, you can easily generate the following picture in a couple of minutes once you know how to use the software.

Generated by Oxidizer with simil3.lua script

I am not an artist at all and am just an elementary user of Oxidizer. You can find much better artworks from Choascope and Rampant Mac.

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Converting Source Codes to HTML

If you use Emacs, you can convert everything you see on the screen to an HTML file with almost exactly the same look and style. The package you need is htmlize.el. Some Emacs distributions, such as Carbon Emacs, package this module by default. This page shows an example. Really fantastic! It goes far beyond any similar methods I am aware of so far.

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