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The creatures were all in rainbow. That was the default, IOGraph's output palette. I never questioned it. It worked. Another quiet question kick in. "What if each creature had its own color?" Not just a default, but its natural color, the one it was always meant to have. I asked
The first creature made me believe there were more. I found two more in a row, and three more in the next day. Six creatures in two days. More followed in the days after, then I hit a wall. By the 12th creature, no matter how I modified the equations, nothing new came. Everything
I built a program to move my mouse one pixel so my screen wouldn't lock. That was over 15 years ago. This is what happened next. Years later, that one pixel made me curious, what if the mouse could trace a lemniscate precisely? That's the first time I stepped into parametric equa