Kaleidoscopic pattern generator in Jitter

I've been playing with jitter a lot lately and I thought it would be fun to share one of my favorite patches and see if any other visual programming lovers would like to do the same.

The patch I'm attaching is a sort of kaleidoscope pattern generator, which takes an image (video or picture file, or webcam data), and rotates it 3-6 fold in a circle around itself, pasting each rotation together to get a big bright stacked composite image. I threw in a second mode where that image is just reflected four ways. It's pretty simple, the core of it is just a bunch of jit.rota's. I'd been planning something like this for a while and I was completely stuck. Then one night I was chain smoking spliffs listening to Oversteps and it just clicked. I've been really happy with the output, you can get entertaining results from pretty much anything. Just playing around with the webcam through it can be loads of fun.

Here are some screenshots. if you like them, feel free to download the patch and try it out:

To use it just go into presentation mode, click setup, then choose a file to load or just click the webcam button, and switch "mode" from 0 to 1 or 2. Click and drag on the image to change the center point of the rotations. Changing the sliders zooms on the rotas, which has a pretty intuitive effect. There's also an LFO which you can have controlling either zoom parameter. For Mode 2 you can change the angle of rotation between the four sections, and also have that automated.

I would love to see anyone else's jitter work or other visual coding. Screenshots, patches, or whatever. I fuckin love this stuff.

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I would rather have complete control over making fractals in Photoshop.. seems a lot more gratifying and limitless

that last one is really appealing