Animations: From Biology to JavaScript! 🦠

The Cluster Growth Animation is a great example of an animation that mimics biological processes instead of following the more common physics-based path.

Hi everybody - I recently spent some time creating a cluster growth animation, and it looks as follows (see live version + deconstruction):

This was a fun animation to create for several reasons. One reason was that it gave me a break from writing about algorithms, but the biggest reason was that it gave me an excuse to play with creating a retro-themed …