Question

I’m drawing some generative shapes in processing. Just a couple bezier curvers which have points that are controlled by points that exert a gravity on them.

The problem is that my lines are forming artifacts, they aren’t crisp and smooth. Is this just a matter of the size of my drawing? Any help would be appreciated, I’ve uploaded an example image where you can see some weird stuff going on with the lines.

Answer 1

That looks pretty cool.
If you want crisper lines you should call the smooth() function once in setup(). I see in Processing 2.0+ you can also control the amount of smoothness to a certain degree.

I’m not 100% sure what you mean by

lines are forming artifacts

but unless it’s the lines’ antialiasing which smooth() would fix,
then that would be the Moiré pattern.