For Living Art and Nature of Code, I am working on a simulation of the Northern Lights with Anne Hong for an art piece (introduced in this post) by my father, Ron Sears. I have mocked up software using Java and the Processing libraries to start experimenting with algorithms to control the light. The applet is based upon a simulation of 32 fixed color high-output LEDs arranged on 4 PCBs that will be mounted behind a large plexiglass lens inside a frosted streetlight globe (simulated with a gaussian blur in the applet), and uses a combination of trig functions with varying relative phase to approximate the dancing effect of the Northern Lights.