The following is a few images that I used some generative AI models to replace and then use a hashing algorithm that would generate a pen plotter path.

The following project is inspired by exploring what lasers and long exposure photography.

Start

I used openSCAD to first create a few functions that will give me the raw materials that I needed to start with a flexible “pegboard” that can be used to distribute mirrors in a specific manner.

I bought some adhesive mirrors off of Amazon for $10 as a start. I then created the paddles on which I adhered the mirrors and then created an OpenSCAD function that would provide me the board in which I placed the mirrors. With that created, I started with a basic array of mirrors to see what can be done with them.

Once building the array, I 3D printed the designs on a Bambu X1 and then have th

2023 - Built with Javascript

The original site is here

I’ve been collecting various quotes for many years. One of my favorite genres has been quotes about creativity. In this project I had scraped Good Reads and looked for quotes that had anything to do with art and creativity. Stored them in a Postgres table. Created an API using ValTown from where I am using it to pass through when calling against the postgres instance. Right now it simply is a little tool to ponder on quotes.

I also use this dataset from which I pull out the quotes I use on the newsletter as well.

The following is a little test module I was building in order to take some time and understand the OpenFrameworks APIs when it came to images.

This was a slightly different year as I used Javascript for the first time… this was using all P5 for this work just to get a better hang of Javascript and all the various interesting ways it can be used.

• Genuary 2023 - Day 1 - Endless Loop
• Genuary 2023 - Day 2 - Made in 10 Minutes
• Genuary 2023 - Day 3 - Glitch Art
• Genuary 2023 - Day 4 - Intersections
• Genuary 2023 - Day 5 - Debug View
• Genuary 2023 - Day 7 - Favorite Album / Movie Palette
• Genuary 2023 - Day 8 - SDF
• Genuary 2023 - Day 9 - Plants
• Genuary 2023 - Day 11 - Supremism
• Genuary 2023 - Day 14 - Aesemic
• Genuary 2023 - Day 15 - Sine Waves
• Genuary 2023 - Day 16 - Reflection of a reflection
• Genuary 2023 - Day 12 - Tesselation
• Genuary 2023 - Day 13 - Learning Something New
• Genuary 2023 - Day 17 - The Grid Inside A Grid Inside A Grid
• Genuary 2023 - Day 18 - Definitely not a grid
• Genuary 2023 - Day 19 - Black and White
• Genuary 2023 - Day 20 - Art Deco
• Genuary 2023 - Day 21 - Persian Rug
• Genuary 2023 - Day 23 - More Moire
• Genuary 2023 - Day 22 - Shadows
• Genuary 2023 - Day 25 - Yayoi Kusama
• Genuary 2023 - Day 26 - My kid could have made it
• Genuary 2023 - Day 27 - In the style of Hilma Af Klint
• Genuary 2023 - Day 28 - Generative Poetry
• Genuary 2023 - Day 30 - Minimalism

Observable Notebook

Purpose:

To blend biology with the arts as a way to teach simple concepts about DNA sequences and explore my curiosity to create a primitive synthetic system.

This has been an interest of mine for a while. I’ve started on this but there is yet much to be done and a continuation of a process that I’d like to refine in the next year or so.

I used OpenSCAD and found that it was quite easy to make some of these images. I didn’t realize how easy this was going to be and I have been daunted by the task of 3D modelling. However I’ve been taking alot of time to mess with Blender and Houdini to really get a sense on what they can do. This has allowed me to really understnad the terminology that is used in these programs and thus I’ve been able to really put that knowledge to work.

Down To Earth (2023)

I am writing this on 3/3/2023 at around 1:20 PM while the great winds and potential tornados in Middle Tennessee. It just seemed right to put it out there given the circumstances.

“Down On Earth and To The Heavens” is a generative reflective collection as a depiction of the feelings I have when I think on the subject of living and longevity.

The longer we live, the more I just realize that the bustle of life is but noise. Noise that causes grief, anxiety, and the other drama that comes with it. Yet when we get a 10,000 ft view, we realize we are in the hands of nature.

There are a few elements that have been added in here that in mind really make me think of these great forces of nature.

#generative #nature #generativeart #noise

The following work has been a bit of a reflection and getting away from the screen for a little bit. When working on a masters, working a full time job and then enjoying program. There becomes a point I need to get away from the work and take some time to do something more craftsmanlike.

Calligraphy has been a practice of mine for many of years. You will find that there are a number of different forms that are built into each of the images. I’ll update with better images but for right now these are the ones that I have.

Following https://observablehq.com/d/10397b6df11b187f

I’ve used this in a few of my newsletters.

Can see the book here

Lined Up Imperfectly

The following images was understanding

Concept

The idea behind these pieces was me sorting out my own thoughts about NFTs and art. There is so much to be said when money is a contributing factor. It is alluring and it is nice to know that individuals have an interest in the work that you do. But specifically they are interested in the long term effects that you provide with owning a piece of the art that you are collecting.

I think I saw that the drive to make.. fueled by the money was something I needed to reconcile. I love the process of creating and when it started to merge at becoming so upset of not curated status on a project I was working on, well I ended up realizing I needed to step back and reconsider what it means.

I am a free market type of person, but I also believe that greed and disatisfaction provide evidence that rationality is not always part of the equation. And it was not something I really needed to understand what I am participating.

Like making a living is great, making a living with disposable income is even better.

Yet when we start continuing to want everything and having the ability to really live a modest but content life.. Do I need to really take part?

Pixel Line

What I am about to write here is something that will bring some information about the project.

Primitive Prophesy

These were originally added to the Tezos network in 2021 as my first curated long-form project. They can be found on Objkt

What I am about to write here is something that will bring some information about the project.

The set of images are part of the exploration of the primitive elements, sticks and earth tones. I wanted to explore how simplicity can bring both chaos and order to the same generative agent that is creating these images. You can find more on Twitter @generatecoll or Instagram @generate.collective (2021)

Just a test

What I am about to write here is something that will bring some information about the project.

What I just love about this is the graininess added to create certain images to be more blurry. This can be made with shaders, but there is something beautiful when using simply “pixels” to paint certain elements of the image. Computationally more expensive?

Yes. But it does have to beg the question, does efficiency always inquire something beyond the work that has been done here.

I had been curious what I would get out of the model if I were to feed it The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot.

This isn’t the whole thing, but I used the line:

And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s

As the input for this particular piece.

  I. The Burial of the Dead

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch. And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s, My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled, And I was frightened. He said, Marie, Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. In the mountains, there you feel free. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

This collection, found at fxhash, is an artistic exploration marrying the gentle fluidity of organic textures with the whimsical randomness of color pencil simulations. Each piece in the series is a testament to the unpredictable beauty of celestial phenomena, crafted through a sophisticated algorithm that offers over 380,000 unique combinations, ensuring that every orientation of the artwork remains distinct and engaging.

Drawing inspiration from a childhood filled with starlit imaginations and celestial wonder, I recall moments spent capturing the night sky through my mother’s cherished Minolta. Those early years, punctuated by visits to the planetarium, nurtured a fascination with the stars — not just as distant balls of gas, but as symbols capturing the human spirit’s boundless curiosity. This fascination extends to the stars’ periodicity, echoing a cosmic order and continuity amidst the apparent chaos of the universe, an element subtly woven into each artwork’s design.

Specific for the NFTs

Experience the artwork interactively:

Atom Dynamics: Activate the ‘atoms’ to witness a pulsating dance, where these elemental particles fluctuate from near invisibility to a commanding presence, depending on the interval settings. This feature requires careful observation to appreciate the varying degrees of visibility among the atoms. Controls: ’s’ to save a snapshot of the current state ‘a’ to activate or deactivate the atom feature Designed to be fluid in its presentation, the piece naturally adapts to different resolutions, with its default being a crisp 1000x1000. This adaptability is not just a technical feature but an artistic choice, encouraging viewers to experiment with various sizes, each offering a unique window into this cosmic dance of colors and shapes.

One of the things about light, is that it spreads and has this interesting spread over a specific spread of time. What this does is really the opportunity

This was originally written up here.. here is the original repo on my Github

I always thought this experiment was incredibly interesting. It was using something that I hadn’t even thought about this until I was an app on the phone before the Apple Watch.

So I wanted to see if I could pull out the images, analyze the information so that I could determine the peaks in the Red color channel and pull out some of the information that could be used.

Originally written in 2014 on Medium

Believing that something is crap, is creative indigestion. It inhibits your power to create, sucks your soul’s happiness and breeds stress and rejection. It becomes a waste of time, rather than further develop. We discontinue this crap that we have mistaken as no creativity. This is a perception that needs to be overcome and dealt with. But how do you overcome?

1. Don’t Limit your Creativity

As people we generally want to be like the Jones. This is inherent; we deem it necessary to survive in the vivacious world of competition. But,

Competition should drive us, rather than control us.

For keeping up will limit us to their best. And limits to creativity should never keep us from trying to create and letting our minds be wild. Honestly our best should be our passion to want to develop. A passion to push the envelope and find new ways of defining and redefining what we create.

2. Be OK with something not yet good enough.

As a perfectionist, I find myself not creating and worrying about the not good enough; this inhibits further growth of any project. So at times, it is just a good idea of putting it out there, even when it isn’t really good enough. But that is the beauty about trying again.

Creativity is not a final grade

Don’t give up when there is confrontation or indifference to your current good enough.

3. Let it Flow

Creativity is a partnership; it means we use our ideas in our passions and further test them out. As we test and try, and spend time with them; they become part of us. Just like a 6th sense it starts to hinge on and becomes a passionate limb. In accepting that, we start to instinctively just be creative rather than “try to be” creative.

4. Innovate, Breakdown and Innovate More

Try, try and try again.

Don’t like it, retry what you did with a different method. Scrape the other and try again, it’s only through a continual trying, testing and reproducing to produce that we find new ways of doing. For as we do, we unearth questions that we might be able to answer.

5. Perfect never comes.

Simple enough, even though I have wished it to be true; we will never find the perfect. So go with what you have and improve.