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Ethereal microcosm (Ciphrd)
The art of animation...
I created this gallery to highlight some projects I own that have the properties to be animated (or can be triggered to get animated).
Ethereal microcosm is one of the best example of animated generative art. The first step decides on the ingredients and where they are disposed... and then it just keep evoluting for ever. You have to spend some time to see it evolves by itself...
In addition you can add some perturbation to the system to modify its normal evolution.
Left click : modify the substrate layer. Right click : continuous modification of the substrate layer. Pressing A will pull the particles towards the center. Pressing R will pull the particles outwards. Pressing M creates a random motion of the particles. Pressing F slightly mutates the agents. Pressing D, the left click enters in drawing mode. It becomes possible to leave permanent marks into the substrate of the simulation.
Toccata (msoriaro & andreasrau)
Toccata is a collaboration between Marcello Soria-Rodriguez and Andreas Rau. Minted on fxhash the 25/08/2022.
This artwork is about decay, how things evolve with time... Music accompanies the visual in its evolution. Sometimes glitchy and noisy, sometimes very accurate and precise, this artwork changes according to its decay timescale, one of the few features given with the generatives tokens.
Interactive Controls Click on the piece or press spacebar to start it (WebAudio requires user intervention for the music to start). Once the music has started, again click or press spacebar to play/pause. Press “s” to save a still at the current resolution Press “i” to automatically save a still every time the view changes. Press “i” again to disable it Press “r” to start recording a video at the current resolution, then “r” again to stop. Press “t” followed by “1” to force trail on, “2” to remove it, “0” to reset automatic behaviour. Press “v” followed by a number from 1 to 9 to set a fixed viewport, 0 to set automatic behaviour. Press “d” followed by a number from 1 to 9 to add that amount to the pixel density, 0 to reset to default. Press “k” followed by + or - to get closer / further. Taking a step back to see things in perspective.
A lot more informations and possibilities are given on the website dedicated to this artwork : toccata.
On toccata, a list of URL parameters allows to have access to other controls (in particular, add &reveal=1&fullscreen=1&date==2022-10-30 at the URL in OpenLive screen, change the date to explore the variations...)
Vortex(Gingey)
A collection of hundreds of thousands of points intertwining among each other like atoms to create a continuous real-time interactive vortex.
Do not hesitate to click on the links to open the artwork in full screen.
C-Scape (toxi)
C-SCAPE simulates a shared toroidal environment in which multiple cellular automata (CA) are evolving and influencing each other, forming short-lived symbioses and/or wiping each other out, only to be restored again later on. The automata are all operating on a single row of pixels at a time and therefore are only 1-dimensional. Yet, many of them also have a short term memory and can produce more complex structures/behaviors by utilizing their memory of previous cell states. Each individually minted version produces a unique system which evolves over time and never repeats.
The final selection of CA rules used in this piece is the result of many years of experimentation with 100,000s of different configurations and many (manual) review/pruning/cataloging sessions to encourage the minted editions to cover a interesting & balanced subset of the more than duodecillion (10^39) possible individual structures & textures (not including interactions and/or color variations)...
Viewing
The piece in best viewed in medium/high resolution landscape format. The horizontal resolution should be at the very least 800 pixels, preferably double that or higher. There's a max. pixel resolution limit of 4096 pixels in either direction, but CPU performance might suffer at these resolutions. On narrow/mobile portrait ratios the piece will be shown 90 degrees rotated and is scrolling sideways.