Genart
New generation of art. Algorithmically determined computer generated artwork and synthetic media (general term for any algorithmically-generated media), but artists can also make it using systems of chemistry, biology, mechanics and robotics, smart materials, manual randomization, mathematics, data mapping, symmetry, tiling, and more.
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Chromie Squiggle
Simple and easily identifiable, each squiggle embodies the soul of the Art Blocks platform. Consider each my personal signature as an artist, developer, and tinkerer. Public minting of the Chromie Squiggle is permanently paused. They are now reserved for manual distribution to collectors and community members over a longer period of time.
There are an almost infinite number of ways to wrap a string around a set of pegs. On the surface it may seem like a simple concept but prepare to be surprised and delighted at the variety of combinations the algorithm can produce. Each output from 'Ringers' is derived from a unique transaction hash and generated in Javascript in the browser. Feature variations include peg count, sizing, layout, wrap orientation, and a few colorful flourishes for good measure.
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Fidenza
Fidenza is by far my most versatile algorithm to date. Although the program stays focused on structured curves and blocks, the varieties of scale, organization, texture, and color usage it can employ create a wide array of generative possibilities.
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Archetype explores the use of repetition as a counterweight to unruly, random structures. As each single component look chaotic alone, the repetition brings along a sense of intentionality, ultimately resulting in a complex, yet satisfying expression.
As one of the first projects to launch in 2021, Cherniak’s Ringers collection of 1,000 NFTs has retained its historical value through critical acclaim and landmark sales. Known throughout the NFT ecosystem as one of the most beloved collections to come from the generative art platform Art Blocks Curated, owning a single Ringers NFT is commonly considered to be both a status symbol and a bet on the future of generative NFT art.
It is an elegant flower, beautiful, optimistic, stunning. But for a decade, our enemies have turned tulips against us. Today we we reclaim The Tulip for crypto, with one of the most remarkable pieces of art ever recorded on a blockchain. They are buying tulips" has been a very powerful meme against us. Today, I am proud to say "Yes, I did, in fact, buy a tulip." Perhaps the most important and powerful tulip in world history. I believe Fidenza #313 (The Tulip) is among the very very very most definitive Fidenzas. By extension, The Tulip is one of the most important pieces in Artblocks history and, further, in early on-chain generative art.
Time will tell if history agrees with me.
Fidenza #313 "Tulip"
Fidenza gallery curated by kos
Early on-chain genart
Autoglyphs
Autoglyphs are the first “on-chain” generative art on the Ethereum blockchain. They are a completely self-contained mechanism for the creation and ownership of an artwork.
Autoglyphs are an experiment in generative art, each one unique and created by code running on the Ethereum blockchain. The glyphs were originally created in 2019 by anyone who was willing to donate the creation fee of 0.2Ξ (around $35 at the time) to our chosen charity, 350.org. The creator of each glyph became the first owner of that glyph. After 512 glyphs were created, the generator shut itself off forever and the glyphs are only be available on the secondary market.
The Autoglyphs are a highly optimized generative algorithm capable of creating billions of unique artworks, wrapped inside an ERC-721 interface. While ERC-721 is the standard for “non-fungible tokens” (something that the CryptoPunks helped define), it is generally used to manage ownership of digital items stored elsewhere. The key difference with the Autoglyphs is that the art is inside the contract itself, it is literally “art on the blockchain.”
This becomes obvious if you examine any glyph creation transaction on the blockchain. The event data contains the full output of the generator, and hence the artwork itself. The actual code to generate the Autoglyphs is tiny and optimized to run efficiently on Ethereum nodes.
Randomly generated and fully on-chain squiggly lines, the first project in the Atlantes series. Only 100 pieces were created during the minting process. The on-chain generator has now been shut off forever so they are only available in the secondary market. Project was launched in October 2020.
Curve type refers to the type of bezier curve used in the on chain algorithm. All curve types had an equal probability of being created. Any auctioneer who called the end auction function for a given auction was credited as the creator of that Squiggly as they generated the seed to create the art for the auction winner and new owner.
256 Virtual Landmarks. CryptoCubes started with thoughts about 3D virtual spaces and the article I wrote when I first started creating them 2+ year ago. Like other collectible projects, cubes also have certain properties +Color +Volume +Shape.
However, it is not limited to just a collectible project. The final CryptoCube representation is a static gif. Only 256 CryptoCubes will exist in 3D metaverses. When a person owns a CryptoCube, they do not just get the static gif. They also get several other files such as 3D files to use in 3D lands. CryptoCubes have also different 2D visuals which are only available for it’s owners.
With the NFTs, we took an interest in CryptoPunks for the avatars and each avatar has became our “identity”, we took an interest in ArtBlocks for the generative art and each piece has became our “taste”, we took an interest in CryptoArt, each creation has became our “symbol”.
3D Metaverses are providing us faster and more efficient opportunities to think creatively.
Liquid identities, easily customizable places, virtual meeting points and so on. When we compare our virtual worlds to real life, CryptoCubes may have the potential to be a symbolic landmark building/statue for DAOs, Museums, Dapps, Decentralized Companies in 3D Lands.
Robbie Barrat is the first artist to ever mint on SuperRare. Barrat explores a variety of domains through machine learning and GANs (generative adversarial networks), and uses neural networks to “correct” existing paintings and adjust them to more align with the machine’s understanding of what the work looks like. (This is a different, though not completely unrelated, use of the word “generative”).
Robbie’s last mint was in August 2020 and he has sworn off NFTs due to environment concerns. In 2018 Christie’s held their annual Art and Tech Summit and invited SuperRare to add a gift to the gift bags of the 300+ attendees. SuperRare enlisted Robbie Barrat to create “AI Generated Nude Portrait #7” with 300 individual frames that could each be tokenized and given away to the attendees via gift cards placed in their gift bags.
Not understanding their historical significance, most attendees threw out their cards and did not claim their NFTs – hence the new name that emerged for these NFTs – “The Lost Robbies” (or TLRs for short). 38 TLRs have been claimed so far and it is believe that there are another 5-10 unscratched (and not lost) TLRs. The TLRs have been imbued with huge emotional value by the NFT collecting community due to the symbolism of “TradArt” rejecting NFTs initially.
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Larva Labs Mint Date: 04/08/2019
Han Mint Date: 12/03/2020
Robbie Barrat Mint Date: 07/17/2018
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Subscapes
A generative algorithm that draws the impression of a landscape from a multitude of possibilities. The unique seed from each token drives the parametric assortment of lines, colors, and forms into a constructed composition.
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Genesis
Genesis: Generative System. A block hash string is interpreted into a visual composition using a set of algorithmic rules. Compositions may contain grids, gradients, lines, shapes, and colors that harmonize with each other. Each mint is one of a kind and designed to stand-alone.
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Construction Token
Construction Token is one of three collections, along with Squiggles and Genesis that launched on November 27th 2020, the first day of ArtBlocks public mints. It is a permanent part of Art Blocks history. Rarity structure is straight forward in Construction Token. There are two ‘complementary’, 22 ‘light’, 27 ‘dark’ and 449 ‘standard’ variants. All pieces are similar aesthetically.
Nate Alex Mint Date: 10/02/2020
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Cryptoblots
Daïm Aggott-Hönsch Mint Date: 12/12/2020
A cryptoart collectible series to indulge the irrepressible human compulsion for pareidolia. This algorithmic homage to Hermann Rorschach’s inkblot perception test will help you externalize your inner world.
The 6529 Museum of Art has one of the largest and most valuable NFT collections in the world across all major NFT categories. The 6529 Museum has a particular focus on generative art where it has one of the top horizontal generative art collections in the world.
The museum also owns iconic pieces in each category – Summer.jpg, The Tulip and Punk 6529 are among the best known NFTs in their respective categories.
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Dynamic Slices
pxlq Mint Date: 12/12/2020
Elevated Deconstructions
luxpris Mint Date: 12/21/2021
Elevated Deconstructions (ED) is arguably the most controversial collection in Art Blocks Curated (ABC). With only 200 pieces, ED is the smallest ABC collection. As such it is the bottleneck to any horizontal sets in ABC. ED have always traded at high prices for this reason, while other ABC collectors do not think this is justifiable. The 6529 Museum has one of the largest ED collections in the world. We like the minimalist aesthetic and consider EDs to feel like relics from an ancient alien civilization.
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Singularity
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Hideki Tsukamoto Mint Date: 01/01/2021
Every Singularity is unique. Each form’s properties; Symmetry, Chaos, Mass, Force and Turbulence are driven by data extracted from the transaction hash.
Ignition
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ge1doot Mint Date: 01/08/2021
Launched into crypto-space for the first time, I present my genesis project, a limited series of interactive 3D structures, rotating endlessly from their self-gravitational force. Each token minted is the result of a complex set of rules, an algorithm that processes the transaction hash and generates a unique piece of crypto-art. Deep space, do you copy?
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Nimbuds
Bryan Brinkman Mint Date: 01/16/2021
Nimbuds are a fun and cute collection. Rarity ranking does not properly reflect trait hierarchy. The rare and prized traits are moustache, blush and blue background.
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Beervangeer Mint Date: 01/21/2021
HyperHash
HyperHash explores the possibilities of representing abstract data on Ethereum as intuitive color and geometry spaces. Focus of research are topics like geometry & symbolism. The artworks generate a futuristic, telepathic & symbolic language for Etherians.
Unigrids
Zeblocks Mint Date: 01/26/2021
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Unigrids are collectible digital art pieces 100% stored on the Ethereum blockchain. Each Unigrid consists of 421 individual Pure Javascript generated SVG grids, ensuring each Unigrid is entirely unique. Not only are Unigrids visually unique, but they also hide an ingenious animation and a generated beat to enhance your experience. Unigrids are an experiential piece of art, with a static image for printing, an animation, and companion beat – all generated and stored on the blockchain. You truly need to play around with Unigrids to understand the essence of them.
Dmitri Cherniak Mint Date: 01/31/2021
Spectron
Simon De Mai Mint Date: 02/13/2021
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27 Bit Digital
Kai Mint Date: 02/19/2021
The essence of all things digital is the bit. One or Zero. On or Off. Where digital becomes analog. This piece pays tribute to our digital legacy of 8-bit color and 7-segment LED displays– technological limitations which are mirrored in the constraints of putting art on the blockchain.
This edition of video artworks is the result of my research in video art from the 60s and 70s, especially early analog video synthesizers. These were heavy hardware machines capable of generating shapes and patterns from the ground up, with no external visual input. How could these machines generate such complexity by just manipulating electronic voltage? I decided to investigate this process. Although with modern technologies, Spectron shares the procedural logic with its analog ancestors.
Kjetil Golid Mint Date: 02/27/2021
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Alexis André Mint Date: 03/05/2021
720 Minutes
A real-time live interactive piece that also acts as a clock. 720 unique ways to show the current time, one per minute over twelve hours. Each clock will activate on its given minute, giving you a special moment every twelve hours to consider what one minute means to you.
Aerial View
daLenz Mint Date: 03/28/2021
My interpretation of Aerial View is a bird’s Eye View over a city block with illuminated/twisted buildings and light trails. It uses an on-chain stored algorithm to represent the generative artwork based on a hash. Each Aerial comes with different distances, building elevations, rotations and colors. Welcome to my genesis project and the first step on my on-chain journey!
Apparitions
Aaron Penne Mint Date: 03/17/2021
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“Apparitions” is an exploration of the space between algorithmic and organic. Each “Apparition” is unique to the transaction that originated it.
Inspirals
Radix Mint Date: 03/20/2021
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Escher-style tiling of a plane, gone wrong. Each image spins hash-driven colors, shapes, and symmetries into infinity. Fly through the spiral as it morphs between beauty and madness.
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Synapses
Chaosconstruct Mint Date: 04/05/2021
Synapses is a generative study on movement and texture. Thousands of particles flow in space leaving a trail of their journey. the movements are inspired by swarm behavior and flocking mechanism. The trails when left by each particle resembles the graphite or carbon smudges on the white canvas. The particles follow either single or multiple vectors to create these intricate details.
These cute companions live 100% on-chain where their bytes are cleverly stored in a scalable vector format. Built with quality components and complex algorithms, each Algobot is issued with a unique serial number and a NIFTY license which permits them to help out on any commercial projects where you might require their assistance.
Elementals is inspired by physical printmaking techniques and early Bauhaus principles. It starts with a few basic coloured shapes and arranges them in varying frequencies, sizes, and positions based on a unique transaction hash. Multiple overlaid variable grids allow for myriad layouts and opportunities for colour interaction.
Algobots
Stina Jones Mint Date: 06/04/2021
Elementals
Michael Connolly Mint Date: 04/16/2021
Watercolor Dreams
NumbersInMotion Mint Date: 04/30/21
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Watercolor Dreams is an exploration in simulation, a meditation on traditional techniques in watercolor, and an ode to serendipity. Where will this curve end? When will this shade fade? How will the movement come alive? Sit back, relax, and watch the colors wash over the canvas.
Translucent color bubbles playfully mix and morph to create organic and ephemeral blobby forms.
Memories define us. Made of countless fragments, they are an ever-changing snapshot of our past. Frammenti is a digital explosion of life, inspired by our most personal treasures.
AlgoRhythms is a collection of generative audio-visual data sculptures. Each unique hash drives the combination of colors, patterns and musical scales into a music box.
This project is dedicated to Art Blocks. Each panel on the block is a small generative art piece with several random parameters that lives its own life, at the same time being part of the composition. This symbolizes generative artists united by the common idea of ArtBlocks.
CENTURY is my homage to paintings and drawings from the twentieth century and the countless hours I’ve spent looking at them. The references span the origins of concrete and non-objective art to color-field painting and minimalism.
Dreams is an exploration of uneven subdivision. It focuses on the interaction between uniform and crooked lines, and the complex structures that can emerge from simple rules. Each iteration of Dreams is unique, with characteristics determined by the hash created at the moment of transaction.
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Jason Ting Mint Date: 05/07/2021
Stefano Contiero Mint Date: 05/21/2021
Han x Nicolas Daniel Mint Date: 05/14/2022
Shvembldr Mint Date: 05/28/2021
Casey REAS Mint Date: 05/25/2021
Joshua Bagley Mint Date: 06/18/2021
Bubble Blobby
Frammenti
Algorhythms
The Blocks of Art
Century
Dreams
AB Curated Series 4
Glitch Crystal Monsters
Endless Nameless
Pigments
phase
Scribbled Boundaries
Trossets
Geometry Runners
Fragments of an Infinite Field
Skulptuur
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Alida Sun Mint Date: 07/23/2021
Rafaël Rozendaal Mint Date: 07/30/2021
Rafaël Rozendaal Mint Date: 07/30/2021
Loren Bednar Mint Date: 20/08/2021
William Tan Mint Date: 08/17/2021
Anna Carreras Mint Date: 09/03/2021
Rich Lord Mint Date: 08/27/2021
Monica Rizzolli Mint Date: 22/02/2022
Piter Pasma Mint Date: 09/27/2021
A synthesis of over 777 days of generative artmaking, motion as survival, and coding as transformative ritual. Sky gardens of trustless techno-leviathans crystallize, entangle, and play between dimensions online and AFK, generating new forms altogether. I channel these speculative phenomena to highlight the fluid, transformative possibilities of structures perceived as rigid and immutable.
Endless Nameless is an exploration of composition. We start with a square. The square is divided into sections. The sections are filled with color pairs. Sometimes all colors are used. Sometimes fewer colors are used.
Pigments is an exploration of color and spatial distortion. Each instance is an abstract representation aimed at evoking a micro or macro-environment; from unknown substances, or oil in a canvas, to nebular formations. The pieces are animated, meant to be experienced live. If this proves to be too computationally intensive, or if you prefer a static view, feel free to press the spacebar.
This project is a visual representation of realities that are out of phase. Interference patterns, colorful echoes, and emerging secrets are explored. Mathematical functions produce constant motion, but rarely, a peaceful scene resolves within the chaos.
Scribbles on Scribbles on Scribbles. This series is an exploration of chaos and order; how seemingly random movements in the minute scale can be more than just meets the eye if you look at the grander perspective. Simple guiding rules transfigure irregular movements into minimal beauty. Life, as we know it, can be expressed in a similar fashion: our decisions, unexpected occurrences, and even our place in the Universe — while it may seem void of any meaning — may not just be a mere coincidence, it is collectively purposeful and beautiful.
Trossets explores the emergence of diversity. Combining twelve construction blocks the system generates endless patterns with a unique result each iteration. Trossets /trusɛts/ means parts, blocks, pieces and it’s my particular homage to a classical generative system, the multi-scale Truchet tiles. The systems plays an interlocking blocks game creating unexpected drawings with colors borrowed from the Mediterranean.
The starting gun goes, and it’s happening. Packs of racers, proudly sporting their team colors, are competing in the race of their lives. Some are going for it. Others can’t really be bothered. But you know this is where the action is at. Absolute drama around every corner. Who will be victorious, and who will stumble.
“Fragments of an infinite field” is a compositional system in which an idealized plant species is generated and arranged in a potentially infinite field of foliage. The main environmental parameter of the composition is the determination of a season of the year.
An exploration in generating forms in 3-dimensional space. This exclusive set of sculptures has been carved from a sea of infinite possibilities, much like a sculptor creates a singular reality from the potential in a block of stone. The shapes are illuminated by a variety of complex virtual lighting environments and yet the piece retains algorithmic minimalism with the code reduced to its pure essence — 6370 bytes.
AB Curated Series 5
Edifice
Asemica
Autology
Bent
Gazers
Vortex
Jiometory No Compute
Ben Kovach Mint Date: 11/08/2021
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Edelman et al. Mint Date: 11/15/2021
steganon Mint Date: 11/22/2021
ippsketch Mint Date: 11/29/2021
Matt Kane Mint Date: 12/06/2021
Matt Kane Mint Date: 12/06/2021
Samsy Mint Date: 12/20/2021
“Edifice” is a series of 976 massive, deteriorating structures built on strange terrain. It is an exploration of buildings being conceptualized, constructed, and eroded away under a wide variety of conditions. Edifice’s outputs run the gamut between minimal and maximal, with some showing few large, static blocks of color, and others many small, highly textured and warped shapes.
Abstract typographic elements slide together to create new characters. In some compositions, a single character is featured. In others, characters string together to form words and sentences, which the algorithm shapes into often-familiar layouts.
Is code art? Autology is a study of not only how we interpret art, but also how art can interpret itself. Each piece has its source code embedded imperceptibly within the image itself. Hence the source code is literally part of the artwork. With a little sleuthing, one can derive the source code from the image and vice versa in infinite recursion.
Lines are bent and shaded. There are no wrong turns.
Since the dawn of humanity, the Moon’s phases have fascinated humans, influencing any number of activities on Earth including ocean tides, seasons, harvests, migrations, hunting, crime, sleeping, sex, and has inspired countless works of art. The first lunar calendar, dated to 32,000 BC was discovered, drawn on animal bone in caves. It’s believed hunters during the last Ice Age used these portable lunar calendars to anticipate the behavior of different animals like Mammoths.
The phenomena of the spiral is located throughout the natural world, found in everything from nautili and galaxies, to fractals and sacred geometries. Much like the gravitational pull of patterns in the universe, Jen Stark’s series of generative vortexes pays homage to the intricate systems present in our daily lives. Drawing upon the aesthetic practice of her signature paper sculptures, Stark’s hand-cut techniques are translated to adapt and evolve within the digital realm through code, brought to life through harmonic sine waves.
Random and anarchy, chaos and structurality. Jiometory No Compute is a living motion experimental study, a contemplative geometry organism that lives now and forever. Each individual units movement contributes and flows into a generative path for a greater purpose. Together they try to achieve a symbiosis, although an « ideal » computer program is very relative. Exploring domains of definitions and warping an input data-set leads to unexpected behaviors, sometimes surprising, often fascinating.
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Chimera
Cosmic Reef
Screens
Para Bellum
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mpkoz Mint Date: 02/11/2021
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Thomas Lin Pedersen Mint Date: 2/1/2022
Matty Mariansky Mint Date: 02/08/2022
Marcelo Soria-Rodríguez Mint Date: 02/15/2022
Chimera is a mutation, its genetics a merging of past and present. New creative mediums almost always ingest those that came before. Pictograms and hieroglyphics turned into paintings, which eventually became moving images and photo-real graphics.
A particular order can be found in deepest space, in our oceans and forests, and in all living things, including ourselves – a unified code producing endless variation. Gravity and cosmic winds shape star-forming nebulas into coral-like forms. Flowers self-organize in radial symmetry with signals hidden from the human eye. Light bends time as events unfold in our own lives.
Screens have been at the heart of art mass production and mass consumption for ages. From screen printing techniques, first developed in China around 1000AD and later popularized in western art culture by e.g. Andy Warhol, to the screens on our devices used to consume both digital art as well as most traditional art we experience in our life.
Para Bellum(*) is about the conflict of emotion and gut instinct versus logic and reason. Emotions are portrayed by color fields; logic is illustrated by words. These two forces are fighting for dominance over the canvas. Under the hood, Para Bellum utilizes a thin language engine that was trained by reading dozens of books about rebellion and anarchy to generate (mostly) non-existent English phrases.
Our lives are scattered across several time scales, and the meaning of every event that takes place depends on the time scale that we choose to define & observe them from. Yet we fail to fully comprehend this in our daily errands. Entretiempos is an artwork that reflects on this.
Other Generative Art
Incomplete Control
Meridian
Tyler Hobbs Mint Date: 12/09/2021
Matt DesLauriers Mint Date: 09/17/2021
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Memories of Qilin
Emily Xie Mint Date: 03/21/2022
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Memories of Qilin is inspired by traditional East Asian art. It channels the sense of movement and fluidity found in classical Chinese brushwork, while drawing from the colors, patterns, and forms of ukiyo-e woodblock prints.
The series explores elements of folklore, evoking the mythological imagery of dragons, phoenixes, flowers, and mountains. The title references a fabled chimerical beast found throughout East Asian mythology (while the qilin is its Chinese name, it is also known in Korea as the girin and Japan as the kirin) that represents prosperity and luck.
Viewers are invited to interpret elusive forms that verge on representation. As with the stories passed on through generations, each piece is imagined, organic, and ever-in-flux.
Ancient Courses of Fictional Rivers
Robert Hodgin Mint Date: 03/29/2022
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Ancient Courses is a generative experience that explores the aesthetics of meandering rivers and the settlements that form on their banks. The design is graphic and cartographic with bold color palettes rendered against map iconography and line sensibility. From the river banks, roads stretch across the landscape: sometimes a single access road, other times sprawling towns. The river meandering is simulated via a custom algorithm which closely models the real world process.
Press 'r' to reset the simulation. Press 's' to save an image to disk. Press 'h' to re-run the simulation at print res. This is significantly slower than the default screen res version. The progress bar at the bottom of the screen shows how long before the print-res image is automatically saved to disk.
Incomplete Control is an extraordinary powerhouse of a collection from Tyler Hobbs, the creator of Fidenza. The goal of the collection is to show a more organic, analog output. The more you look at the details of Incomplete Controls, the more interesting they become. Incomplete Controls are a small collection (100 outputs) with no traits or rarity.
Stratified landforms constructed from many small strokes of colour. The hash of each token describes a coordinate within a multidimensional generative space, locating a unique composition that lies along one of many possible longitudes.
Curated by Museum6529 gallery by @kkostya