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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.

Ciphrd wrote an article explaining this artwork. In particular there is a link to this article by Sage Jenson that gives additional information on some technical details...

Do not hesitate to click on the links to open the artwork in full screen.