Edition of 10 including a fine art giclée print on Hahnemühle Baryta, size 30x30cm
Excerpt of: DAI - distributed autonomous interaction
This is a constantly changing artwork. Keep in mind that each time you reload your iteration or resize the canvas, even though your preferred parameters stay the same, the appearance of the artwork changes!
If you know my series ZEITSTRUDEL you might recognise similarities. ZEITSTRUDEL is about capturing movement patterns. Everything is actively or passively moved dynamics and interaction. Everything follows rules. Crawling insects, a flock of bird or fish, leaves on the surface of water, grass in the wind.
DAI simulates and extends those movement patterns with autonomous interacting Dots.
Two visual elements produce different outcomes like the Insect movement pattern I mentioned above; Gravity; traces of a flock birds or fish; String art; squishy glitches; wild chaos
1. The Dots themselves draw traces of their Path
2. Lines between the Dots: I bet you did some string art back in elementary school :)
How does it work:
A random number of Dots with a random amount of movement are placed on the canvas. They sense Dots in a given radius. They attract or repel each other and they flock together, or not. They draw their movement path and/or their connection to neighbouring Dots. Doing all that they paint a more or less beautiful, chaotic, colourful picture.
You will mint an iteration based on a given set of parameters. Your mint will always have that set of parameters. However the movement and so the drawing is completely random. Every time you load your minted iteration it will look different. The longer you run an iteration the more it gets painted over and over and over (at least in most cases)
Some iterations build up with high speed. Some require patience because they build up slowly. Some might even get to a halt and don’t develop any further. Some are delicate, some are bold. Some Dots escape beyond their set borders, most don’t. Some colors are piercing your eyes, some shine subtly.
You have some keyboard functionality:
Switch modes
[1] reset and show only Lines
[2] reset and show only Path
[3] show Lines and Path, don’t reset
[r] reset current drawing without reloading
[x] toggle flocking on / off (If a piece got stuck and nothing is moving anymore, try to toggle flocking. Often it will kick some Dots out of its’ gravity trap.)
[p] pause for admiration
[s] save the current screen as png ATTENTION! The current image will reset!
(since DAI is dynamic you can only save your current screen resolution. Redrawing in higher resolutions would create different results)
[Right arrow] - cycle through the color palette to set different background colors - the current drawing resets
Have fun exploring DAI
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Made with p5.js
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March 2023
by M.Schulte
studiomartin
