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Here are some of my generative pieces that I made a while ago. I spent a lot of time writing the code that would produce these images, they're very intentional, and they're nothing like what any "AI" image generator would spit out.
Generative art is not the same as “AI” generated slop. Learn the fucking difference.
Artists have been using various generative techniques for decades to produce some really cool work and it does a huge disservice to throw us all in with this soulless uncreative and frankly anti-art bullshit.
pluto (seed: 3149259309)
full quality:
https://noisemakerbot.gallery/2025/03/31/09-01-40-859404.png
More play with this evolving pattern for today's drawing.
Here's an in-progress shot.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/123418451 https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-March-2025-N4N51BCM70
This is still a CMY Delaunay Triangles on Waves but with a slightly distorted shading giving it a shaggy texture.
CMY on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.
Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/cmy-delaunay-triangles-on-waves/
For today's #inkyDays drawing, I took yesterday's pattern and took it in a more complicated direction. I also finished this piece I've been working on.
Here's an in-progress shot.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/123418451 https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-March-2025-N4N51BCM70
This CMY Delaunay Triangles on Waves looks like colorful facets of gemstones arranged and tightly packed together.
CMY on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.
Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/cmy-delaunay-triangles-on-waves/
For anyone interested: Here's an ambiguous set of instructions (in the spirit of Sol leWitt or https://conditionaldesign.org) for (re)creating a simplified version of the infinitely evolving De/Frag piece (see beginning of this thread).
Preparations:
0) You may use any suitable medium.
1) Create a pixel-based canvas of arbitrary dimensions.
2) Create a palette of random choice of 4 colors, plus black and white.
Repeated steps:
3) Choose two random colors from the palette, giving black or white priority.
4) Using the chosen colors, create a random pixel pattern in one of four sizes (e.g. using percentages of the longest side of the canvas as pattern size, e.g. 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, or 4x4, 8x8, 16x16 pixels...)
5) Choose a random pixel position on the canvas and a random color tolerance.
6) Perform the flood fill algorithm[1] from the chosen start position, selecting all connected pixels within the chosen tolerance.
7) Apply the new pattern (created in step 4) to the pixels selected in step 6, in an order and speed of your choosing.
8) Repeat from step 3
[1] The Flood Fill algorithm is described here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_fill
Super pleased to announce that a custom version of De/Frag (2021) will be on display at ZKM Karlsruhe as part of their new milestone show "The Story That Never Ends" from next Saturday, April 5 until September 20. The exhibition features approx. 100 works from their collection of 12,000 works of the past 70 years. It's a true honor to be part of it!
https://zkm.de/de/2025/04/the-story-that-never-ends
Unlike the original release, which was constrained to only 640x640 pixels, this new custom version runs at 1080x1920 resolution on a large 75" screen, and will continuously evolve over the course of the next 5½ months, i.e. for the entire duration of the exhibition.
De/Frag is a homage and exploration of the classic flood fill algorithm, combined with semi-randomly generated bit/fill patterns, multiple iteration & sorting strategies, creating an endlessly changing tapestry of complex pixel textures and tectonics, whilst revealing the inner workings of the intentionally slowed down core algorithm. It also is an exercise in algorithmic purity, attempting to devise a minimalist generative system producing maximalist variation (relative to its setup).
The downscaled 30 second time lapse shows snapshots of a 20 minute time window, with one frame taken every 5 seconds... In reality, all transitions are continuous and mesmerizing to watch unfold in unexpected way (something the time lapse cannot do justice).
@jplebreton After very unpleasant, in-person occasions of showing my work, I've changed all of my public facing 'statements' at in-person events
I now use the word "Procedural" instead of "Generative". And it works. People get it.
I'm not entirely giving up. I still use the tag #GenerativeArt when posting online.
But in person, I'd rather talk with folks about how atomic bonding angles influences much of my work than trying to de-cultify them.
We'll get the word back, eventually.
Just added one of my stickers, created from one of my hand-drawn pieces, to my shop. This is also one of the options for my #StickersAndStamps project :)
