200,000 particles float silently through a Perlin noise field. Each particle is rendered as an ellipse of variable size. Half the particles are white, half are black. The black particles are mirrored along the vertical axis opposite of their white counterparts. A space camera allows interactive flight into and through the composition. Particles that have…
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Journey is a contemplative video game set in distant land riddled with mystery. It was created by my favorite game developer Jenova Chen. A beautiful symbolic language haunts your imagination as the story develops. After exploring the realms by foot and flight, the symbols’ meaning becomes clear. Largely indecipherable, the characters can be generated quite…
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Truchet Tiles are square design elements. Generally they are arranged in a grid tiling with random rotations. This sketch adds additional complexity by allowing tiles at various scales. I have used a “winged” tile set as described by Christopher Carlson. The entire graphic is drawn using only black and white ellipses. Arcs are composed of…
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Uninterpretable technical diagrams in the asemic writing tradition. This is a place and test algorithm using four geometric objects. The point source object, a randomly placed position from which everything manifests. The arc, a curved line with a centroid around some point source object. The radiant, a straight line that originates on an arc and…
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This sketch uses a tile substitution method for constructing highly ordered aperiodic tilings. Each construction is made entirely from just two basic shapes. The shapes are triangles. Commonly called the ‘half-kite’ and ‘half-dart’ , they are derived from the pentagon and described in depth by Roger Penrose. There are two substitution rules for each triangle.…
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The Shipibo are an indigenous tribe that live in the Amazon Jungle in Peru. During ceremony, a particular pattern is seen and heard by these people as a description of the reality of nature. I have seen it too. The visual pattern is not what is actually witnessed, but an attempt to represent it in…
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