Museum of Generative Art · Hall 1

NOTHING HERE IS PAINTED

Every work in this museum is an algorithm executing right now, in your browser, on your electricity. Reload and the brushstrokes reshuffle. No two visitors have ever seen the same exhibition.

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Nº 01

Ten Thousand Commutes

Flow field, 2600 particles · sine-summed vector field · each particle walks the field until it dies, leaving its route in ink

Nº 02

Interference (for two frequencies in love)

Moiré study · two ring systems, slightly detuned · the pattern you see exists in neither — only between them

“The artist wrote forty lines of instructions and then left the room. What you are looking at is the instructions, obeying.”

— wall text, hall 1

Nº 03

Census of a Small Universe

Orbital mechanics · 140 bodies, one attractor · every trail is a life span; the bright ones burned faster

Nº 04

Topography of a Bad Night's Sleep

Marching contours · value-noise elevation, 18 isolines · the same map every insomniac already owns

Nº 05

Stained Glass for Atheists

Voronoi tessellation · 64 seeds, Manhattan distance · light through mathematics instead

Nº 06

Colour Field (after Rothko, by machine)

Layered translucent strata · 900 horizontal breaths of colour · the machine was asked to be gentle, and complied

EXIT THROUGH THE SOURCE CODE

Obsidian is a fictional museum. The gift shop is the view-source menu. Every algorithm on display is explained, with coordinates, one door down.

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