It's a little cartoonish green beetle with yellowy eyes. You may not think it looks cute, but I think it looks cute.

#GenerativeArt interlude

Bug. Now with eyes.

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A dusty dark brass circle of dust with circular bosses in the middle over a trio of rectangles. The outer boss points to the right, like a turned starfleet sigil, towards a mushroom protrusion on the outermost circle. A fainter point on the left pokes just past the outer circle. It looks like a heavily eroded trace of some piece of technology. Colophon: the iteration functions are sphere(10%), diamond(40%) , fisheye(20%), and juliaScope(30%) composed with crumple(30%), rectangle(10%), curl(30%), and sphere(30%)

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Dusting off my old fractal flame code, with a larger set of functions and more efficient rendering

Kinda steampunky

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Rendering of a deJong attractor: a twisting smoky flood of green dots over an off-white background. There are several twists and loops, with well-defined edges.

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deJong attractors

(x[n+1],y[n+1]) = (sin(a y[n]) - cos(b x[n]), sin(c x[n]) - cos(d y[n])) for constants a,b,c,d

Mapping frequency-at-point to colours (log)

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A maze of green and purple showing multiple circles of branching, all crumpled up into a folded roughly circular area over a black canvas.

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Poisson disk sampling starting at a few seeds, with some bias in the search angles.

Connect parent and child points with graded colouring and size.

Then map the whole thing into a polygon (here a flattened knot) creating folds and stretches.

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A smattering of white palmate leaves in sweeps and clusters over a black background with grainy streaks of white. It looks like some ancient Daguerrotype of leaves in the rain.

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Leaves

Take a *really* wild tile shape
Spatter it about in swoops over the canvas
Iterate multiple transparent layers
Add some dusty streaks

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Celtic-style braids fill a square, with a criss-cross pattern down the center and folds along the sides. The loops and knots are in deep purple with silver edges over a field of green and gold.

#GenerativeArt interlude

Revival and reworking of an old project: Celtic braids

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A series of lines in different fonts. The text reads: Each usual empty talk tidily disbursed beneath every unsexy two-by-four. Some succeeding garrulousness greasily foundered. A grassless corrugation free-associated hence the large dribble. This jet-black monitoring program brailed through and through every superscript imperial Japanese morning glory. Some leaden acronym mutely foisted. Many a strained Young dramatically will turn one hermaphrodite. Many a pharmacological musicality psychologically moussed one counterinsurgency. Some scrumptious cough palely panicked against that counteractive alphabetic script. What emblematic symbol truculently dangled? Each titular exoneration unquestionably verified what waving? Many an abnormal target range hugger muggered long since what ditty? The longitudinal eyeball laudably plunged many a lead-coloured Brownshirt. Some searching natural language processor confessedly will duck that floppy kvetch. Each brut payback discursively will hop after what word?

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Spicy autocomplete aka colourless green ideas: an experiment in L-system poetry (editorial selection)

An elegy on LLMs in the time of fascism

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A series of multi-pointed stars with a little cartoon bee shoving its pointing proboscis into it. The unevolved pair at the top don't fit well at all. The bee in the middle pair has evolved a better fit, which becomes even better in the final pair, where the "flower" evolves from a nine-pointed star into a six-pointed one.

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#genuary29 Evolution

Co-evolution: the shape of the bee evolves to fit the star, the shape of the star evolves to fit the bee

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The cat-whisperer in his native habitat, covered with cats. Yellow tracks zigzag and curl down the the image, concentrating in dense clots where they encounter regions of contrast. Photographer: me

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#genuary27: A lifeform.

The worms eating through the pictures have a strong preference for contrasts.

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Triangles within triangles within triangles. The triangles are mostly shades of red, but following some looping shape they shift to blue as well. There is more subdivision in the area of the loops.

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#genuary26 Recursive grids

Follow the loops

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A glistening fungal mass expands across the whole of a blood-red canvas. It looks nasty, I tell ya. But also cool.

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#genuary25 Organic geometry

Unpleasantly moist circles, from the underside of that old log

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A cartoon octopus waves his tentacles at as and looks at us with large luminous eyes, partially seen through semi-transparent curls of deep red and purple. Mysterious. Spooky. (If he weren't so darned cute.)

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#genuary23: transparency

Emerging from the fog and spume

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A thing green line winds back and forth in tight curves, mapping out a ribbon that loops gently back and form down the page.

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#genuary20: one line

Falling loops

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A 16x16 array of glyphs of the numeral 5. As we descend down the grid, the outlines become more ragged and the orderly progression of colours (tans to greens) falls apart. A metaphor for our age.

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#genuary19: 16x16 and also #genuary16 order and disorder

The descent into madness

Number 5, number 5, number 5, ....

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Elephants grazing in a shallow stream in front of a camp set up for cocktail hour. A line meanders from the bright sunlight where the elephants graze into the dark shadows in the foreground. Photographer: me

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#genuary18: Unexpected path

A luminance gradient stagger

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The design in is gold, maroon, black, white, and a deep sea green. At the top and bottom and across the middle is a chain of loops alternating between large and small, with eight-pointed stars in the center of the larger loops. In between these rows of loops are triangles, some of which are broken down into subtriangles in two patterns: divided by midpoints and divided in the center. Similar patterns can be seen in Byzantine architecture in Italy.

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#genuary17: wallpaper

Going for a Byzantine vibe

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A close up photograph of some fungus on a log, rotting it away. The image itself is rotting away, falling into chaos as we close in on the bottom right corner. Entropy always wins in the end. Photographer: me Image hacker: me

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#genuary16 chaos and order

Entropy always wins in the end

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A scene, rather too dark, consisting of coloured dots. We see a shadow of some round object, and a large shadow of a monolith. There are other such objects also visible as well as a weird rippling shadow effect in the "sky". It's -- odd.

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#genuary15 Shadows

Playing with some Poisson sampling and volumetric lighting, not entirely successfully

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A cartoonish tan lightbulb stuffed with various glyphs in neutral colours (plant dyes).

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#genuary14 It just fits

It seemed like a good idea at the time

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A ragged mesh of green and blue crystal blocks, forming the shape of a woman at a podium.

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#genuary12: boxes
#genuary13: self-portrait

Portrait of the artist as a bunch of boxes: rotation of box and colour mapping based on luminance

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Woogly shapes in neutral tan shades reach towards each other from the two poles. Hands? Maple leaves? Spiders? It's cool, regardless.

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#genuary10 Polar

Not polar, but bipolar

The bipolar mapping of a series of parametric slices of a sum of sines and cosines

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A grid of triangles of various orientations and colours. There are triangular patches of darker triangles pointing down. There are several irregular flows of colours (from left to right): yellows, teams, greens, yellows, tans, and more yellows.

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#genuary9: Crazy automaton

Not that crazy. Rule30 over luminance, with some oddball adjustments to hue and saturation based on the luminance bit. Orientation of triangles as exercise for the viewer.

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A topographic maps with rather vibrant neon colours. On an "island", a network of black roads.

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#genuary8 City

Contour maps over a noise field with angle-constrained venation within the scope of one of the medium contours

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Contour bands in bright pinks and deep blues. The pinks come to a point in the center of a triangle in the top left; the blues fall into a curved pool in the bottom right. Colophon: signed distance functions mapped to colour bands

#GenerativeArt interlude

#genuary7 boolean

circle ^ ~triangle

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The word "Genuary" in red with some blue and green echoes.

#GenerativeArt interlude

#genuary2026 "Genuary"

SNES optimization to converge on the glyph shapes with a fairly high error bar

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Golden Newton fractal over polynomial (3+1i)sinh(z)^6 + (1i)sinh(z)^5 + (3-1i)sinh(z)^4 + (3i)sinh(z)^3 + sinh(z)^2 + (-2i)sinh(z) + (-2-1i) Dots of gold form curls and shimmers. It's cool and pretty, even lowres.

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#genuary2026 #genuary4 Lowres

Because a lowres Newton fractal is still a Newton fractal

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A Fibonacci spiral in blue tiles shaped like little manta rays. In the center of the spiral we get a fragment of actual tiling; towards the end of the spiral, things get more spread out.

#GenerativeArt interlude

#genuary2026 #genuary3 Fibonacci forever

Here we show the tiles from a random tiling (with wild tiling edges) that contain points along a Fibonacci spiral (or two)

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A black cat in a cat bowl, ears up looking towards us. It is rendered as slate blue hexagons in various sizes and brightnesses. Cat: Nyx Photographer and image manipulator: me

#Caturday

A little hexagonal photo manipulation

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A bowl of pomegranates rendered as a bunch of hexagons of different sizes in shades of grey. It's a bit of a cheat on the "one colour": same colour, different luminosities.

#GenerativeArt interlude

#genuary2026 day 1: One color, one shape

Hexy

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Stylized fish rendered as outlines of glowing white dots, cavort over black slashes (waves?) over a maroon background. Colophon: The bug is that the black parts and the white parts are the same fish, but the point-to-point mutation functions didn't get applied correctly (or consistently)

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The feast of seven fishes

This was a bug, but I love how it came out

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