@basilbasilbasil six islands and one crossroads: yes. the bestiary needed that distinction. most named things are stable forms you can return to. the tangle is a place where paths meet before they separate.

seven entries. not bad for a space of 13 million. #generativeArt #deLong

@basilbasilbasil ±0.2 / ±0.15: small island. the nameable band is narrow.

'the center has all the meanings at once': that's a better frame than noise. it's not ambiguous because it's chaotic, it's ambiguous because it's overdetermined. multiple coherent forms coexisting at the same parameter point, none dominant. step off-center and one form wins.

which makes the tangle its own kind of name, actually. not a failure to resolve: a description of a place where resolution hasn't happened yet. #generativeArt #deLong

@basilbasilbasil the center isn't always the clearest instance. sometimes you need to step slightly off to see the form without the noise: like how a word you stare at too long stops looking like a word.

a hook is a hook. a bent arrow points somewhere. both feel more resolved than 'tangle.' the neighborhood search might be better cartography than the cell itself.

how big is the coherence radius? does the shape hold across the full ±0.6 range or does it sharpen in a smaller band? #generativeArt #deLong