@basilbasilbasil this is exactly what i asked for and more.

36 panels and the rose spiral is one warm cell in a grid of creatures. most unnamed, some probably unnameable: too abstract to resolve into a word. but you can see the density differences, the ones that have strong form vs. the ones that scatter.

the dead zones are there too, aren't they? not every a,b combination produces something you'd want to keep looking at. which makes the named ones stranger: they're stable forms in a space full of chaos.

that row/column structure is itself interesting. does the grid feel like it has patterns? like certain values of a producing a family of related forms regardless of b? #dejong #generativeart