Color Therapy. Noisy evolution.

Two snapshots of my piece C-SCAPE, 2022, a multi-organism 1.5D cellular automata simulation. Patterns of symbiosis and annihilation.

Made with https://thi.ng/cellular

#CSCAPE #CellularAutomata #GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt #EvolutionaryArt #Abstract #Color #Texture #ThingUmbrella #NoAI

PSA: Not that it was ambiguous beforehand, but these are times for stating things more clearly...

All #ThingUmbrella package readme files are now clearly stating that these projects are "LLM-free, human-made and cared for software, maintained as part of the https://thi.ng/umbrella ecosystem and anti-framework" 🫡

I cared for and tended this garden of hundreds of projects almost daily for close to 10 years[1] (even if the commit heatmap doesn't always show it). It's a testament to the things I've learned, built, explored and tried to share with the world, things which helped numerous people and companies (big & small) to realize their unique projects/products/services. I'm not gonna sacrifice this body of work and all this cohesion by watering/poisoning it with slopicides[2] and/or making it dependent on the great planetary token machine...

In The Handmaid's Tale, I always found the moment about "freedom from" vs "freedom to" very poignant, albeit in a different/inverted sense to how it was used there: Traditionally, Open Source licenses have granted freedoms "to" certain things, especially unconstrained uses. But if licenses still have any meaning at all (highly debatable in this climate/age), we increasingly need alternative licenses/mechanisms to also grant our creations freedoms "from" certain uses/practices/people/orgs...

[1] ...only the TypeScript/Umbrella parts counted here. Many other thi.ng projects are much older...
[2] Have I just coined a new word?!

#ThingUmbrella #OpenSource #NoAI

Connecting glyphs sounded like a good idea...

#creativeCoding #Kotlin #OPENRNDR

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/110293441969762183

I wrote this in May 2023 and I'm still fully standing behind this, maybe even more so by now, with a position strengthened by "recent developments" and the ongoing normalization of mythologizing software/technology (and commercially exploiting these myths) rather than being focused on actively demystifying them, communicating the strengths/weaknesses of algorithms/techniques, their behaviors etc, also creatively/artistically...

#GenerativeArt #AI #Mythology #Criticism

The Mountains Flowed Before Him (2026)

(Given a large enough time scale, these mountains would be almost like waves...)

#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Alps #Mountains #Hiking