Last night, I had the idea to take part of the previous fluid solver, but instead of placing the “ink” in a grid, I’d replace it with particles and have those move according to the velocity grid. It would give a stronger impression of detail.
It didn’t look all that great from a realistic point of view, but I discovered that when I added permanent trails, things started to look more interesting, even tho I was moving further and further away from my initial idea. After some more experimentation, the result is some interesting pseudo-art (“pseudo” since I’m not an artist, and never will be ;) ).
I like how some of them turned out, but that’s coming from a guy who likes to look at pictures of strange attractors and spends too much time staring at his cigaret smoke :D
All of these were generated in Flash using Alchemy.
Very beautiful. To me they exhibit a LOTR character.
art is not something beautiful (check out Hermann Nitsch), it is something that you do for self expression.
maybe its not art but it is definitely design.. you will be a rich man.. or you can just share the code and make other people rich ;)
oh and please post these pictures on flickr in the group “generative and evolutionary art”!
Nice work David! It must have been the Double Whopper at Burger King which made you able to get this done! Those things are energy bombs ;)
Willem: Thx!
Makc: True enough, but for the record: I didn’t state art needs to be beautiful. Me not being an artist and me liking some of the results are two unrelated statements ;)
Henner: Flickr, eh? I’ll think about it – don’t really feel the need to join another social medium :)
Rien: Correction: Tripple Whopper! That 50% more meat! Cheers!
I was actually thinking that you personally think your stuff is not good enoug to qualify as “art”; so my point was that it is art regardless.
Ah lol, didn’t get that ;) But I have different reasons to think it’s not art – one of them being exactly the fact that I wasn’t really trying to express anything :)
ooh… that reminds me last king kong movie, when the monkey defeats three raptors, than just stands there for a while and finally walks away, like it doesnt really expect any appreciation.
Naw, I wouldn’t go that far. For one, I don’t nearly have as much chest hair :D
Not an artist? My butt. This is great!