That's a good point. Did you look at any of his other pieces, the black & white ones for example?They still suffer from the same criticism, but at least they don't look so much like candy floss ;-)
I took a look at his website and found a 4.8mb PDF which I started to believe was going to explain everything. Unfortunately that weight was taken mostly with images. http://jonathanmccabe.com/Cyclic_Symmetric_Multi-Scale_Turing_Patterns.pdf Here's the link which introduced me: http://www.algorithmic-worlds.net/blog/blog.php?Post=20110227 He's not mentioned until right at the bottom. James. On 5 March 2011 11:22, Michael Szpakowski <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be really interesting to see how, concretely, the maths and the > programming that create this interact. > The description doesn't give us any sense of this, or how much > "voluntaristic" initial artist input there is - surely *some* initial > conditions must be specified -colours, co-ordinates, whatever? > As it stands the description verges on arm waving & mystification... > It all looks *quite nice* in a theme-parky kind of way. Maybe, with an > appreciation of the pains the artist took to get to it, it could provide some > nourishment - at the moment, for me at least, it's candyfloss and no more... > michael > > --- On Fri, 3/4/11, James Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: James Morris <[email protected]> >> Subject: [NetBehaviour] into the color flow - Jonathan McCabe >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Friday, March 4, 2011, 11:50 PM >> "Three processes interact to make >> this animation. A spontaneous >> differentiation due to a multi-scale Turing instability >> causes the >> development of dots and lines of various colors. Each color >> is also a >> movement, leading to a compressible flow which smears and >> obliterates >> the dots and lines. The third process is an overall >> exponential growth >> or inflation. Small structures expand, and the Turing >> instability >> causes sub-structures to form. " >> >> http://vimeo.com/20012585 >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- _ : http://jwm-art.net/ -audio/image/text/code/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
