This is a collection of writing on topics like media art, cellular automata, order vs. chaos, and graphics programming in various states of completion. Everything you see here is a work-in-progress.
Essays
For a generous definition of the word "essay".
Notes
- Almanac ideas
- Cellular automata
- Climate notes
- Consider an image as an array of numbers
- Constraints create shapes
- Convolution
- Conway's Game of Life
- Creative coding competition
- Creative coding tools
- Creativity is detective work
- Evergreen notes
- Expansion and contraction
- Feedback Crystal Studio
- Feedback crystals
- Garden of computation
- Gridtoy
- Iron collective
- Kernel
- Fundamental limit of analogy
- Limit of language
- Mad scientist mode
- Moondog quote
- All music expresses one feeling
- Neighborhood of a cell
- Noise field
- Petri Dish
- Planet experiments
- Screen time contract
- Separate rendering and control into different processes
- Simple rules give rise to emergent complexity
- Spiral
- The three creative threads
- Web3
- What if a neighborhood varied over time and space?
- Worms