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/generative systems
- 12.02.21 Arcade Machine Dreams
Arcade Machine Dreams is my second collection on NiftyGateway and is very much an ode to the video games I loved as a teenager. Growing up …
- 06.12.20 That Was The Week That Was – 6th December 2020
This week was all about the release of a dream project I had been working on for some weeks. Back in July, Jim Coudal, co-founder, …
- 15.11.20 GETTING STARTED WITH HQUEUE
GETTING STARTED WITH HQUEUE Need to get this setup on my own system.
- 15.11.20 How the Coronavirus Hacks the Immune System | The New Yorker
How the Coronavirus Hacks the Immune System | The New Yorker Fascinating article in The New Yorker about how the Coronavirus works and how …
- 19.10.20 Inspiration shoud always be a fuzzy thing
Right now the work I’m making is often monochromatic, exploring light and shadow, composition and contrast within a greyscale palette. This …
- 17.10.20 Art by algorithm
Art by algorithm Written in 2017 but still a great read.
- 16.08.20 Shape Grammars
Shape Grammars # This looks like a nice companion to Analog Algorithm.
- 09.08.20 That Was The Week That Was – 9th August 2020
For twelve years my 2nd generation Drobo has been my main archive drive, with 16TB of data whirring away under my desk, storing all my …
- 26.07.20 That Was The Week That Was – 26th July 2020
This week I had a call with a dear friend of mine, who's asked for my assistance on a very exciting project, involving making potentially …
- 12.07.20 That Was The Week That Was – 12th July 2020
I have a little device sat on my desk which lights up when I'm uploading uploading updates to my site via the site repo. I built it myself …
- 14.06.20 That Was The Week That Was — 14th June 2020
This week I've been exploring some ideas with Vellum — Houdini's soft body simulation system. It seemed my wobbly low-poly horse struck a …
- 07.06.20 That Was The Week That Was — 7th June 2020
The notebook I ordered from Armorial arrived and it was very disappointing. The finish of the binding was very badly done, and in the …
- 24.05.20 That Was The Week That Was — 24th May 2020
In the course of researching an approach to creating a new piece of client work, in WebGL, I searched around for something node / graph …
- 26.04.20 That Was The Week That Was — 26th April 2020
Lusted over the stationery made by Amorial. Like this quote from Freud about consideration when writing a letter: I consider it a good rule …
- 01.03.20 That Was The Week That Was — 1st March 2020
Notch is something I've been meaning to get into, ever since my friend Marc Theile mentioned it to me last year. As a fan of node based …
- 09.02.20 That Was The Week That Was — 9th February 2020
A beautiful book arrived in the post this week from Christopher Grünberger. Analog Algorithm — Source Related Grid Systems, is a kind of …
- 16.01.20 Making The Art of Cybersecurity
A year on from when this work was commissioned, I thought I'd write up my thinking and process that went into The Art of Cybersecurity — my …
- 12.01.20 That Was The Week That Was — 12th January 2020
The Entagma Houdini tutorials are always really high quality, so I wasn't surprised to see just how good this series of videos were …
- 22.12.19 That Was The Week That Was — 22nd December 2019
The Dubai large screen visualisation enquiry I had last week has now been moved back to a little later in the New Year, so the pressure is …
- 21.11.19 With a Net Worth of $950 Million, Why Does Jerry Seinfeld Still Work So Hard? …
With a Net Worth of $950 Million, Why Does Jerry Seinfeld Still Work So Hard? His Response Is a Master Class in Achieving Incredible …
- 12.11.19 In the network, the system began to blossom
#houdinifx #generativedesign #generativeart #computationalart #codedart
- 07.10.19 Ceramic Growth Pattern #houdinifx #generativedesign #generative …
- 29.09.19 Delicate Parisian Voronoi
#generative #houdinifx #typefacedesign #typography #generativedesign I created a group expression on the filled primitives using modulus to …
- 24.09.19 City population density data rendered as type
#design #art #graphicdesign #dataviz #typography #typeface #data #datavisualisation #generative #houdinifx Using again the lovely …
- 24.09.19 Developing a system in Houdini to create dynamic interfaces from data
Spent the morning developing a dynamic interface system in Houdini which will populate a menu with CSV data, which I can then use in …
- 23.09.19 One more of these
Grainy render on the shadows. #generative #typefacedesign #houdinifx #natureinspires
- 22.09.19 Grow
Using the Crayonette typeface from @djrrb #generativedesign #generative #houdinifx #typography #typefacedesign
- 22.09.19 Delicate glass cubes
I like the little compositions the refractions of the cubes make in combination. I’ve also added tapering to the branches to make them seem …
- 22.09.19 Strange refractions
#houdinifx #generativedesign #generative
- 17.09.19 That Was The Week That Was — 15th September 2019
At the start of the week I found myself firing up Fusion 360 to create a better case for my Git Deploy Notifier which I had built the …