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Turning into Turing (2022)
, an Informal Inquiry, 2022 TL;DR: If you repeatedly rotate an image (100’s or 1000’s of times) in Photoshop® using one of the bicubic interpolation methods, it will produce a Turing pattern. Rotational Growth in Photoshop® I stumbled into this one while working on a different project where I scripted the rotation of an image in preparation for an animation.
Some sort of generational loss was happening to the image and I remembered previous exmaples of exploiting and celebrating the degradation process, like Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room, saving a jpeg hundreds of times, and the like; I knew I needed to push the rotational distorion as far as I could. I was also aware of other projects that use repeated actions to expose generational loss that I mentioned earlier, but nothing that focused specifically on rotation as the impetus, and nothing that ended up with Turing patterns. I'm including here an example of the true extent of one image and, to show the hidden network of pixels, another version where I have removed the alpha (transparency) channel.
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