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What Is Generative Art? (2022)
Randomness, rules and natural systems. Some non-restrictive definitions and an exploration of the form.
Even without considering these theoretical ideas, pseudorandomness and procedural number generators like Perlin noise provide us with easy but powerful ways to produce effective and varied results. Simulations can vary in their level of abstraction, in a way that could be considered a gradient from art to science, with some works being loosely inspired by something from nature, while others seek to closely model and investigate the real world. A “data source” can also be directly applied to an output in an analogue way, as in Charles Sowers’ Windswept, in which 612 freely rotating metal arrows are spun by the wind, resulting in patterns which happen to be visually reminiscent of Vera Molnar’s Interruptions (see above).
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