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adyer07
Thanks for reading! I’m particularly interested in hearing how a technical audience responds to art like this. Did it resonate for you?
jgon
I really enjoyed it and it motivated me to explore some of these techniques in my own projects!
zadkey
I most resonated with the "Objects in a git object tree, graphed by ants."

This felt very real or close to real for me.

adyer07
Yeah, I still feel like there's a lot unexplored there. Abstract code visualization seems like it would be an interesting project in its own right.
undershirt
The first one looks like pictures of my eye taken after my doctor scans it with a light (I suppose that's just an angiogram you mentioned later). Those rasters were my favorite, and I love the artful clarity of complexity you achieved. I came away appreciating emergence a bit more. Interesting how the complexity resisted the contrivance during attempts to press it into shapes! (subscribed to your newsletter)
adyer07
Thank you! I do wonder why the resemblance to veins is so strong. There must be something interesting and emergent going on there, too.
reroute1
That's exactly what I was thinking! Blood vessels and capillaries. Cool project.
zadkey
This is really cool. Do you have some code that you are willing to showcase?
adyer07
Certainly - you can look at the source for the p5.js port here, which is basically a line-by-line port of the original processing3 simulation: https://github.com/oxling/p5js_ants

The other parts, the rasterization and vectorization, I haven't cleaned up to the point where the source isn't terribly embarrassing! One of the weird things about this project was the code became more of a means to an end than an artifact in itself, so it's littered with a lot of dead experiments, swear words, and so on.

cube2222
It seems to be dead: "Error establishing a database connection"
sulZ
I'm getting the same. Hopefully it will be fixed when I check back again later.
s9w
I don't know anything about web hosting, but how come HN kills pages so quickly? This has 33 upvotes right now - even when I assume that translates into 1000times the clicks - 33k of anything don't seem that much to my naive assumptions. Is web hosting that hard?
flir
It might have gone over a bandwidth threshold.
adyer07
Server ran out of memory, apparently - back up now, with more swap space on the server :)
twoquestions
Good stuff! For some reason you just don't see a lot of machine guided/generated art like this out there, and that's a shame.
bdr
There’s a lot of it happening, it just doesn’t get the most attention. If you’re in NYC there’s a great exhibition on now that includes generative art: https://sfpc.io/sevenyears/
GaryNumanVevo
This is some of the most visually stunning stuff I've seen in a while. Excellent job!