#cyclicuniverse — Public Fediverse posts

Like in previous years, I'm only passively participating in #Genuary2024 and posting relevant existing experiments/sketches/pieces... Two more candidates (in addition to the recent boids work) incoming for the "Particles" prompt, incl. this first one from 20 years ago:

IdeaSpace - a cyclic universe (2004)

http://toxi.co.uk/p5/ideaspace/

"A space with a steadily increasing number of moving particles attracted by slowly moving, invisible gravitational centres. The cyclic nature of the space itself acts as four dimensional history, causing each particle to leave a persistent trace in time as well as in space. The paradoxical result of this setup is that whereas the number of particles is approaching infinity there's no increase in computational cost."

This piece was shown at my first solo show @ Mediaruimte, Brussels in 2004. It was started with a "small bang" event (aka spawing the initial particle system in the sim) during the exhibition opening and by the time the show was finished 2 weeks later, the (sim) space was almost entirely white, almost completely filled with particles...

Ps. In the video: 1 rotation = 1 cycle of the simulated universe.

Pps. Also worth noting that this was done entirely without (before) GPUs, all software rendering only. Each particle is actually shown as thin line from its previous position...

#Vintage #GenerativeArt #Generative #Genuary2024 #Art #Particles #NBody #Gravity #Visualization #CyclicUniverse #ProcessingOrg

Like in previous years, I'm only passively participating in #Genuary2024 and posting relevant existing experiments/sketches/pieces... Two more candidates (in addition to the recent boids work) incoming for the "Particles" prompt, incl. this first one from 20 years ago:

IdeaSpace - a cyclic universe (2004)

http://toxi.co.uk/p5/ideaspace/

"A space with a steadily increasing number of moving particles attracted by slowly moving, invisible gravitational centres. The cyclic nature of the space itself acts as four dimensional history, causing each particle to leave a persistent trace in time as well as in space. The paradoxical result of this setup is that whereas the number of particles is approaching infinity there's no increase in computational cost."

This piece was shown at my first solo show @ Mediaruimte, Brussels in 2004. It was started with a "small bang" event (aka spawing the initial particle system in the sim) during the exhibition opening and by the time the show was finished 2 weeks later, the (sim) space was almost entirely white, almost completely filled with particles...

Ps. In the video: 1 rotation = 1 cycle of the simulated universe.

Pps. Also worth noting that this was done entirely without (before) GPUs, all software rendering only. Each particle is actually shown as thin line from its previous position...

#Vintage #GenerativeArt #Generative #Genuary2024 #Art #Particles #NBody #Gravity #Visualization #CyclicUniverse #ProcessingOrg

Like in previous years, I'm only passively participating in #Genuary2024 and posting relevant existing experiments/sketches/pieces... Two more candidates (in addition to the recent boids work) incoming for the "Particles" prompt, incl. this first one from 20 years ago:

IdeaSpace - a cyclic universe (2004)

http://toxi.co.uk/p5/ideaspace/

"A space with a steadily increasing number of moving particles attracted by slowly moving, invisible gravitational centres. The cyclic nature of the space itself acts as four dimensional history, causing each particle to leave a persistent trace in time as well as in space. The paradoxical result of this setup is that whereas the number of particles is approaching infinity there's no increase in computational cost."

This piece was shown at my first solo show @ Mediaruimte, Brussels in 2004. It was started with a "small bang" event (aka spawing the initial particle system in the sim) during the exhibition opening and by the time the show was finished 2 weeks later, the (sim) space was almost entirely white, almost completely filled with particles...

Ps. In the video: 1 rotation = 1 cycle of the simulated universe.

Pps. Also worth noting that this was done entirely without (before) GPUs, all software rendering only. Each particle is actually shown as thin line from its previous position...

#Vintage #GenerativeArt #Generative #Genuary2024 #Art #Particles #NBody #Gravity #Visualization #CyclicUniverse #ProcessingOrg

Like in previous years, I'm only passively participating in #Genuary2024 and posting relevant existing experiments/sketches/pieces... Two more candidates (in addition to the recent boids work) incoming for the "Particles" prompt, incl. this first one from 20 years ago:

IdeaSpace - a cyclic universe (2004)

http://toxi.co.uk/p5/ideaspace/

"A space with a steadily increasing number of moving particles attracted by slowly moving, invisible gravitational centres. The cyclic nature of the space itself acts as four dimensional history, causing each particle to leave a persistent trace in time as well as in space. The paradoxical result of this setup is that whereas the number of particles is approaching infinity there's no increase in computational cost."

This piece was shown at my first solo show @ Mediaruimte, Brussels in 2004. It was started with a "small bang" event (aka spawing the initial particle system in the sim) during the exhibition opening and by the time the show was finished 2 weeks later, the (sim) space was almost entirely white, almost completely filled with particles...

Ps. In the video: 1 rotation = 1 cycle of the simulated universe.

Pps. Also worth noting that this was done entirely without (before) GPUs, all software rendering only. Each particle is actually shown as thin line from its previous position...

#Vintage #GenerativeArt #Generative #Genuary2024 #Art #Particles #NBody #Gravity #Visualization #CyclicUniverse #ProcessingOrg

Like in previous years, I'm only passively participating in #Genuary2024 and posting relevant existing experiments/sketches/pieces... Two more candidates (in addition to the recent boids work) incoming for the "Particles" prompt, incl. this first one from 20 years ago:

IdeaSpace - a cyclic universe (2004)

http://toxi.co.uk/p5/ideaspace/

"A space with a steadily increasing number of moving particles attracted by slowly moving, invisible gravitational centres. The cyclic nature of the space itself acts as four dimensional history, causing each particle to leave a persistent trace in time as well as in space. The paradoxical result of this setup is that whereas the number of particles is approaching infinity there's no increase in computational cost."

This piece was shown at my first solo show @ Mediaruimte, Brussels in 2004. It was started with a "small bang" event (aka spawing the initial particle system in the sim) during the exhibition opening and by the time the show was finished 2 weeks later, the (sim) space was almost entirely white, almost completely filled with particles...

Ps. In the video: 1 rotation = 1 cycle of the simulated universe.

Pps. Also worth noting that this was done entirely without (before) GPUs, all software rendering only. Each particle is actually shown as thin line from its previous position...

#Vintage #GenerativeArt #Generative #Genuary2024 #Art #Particles #NBody #Gravity #Visualization #CyclicUniverse #ProcessingOrg