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featured videos

A video explaining the Clusters particle system
The evolution of walking tetrahedra
An interview with Carlos Farias


featured simulations

Gene Pool (real-time Darwinian evolution)
Clusters (lifelike particle systems)
Particlehedra (making polyhedra with particles)


book cover art

Bridges 2023 Proceedings
A book on the n-body problem
Poems edited by Joan Baranow


algorithmic art

Organic Algorithm (gallery prints)


Qualia (fine art prints from an algorithmic series)
Video: Acid Hits (NFT collaboration with Canton Becker)


visual math

Divisor Plot (composite number patterns - interactive)
Video: exploring number theory with divisor patterns

number tree (growing composite number structure)
Mandelswarm (a particle system Mandelbrot set)

Fractal Curves (recursive growth)
Mandelbrot orbits (interactive)


earth day

EarthDay (yearly spherical math tribute)



artificial life

Vestibular Bipeds (evolving walking tetrahedra)
Breeding Gliders (evolutionary cellular automata)
Wiggle Planet (self-animated characters)


wiggle planet videos


Wiggle Planet promo video

Wiglet Breeder video

Peck Peck's Journey

My tattoo pet

Floppy Boppin Wiglets


Peck Peck flies

pre-wiglet blockies

Wiglets are Wacky

Wignetics

Flip Flop Dance Jam


more videos


Cluster Leap Collaboration

Ventrella explains Clusters

Four Clarinets

Boiled Life

Earth Day 2020


Making Babies in GenePool

Video: Tree Yoga

Fractal Fugues

Lecture, Centre for Digital Media

Neural Clusters


more visual math


Cloctal

Brain Maze

Complex Number Squaring

Calculating Pi using Buffon's Needle

The Dragon of Eve

interactives


COVID-19 simulation

Particle Fluid

Pseudo-Springs

Gravity Tetris

Happy Birthday Ted Nelson

words


Virtual Gaze

The Case for Slow Programming

Embodied Emergent Narrative

The Tail Wagging the Brain

Is John Conway in Heaven?


spherical cellular automata

Composite Number Polyrhythms

evolving the Mandelbrot set

Particle swarm evolves CA gliders

Gene pool: natural selection + sexual selection

etc...


Peck Peck's Garden

The Gestural Turing Test

SkyBird Art

Puppeteering for Second Life

Virtual Body Language

Mandelbrot Genetics

Darwin Pond

Lungs are trees inside-out

Melodyball plays Donna Lee

old art made with atoms


bits and bobs

Animated Crop Rows
Apollonian Dance
Scott Kim Math Monday
MandelTweaks
Algorithmic playthings
There
Juneteenth 2020
Ideas
Interview
OceanFlow
Fractals on the Mind
Alife
Nuala at 50
Young Jeff with Fractal Heart
Solar
dot.car
music recordings




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