From: Phil Osborn (philosborn2001@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Mar 21 2002 - 19:32:42 MST
Actually, one of the things that I would like to see
is a truly programmable paint program. And, yes, I
know that IF I knew a real modern programming
language, I could take the GIMP engine and use it as
the base for such a program. Time, as always, is the
problem.
I look at some of the Julia set images and imagine how
I would like to set rules so that instead of a dot
strictly determined by some recursive chaotic formula,
the results in different areas could programmatically
dictate an image selected from a library of
algorythms. Imagine the scenes from heaven from "What
Things Might Be," as examples. The underlying
structure would still be chaotic, but instead of
fractals that looked like trees from another universe,
they would pick up tree algorithms so that the fractal
structures would become matched and replaced with real
images - or images that could be real...
Imagine wearing ultra-rez glasses that recreated
reality to your taste in real time along the same
lines. People or entities who specialized in
creating/mutating reality into art forms would earn
their upload space and terraflops by selling their
skills to other people who specialized differently.
You could live in an impressionist or a Daliesque
world, with music choreographed to your taste and
changing to match, enhance or redirect your mood.
On a somewhat related note, one of the sad fallouts
from the takeover of the Borg is the loss of such
really neat visual effects as color-cycling.
Microsloth's idiot OS makes a lot of
simple-but-spectacular effects that we used to have in
the '80's virtually impossible in practice.
Mandelbrot images properly color-cycled suddenly
become an order of magnitude more visually
interesting.
As to the genetic algorithmic art, I recall seeing a
lot of that stuff at SIGRAPHs for the past couple
decades. Some of it is truly lovely.
Amara wrote:
You might like these, they are not 'Chaos' though. The
engine that generated these is a genetic algorithm.
Evolutionary Color Images: Nick Turner
http://www.marlboro.edu/~lmoss/planhome/tour/nick_images.html
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