Danielle Navarro
@djnavarro
occasionally reasonable
this system doesn't throw up minimalist pieces very often, but when it does... some of them really are lovely
it's wild how quickly i lose interest with systems when they "just work" and require no further action from me as the artist. yay, after days of tinkering with the code i can now generate an arbitrary number of these things with only the seed as input, and it works every time. i am immediately bored
the 85th output of the 17th iteration of the 4th attempt at designing a system around an idea i nicked off another generative artist, and at last i don't hate it
the world is depressing beyond my ability to describe. so, yeah, making art to distract myself from the horrors
one of my favourite experiences in writing art code is when the code base is just complex enough that you can almost predict what it will produce, but not quite, leading to pieces that aren't exactly what you were expecting #rstats
my mood has been so bleak lately, and i resent it when my code makes something pretty
yeah it's the heavy tails doing the work here. i was chatting about this with folks on mastodon actually. to my mind cauchy has an artistic elegance, but i suspect there's many ways to do it. idk, might make a fun blog post if i get time! the comparison to gaussian is really interesting
i am mortified. i've been writing art code in #rstats for several years now and it was only yesterday that i realised how useful the cauchy distribution is if you want the untidiness in an image to feel naturalistic