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9 responses to “Red Tide of Tiles”
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Makes me think about this Great visual/Complexity work , i came across this morning : "The classic box fitting algorithm (see Box Fitting) modified with an image substrate, allowing new boxes to draw color from an invisible background."
Have a look to: "Lines likes crystals grow on a computational substrate . A simple perpendicular growth rule creates intricate city-like structures."
I felt like beeing on a rocket..flying away from a town…then city…cities…country…….. countries…..Humanity….Humanities??!!
Complexity with a big C, is probably my latest and most interestingly discovery !
"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency." – Alan Turing
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PS: Didn t saw your "checkmate" quote…
Strange chess board… in 3D….Remind me something…but what…?!? =)
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PhotonQ- wonderful art there. Thanks! I think the human mind perceives beauty in computational complexity.
To start, we see beauty in certain common patterns in nature (resonant homologies perhaps).
Specifically, it seems that we like the emergent constructs, fractal and nested, that arise from iterative computations (such as evolution or organic growth).
In other words, we appreciate the accumulated computational complexity produced by evolutionary dynamics (genetic and memetic).
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Discovered Gaudi about 30 yrs ago and wrote my master’s thesis on his work — it’s delightful to see it again. Love the dramatic point of view here.
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totally agree about humans attaching aesthetic value to objects or patterns that demonstrate iterative process or evolution by computation, natural or synthetic. how exactly do we define those of us who get equally excited by cd skips (and the new loops they create) or glitch artefacts common with dvd errors?! is it a case of anthropomorphising imperfections and having analogue fantasties superimposed over the general perception of clean, accurate, efficient digital systems?
i can’t find the photo now, but i once became obsessed with beautiful multicoloured square blocks containing organic shapes that appeared along the bottom of my cherished Prisoner dvd when it got stuck on a tiny hair on during chapter 2 🙂 man, those blocks were like the most lovingly-created flags for undiscovered nations, so small relative to the full screen but aesthetically very, very pleasing to look at.
this will have to do for now :
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on aesthetics… I love this Borges quote, and I find it deeply related to what you describe here. To me he is saying the same you do, with other words:
"The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it with other words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?"
"Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belabored by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we should not have missed, or are about to say something; this imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon."
— Jorge Luis Borges
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