Diana Connolly – Looking Outwards 6

blòm by Lucas Tswick

blòm is a generative art piece by Lucas Tswick that includes 150 different rose-like iterations. I admire this piece because each pattern is beautiful, and the notion behind the piece admires the beauty and randomness of nature. The creator’s artistic sensibilities were produced in this piece because the artist was inspired by the infinite variations of nature’s patterns — in things like butterfly wings and reptile scales. The artist thus created 150 iterations of rose patterns, incorporating random variables within each iteration in order to replicate nature’s randomness and infinite variation. The algorithm used to create these iterations started with the rose’s center point, and gave random variables to the spiraling outer “petal” parts of each flower. Thus, each iteration looks different in pattern and shape.

More info about the piece and process:
http://lucastswick.com/blom-generative-art-for-thecardsproject/