Michal Luria – Looking Outwards – 06

Flux / Gabriel Comym

“Flux”, a typography project generated with 1000 random particles, by Gabriel Comym.

The project I will present is a project called “Flux” by Gabriel Comym. The project creates typography generated by a thousand particles each, which are random in their location, length, speed, transparency and direction.

What I like about this project is that it makes the typography very expressive and with high aesthetics using mostly random values, therefore the artist himself does not know what the result of the art will look like, and what will the final typography portray.

The random values of the project are actual random numbers that determine the starting point, direction, speed and opacity of each particle. However, it is limited in speed, allowing it to create a sense of “growth” for each letter, as well as the limited location to the border of the letter for the starting point of each particle. In my opinion, these limitations serve the project well, allowing interesting development of typography without losing the visual aspect of being able to recognize the letter.