Randomness Blog

For this blog, I found “Eternal Connection” by Claus O.Wilke very interesting. In the series of work, he dives not only a generative method using parameters, but he also employs randomness to aid his iterations that are now available as NFT’s. His method of creating these included Javascript and WebAssembly that allows for the art to “run live in the browser”. Moreover, there were multiple strategies of generating these connections, including Perplexity progression, Random seed progression, and color palette progression. Each of these variates one single starting piece that progresses step by step in very different ways. For the random seed progression, it uses a code very similar to noise in Java, meaning between every step in the 2D or 3D noise, taking different combination of input data types Each version is different but still very closely related, creating gradual but powerful changes over a “randomizer’’ that remains constant over the course of a loop. Through combining the different progressions, the system can alter the shape, concentration, and color of the patterns. Wilke uses this to generate grids that show similar variations side by side to create interesting patterns, whether it is the changing colors, shapes, or density.

https://clauswilke.com/art/project/eternal-connection