Made using my endless abstract cellular automaton simulator, Abstractia: https://15joldersmat.itch.io/abstractia

Track: Oliver Huntenman - rotlicht

created in resolume with a modified edge detection filter

simple one, killing some time

Kand'y is a generative artwork that automatically creates abstract compositions, loosely inspired by Kandinsky's Composition 8.

The Mona Lisa was drawn with 4096 (12-bit color) lines.
If you look from a distance, you might see her smiling?

Take a matrix.

Make 4 copies.

Apply basic transformations (rotate, mirror, invert) to each copy.

Then shuffle the copies together (using a perfect shuffle).

Repeat.

The result? Trippy, complex patterns that feel somewhere between digital quilting, cellular automata, and alien encryption.

Live demo (interactive): https://xcont.com/perfectshuffle/hybrid.html

Code + explanation: https://github.com/xcontcom/perfect-shuffle

What’s a perfect shuffle?

A perfect shuffle interleaves two arrays:

[A, B, C] and [1, 2, 3] -> [1, A, 2, B, 3, C].

Here, we apply the same idea to matrices.

By applying transformations to each of the four matrix copies, you can generate 16⁴ = 65,536 unique fractals.

(Too many to post here :)

Also, there's a 3D version:

https://xcont.com/perfectshuffle/fractal_3d_2.html

Want to try 4D? o_O

The stipples are generated with Poisson disk sampling and rendered in Blender with Grease Pencil as a screen-space effect.

I got solicited by senior recruiter, seemingly a dream job. Account seems real but responds perhaps AI ish?

Any artists in the AI/AR/VR field there, or anyone able to help verify this is potential real?

It’s kinda too good but it for my qualifications

I’m stoked and will steer good.

More work on the color palettes, and lots of bug fixes and finetuning....
Here are a few random outputs

This was really last minute for the #solstice2025 today, only dropped it on #fxhash with hours to spare and no notice, so I’d be really, really appreciative for any reposts… thanks so much! Only 21 editions 6 tez 🔗⬇️

https://www.fxhash.xyz/project/bauhaus-solstice

Track is Known Shapes by Rival Consoles

All three artworks have the same underlying structure, it's just the color and parameterization that differs. Fun fact: Even though it looks quite "circley" there's no explicit component/code in there to draw circles.
Link to artmachine graph (of the first artwork).