Algorithms – Jared S Tarbell

JOURNEY.ICONOGRAPHY

Journey is a contemplative video game set in distant land riddled with mystery. It was created by my favorite game developer Jenova Chen.

ASEMIC.ILLUSTRATION.1

Uninterpretable technical diagrams in the asemic writing tradition. This is a place and test algorithm using four geometric objects.

PENROSE.SUBSTITUTION

This sketch uses a tile substitution method for constructing highly ordered aperiodic tilings. Each construction is made entirely from just two basic shapes.

SHIPIBO.PATTERN

The Shipibo are an indigenous tribe that live in the Amazon Jungle in Peru. During ceremony, a particular pattern is seen and heard by these people as a description of the reality of nature.

The Buddhabrot Set is a re-visualization of the familiar Mandelbrot Set using a technique invented by Melinda Green. Instead of selecting points on the real-complex plane, initial points are selected at random from the image region.

NODE.GARDEN.2020

A darker, more contemplative return to the Node.Garden from 2004. 10,000 nodes are organized along snaking spine objects.

VESICA.PISCIS: YOU, ME, WE

A meditative geometric construction of our relationship. This algorithm begins with two congruent circles labeled ‘you’ and ‘me’.

CONCENTRIC.PATHS

Concentric maze walking lines emanate from a central location alternating between ages of light and dark. Each path has a limited number of cycles through the machine.

INFINITE.DISINTEGRATION

We are like waves, rushing towards the shore, moment to moment made up of new matter. This particle generating system attempts to explore this idea.

SHIP.HULL

A combinatoric spaceship generator. This system takes the classic Asteroids delta shape and randomly adds primitive geometries to create unique spaceship designs.

VENATION

The veins below are composed of thousands of self-similar cells linked together. Randomly distributed hormone sources alert nearby cells of their location.

IMAGINARY.MACHINES

I was contracted by an imaginary client to build an interface for their imaginary machines. This project connects nodes in a ribbon lattice similar to the sacred Tree of Life.