Category: combinatoric
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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. A beautiful symbolic language haunts your imagination as the story develops. After exploring the realms by foot and flight, the symbols’ meaning becomes clear. Largely indecipherable, the characters can be generated quite…
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SHIP.HULL
A combinatoric spaceship generator. This system takes the classic Asteroids delta shape and randomly adds primitive geometries to create unique spaceship designs. Each added shape is a circle, triangle, square, or line. Shapes are randomly translated, rotated, and scaled. Each shape reflects about the lateral axis for a symmetric appearance. This project was created in…
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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. A multi-mode blending technique screens colors together while also multiplying darkness. Labels are added post-construction, randomly assembled from two word lists (adjectives and nouns). Early…
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BLACK.SNAKES
Geometric, highly angular black snakes vomited from my spiritual psyche. Snake components occupy virtual grid, slight variations in relative angular placement perturbs the final form. Goodbye black snakes. Programmed in Processing By Jared S Tarbell In Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Around November 2, 2019
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NINE.DOT.THING
Combinatoric system connecting nine dots arranged in a 3×3 grid. There are 362,880 possible combinations with rotations and reversals allowed. Artistic renditions eliminate crossings for select dots. Programmed in Processing By Jared S Tarbell In Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Around 1:37pm August 13, 2019
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INVADER.SUPER.RING
The Invader is a special grid construction of black and white squares. I have generated millions of them. They are familiar friends. Previously arranged in order or in a fractal, here they are arranged in concentric rings. Rings vary in width. Invader scale and distribution is set to fit accordingly. One variation identifies and highlights heart shaped Invaders in…
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NINE.BLOCK
The nine block is a common design pattern among quilters. It’s construction methods and primitive building shapes are simple, yet produce millions of interesting variations. Individual blocks are composed of shapes in a 3×3 grid, from a set of 16 primitive shapes. Blocks are radially symmetric, so the shape and rotation for only three grid…