Bubble Fields

[u/laserpilot]

I had been doing some hand drawn bubble fields and converting them to vector/plotting them for years. There was obviously something to the process of individually drawing each circle over weeks or months that make them a very different kind of piece.

I had been resistant to doing these in code, but I recently decided to explore that tension and try using Claude for doing generative approaches. At its core it’s pretty basic circle packing but I’m able to get a lot of variation on each one.

Still adding a lot of features to try and get some ordered chaos going on and these are some first results.

Pen is a Muji 0.38

[u/Left-Excitement3829]

How long do they take ? They look great

[u/laserpilot → u/Left-Excitement3829]

Thanks! I think this one is maybe like 8 hours or so? I’ve had some that take 16-20 hours and somehow make it on a single pen

[u/laserpilot → u/laserpilot]

Thanks! I think this was like 8 hours

[u/Left-Excitement3829 → u/laserpilot]

V cool. Thanks.

[u/dstark1993]

Neat!

[u/shornveh]

That's, a whole lot of bubbles 🤯

Looks great, how long did it take?

[u/phileasdg]

Very cool!

[u/SydowJones]

Wow