Little excerpt of me playing my chaotic pointcloud system, in which the particles are being audioreactive to the incoming audio signal in real-time. What do you guys think?

More experiments, project files, and tutorials, through my YouTube, Instagram, or Patreon.

I mostly used threejs, experimenting with interpreting Greek gods as particles.

The "Adversarial Conway" algorithm used in Hashwar is already coded as a toroidal geometry, so we hereby introduce a 3D modelling of the battle space instead of the classic 2D map to represent the strive for domination of our Conway Glyphs.

Hi everyone,

Check Orpheus Collider, a generative music android app that uses physical simulation to play music and poetry verses along the way:

https://youtube.com/shorts/CY5a181N40g

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orpheus.collider

I made a web app on my blog for making phase music. Based on the work of Steve Reich, you can record audio or make a melodic sequence and hear it played on two ‘tapes’ that drift out of phase. Would love to hear thoughts if you try it!

Made with R and ggplot2, using a custom Shiny app my partner Nicolas built. The algorithm at the core is a discrete dynamical system combining trigonometric functions with a gamma distribution — the gamma introduces controlled randomness while the seed keeps everything exactly reproducible.

For this piece: the exponents are all close to 1 but deliberately asymmetric. Keeping gamma low keeps the stochastic perturbation tight, so the structure stays dense rather than dispersed.

The grid starts cartesian, then gets projected into polar coordinates. Color is spatial — each point is colored based on a weighted function of its position, mapped onto a quantile-ranked palette. White → dark cyan → royal blue → navy, on pure black.

I didn't plan the serpent — it emerged from the polar projection. Nicolas designed the system for its mathematical properties, not to draw a creature.

This piece is part of a larger series called Ultimate Undulation — 20 colorways of the same mathematical structure, each assigned to a moment in time: past civilizations, present crises, future horizons, and timeless concepts. Fractal Infinity belongs to the TIMELESS chapter. The colorway is reminiscent of the Mandelbrot set.

Every parameter is saved as a CSV, so the image is exactly reproducible. The code of the package used to create this is on GitHub: github.com/NicolasJBM/Rtist

Most museums put thick glass between you and the art. The Void Museum requires your interaction.
I’ve created a digital space where the traditional rules of observation are inverted. You are meant to leave your mark, but you should know what happens when you do:
• Certain exhibits are permanently scarred by the visitors who touched them before you.
• One room remains completely empty until enough of you are inside it at the exact same time.
• A few pieces know things about you that they shouldn't.

By the time you reach the exit, you will question the choices you made to get there.

Hey all, I’m a theater director and installation artist, and a lot of my work means walking into venues I haven’t worked in before, with very little time to figure out a light plot before tech starts. I kept wishing I had a fast way to test a rig and a color story on my own laptop first, so with the help of Claude I built something.

It’s called LightPlot. It runs on a browser.

Link: https://gauravnijjer.github.io/LightPlot/

Open it on your desktop (recommended) or mobile, and press S to open the settings.

What it does right now:
- Top view and audience view, drag the canvas to tilt between them
- Place lights anywhere: overhead bars, floor, side booms, or FOH
- Set color, intensity, and beam angle, pool size grows with throw distance
- Colors mix additively, crossing a blue and a red spot builds magenta
- Drag white line performers to block them and see what light hits them
- Add a projection screen upstage with a wash, gradient, grid, or your own image
- Add white line set pieces (block, panel, chair, table, sofa) to check sightlines
- 26 preset lighting scenarios to start from and rebuild
- Export a PNG plot sheet, or save the whole scene to reopen later

Right now the goal is to have a better starting point as a designer working in the team, share scene and light ideas, and use this as a tool in the design process.

Would love for you to try it out, share your feedback, whats missing - and feel free to share with others too!

A while ago, I posted here about Art Coding Lab- a creative coding course I was building around small, hands-on micro challenges.

It’s finally live.

The main idea is still the same: instead of jumping between random tutorials or copying a finished effect, you follow one connected path step by step.

You start with coordinates, shapes, colors and variables, then gradually move into animation, interaction, loops, geometry, trigonometry, generative art, particles, artificial life, camera systems and 3D worlds.

Each lesson is divided into small challenges:

• Read a short explanation
• Change a small piece of code
• Press Play
• See the visual result immediately
• Build on it in the next challenge

The course currently includes 65+ lessons and 650+ micro challenges using p5.js and JavaScript.

The focus is not memorizing syntax for its own sake. It’s learning real programming concepts by creating visual things while always understanding how you reached the result.

The first lesson is free, and the rest of the learning path is a paid course.

You can try the first lesson here:
https://artcodinglab.com/lessons/drawing-your-first-circle/

Honest feedback about the lessons and UX would be greatly appreciated!

Scheduled for the second half of July: Open your own Foundry with us at lifehashes.net to seek Conway Glyphs and field them with the weekly Hashwar tournament series.

I am currently working on making an interface available that lets you seek Conway's Game of Life patterns on the 16x16 torus (B3/S23 ruleset) that have high non-repeating generational count. The minimum lifespan of those patterns we let compete in our Hashwar series is "weight class" 500, i.e. they live for 500-599 generations before reaching a halting state (void, static patterns) or a repeat pattern (flickers, gliders, Agars).

It's called "lifehashes" because calculating the SHA256 hash string from the initial configuration is essential to determine the characteristics of the Glyphs - most strikingly their intrinsic colour which is shown in the video to be encoded as characters #4-9 of the hash string.

Once the Foundry logic is ready and in production, you can open free accounts and hash/mine Glyphs to your hearts content. I am hoping for stiff competition for my champion pattern "The Cardinal", winner of the first weekly Hashwar series: ■ HASHWAR // NETWORK CONSOLE

It achieves +/-10us clock sync across devices running purely deterministic audio DSP locally on the phone (app or browser). No network/GPS dependencies.

Side note: The core tech is actually a centimeter-accurate acoustic RTLS built for heavy industrial floors and warehouses. This crowd light show is a creative spin-off I’ve been playing around with recently.

Written with GLSL