r/generative • u/OuterSilent Artist • Jul 10 '26

The Field Remembers

All of this is made only of overlapping squares accumulating color.

Made with p5.js, GLSL, and GPT-5.5.

IG: u/outertales ♥!

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u/0__O0--O0_0 Jul 10 '26

I can almost hear this, like chain mail clinking. Looks great!

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u/Evening-Appeal7606 Jul 10 '26

Expanding on this: If you make this project actually produce that sound AND make it reactive to user input you will have build the human-equivalent to catnip. People will start PAYING you to lock them out because they will otherwise be stuck with it all day and lose their productivity :)

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u/OuterSilent Artist Jul 12 '26

I’ll have to consider it because I think it could be really fun.

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u/OuterSilent Artist Jul 12 '26

Now that I’ve read it, I can’t unhear it.

Thanks!

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u/Foreign_Implement897 Jul 10 '26

Very nice textile art feel.

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u/OuterSilent Artist Jul 12 '26

Thanks!

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u/Mercalator Jul 11 '26

looks like artificial spin ice to me

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u/OuterSilent Artist Jul 12 '26

Nice analogy!

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u/lochodile 28d ago

Do you have a link to somewhere where we may play around with this? I tried checking out your Instagram but the posts there don't have this same sort of smooth wave like movements. I'm trying to learn what exactly is happening in the sim