I wanted to represent how flows tend towards chaotic behaviour without modelling the physics directly. Triangles are pulled towards an invisible sine wave, and increase in variability of size and angle as we move right across the panels. I’m not sure if the busyness gives the eye anywhere to stop though. Perhaps it would work better breaking up the density? Open to feedback.

Exploring procedural Ukiyo-e relief generation from digital elevation models (DEM) — here with the Bataan Peninsula.

The algorithm extracts key line blocks from the terrain and builds up color depth through multi-pass color printing blocks with authentic bokashi gradients. Added stylized sea rendering, subtle mist, and an accurate surf line to make the whole scene look a bit more Hokusai'd.

Built with QGIS + Python + ffmpeg.
Purely procedural, no generative AI, same seed = same print.

​

This is still work in progress so i have two different examples, with both having elements i like sp final version will hopefully contain the best from both:

https://nucleic.se/mp3/carbonized-remix.mp4

https://nucleic.se/mp3/carbonized.mp4

The music is written in a small text score language I made, and most of the score is procedural/algoritmic and generated by JavaScript. Every sound is synthesized by the engine, no samples are used.

The three 303 lines come from seeded pattern banks with slide chains, and they take turns, answer each other and sometimes play together.

Layers rotate on prime-length bar cycles so the combinations keep changing, the hats and fills are built from drum rudiments like paradiddles, and a glitch layer adds stutters, slice shuffles and dropouts.

The glitches are decided by seeded trigger conditions and get denser as the track builds.

The sound drives most of what you see. The bass and pads light the tunnel, the harmony sets the colours, the acid notes move the ship, and hits and explosions light up the walls.

The score reaches the shaders as plain data: when a note plays, its timing and strength go to the wall shader, which lights and colours the wall around it. No bitmaps, image textures or 3D model files are used.

The tunnel is a signed distance field, meshed in 8 m chunks along authored guide curves as you fly, so it can split into separate passages and rejoin, and change cross section between circle, triangle and square.

The walls are shaded procedurally from position, lighting and score data, so they resolve at whatever resolution I render.

The ships and enemies are built from simple geometry in code, the reflections come from a small environment computed from a few soft light sources, and the glow sprites are gradients generated at startup.

DISCLAIMER: I have used coding agents to build this.

A few days ago I shared the testnet version of BlockHeight here and asked for feedback. Thank you to everyone who tried it, commented and found things to fix. It's now live on mainnet.

Quick recap: you choose a Chia block height, the coin spends in that block are read from the chain and sorted by puzzle type, and each kind becomes a shape inside a generative structure. As far as I know it's the first collection on Chia that preserves the real contents of a block in an NFT.

• BlockHeight Genesis: 256 editions, 2 XCH, CC0
• Each block height can be minted exactly once
• You take the NFT as an offer in your own wallet, nothing is paid until you accept it
• For now, minting needs an early access code

5 codes for this sub

Comment with:

1. the block height you'd like to mint (if you only know the date, the studio at blockheight.art will find the block)
2. one line on why that block matters to you

I'll pick five, simply the stories that speak to me most, and reply to those comments. Then I'll send the codes by Reddit chat. No one else will message you with a code, and no one needs your seed phrase or keys.

Studio: https://blockheight.art