2002

There is an unfortunate sense of naturalness in the use of the screen as the main output device for computational experiments. It is common to divide generative art from generative music, but there is no real necessity for the distinction; the underlying structures and code may be almost identical.

The animations came after an extended exploration of the Bezier curves (as described in the main project's documentation).

In the previous work, I had output instantiations serially; while each instance stood alone, it also had a relation to the sibling productions and to the parent system. Taken together, a series of instantiations implies the system. In the animated variations, the implication of the system becomes legible in time.

The project Bezier consists of experiments exploring the properties of the Bezier Curve – a workhorse of computer graphics. These elegant lines are the constituent elements of vector-based drawing and their mathematical basis finds its way into other aspects of visual display as well. For example, in motion graphics, the "ease-in" and "ease-out" functions used to create naturalistic movement can make use of bezier curves.