Round 10 of 15 · 2 October · From compute back to nature
Lagoon
Back to the Open Water sea, with everything learned since. Machines sit on the sea floor, the work between them is a murmuration of starlings, and the model rises from the water in layers. The first pass was beautiful and chaotic. The second put the machines in four rings of sixteen stages and ran one light round them like a sequencer, and the picture finally had an order you could follow.
The pieces
2 pieces. Each opens live in a new tab.
Lagoon, first pass
LeftThe Open Water floor seen from above, craning to a dusk horizon; machines on the sea floor; 9,000 starlings; a model of cells built from the flock.
Open the piece ↗
Lagoon, second pass
CarriedMachines in four rings of sixteen stages; a sequencer light; one flock band; each layer built by its own stage; blue-grey. Published at /iota/lagoon/.
The structure of everything after.
Open the piece ↗Mikyö's note, which moved it on
The murmuration is a little bit incoherent… it just feels kind of chaotic… too freeform and unstructured… keep the aesthetic a bit more in the blue-gray register… make them all a bit sharper.
Then, on the second pass: rework it in the aesthetic of Metapattern, from a full scan of the work.