helix6c

helix6c is an incremental generative art project.

The starting point is a very simple generative code, inspired by something I read a long time ago in a book by Matt Pearson, who was, unbeknownst to him, my master of generative art. The code draws 100 arbitrarily colored spirals. Each spiral is not perfect, but is perturbed using a technique known as Perlin noise. The overlapping spirals vaguely resemble a colored flower.

The project consists of modifying this code over and over again, until it is completely disrupted, while retaining its initial matrix: the warped helix. Any significant changes to the code will be saved, along with some generated digital artwork, and made public on this page of GitBook.

The project was also inspired by the work done by Roberto Ranon, aka Nonarotrebor, on the Substrate algorithm originally developed by Jared Tarbell.