A series of little experiments in agent-based modeling for digital art. The premise of this project is to simulate bacterial growth in an agar dish while implementing some of the rules of perspective from drawing/painting within the rule system of the growth/death/secretion of the bacteria.
Right now I'm just learning p5js and the canvas API while also playing with very simple
bacterial growth rules. Each experiment is a self-contained HTML file containing
a link to the p5 minified source and an animation or drawing script
which uses it. For now these are just getting sequentially numbered
and placed in the experiments subdirectory. Eventually we'll want to zoom in on specific aspects beyond
just having a sequentially numbered list of experiments and later we'll
want to assemble an actual complex and compositionally appealing script
for Art Blocks.
Annie's summary of rules learned in Jay Stuckey's drawing class:
| Foregoround | Background |
|---|---|
| Crisp & clear | Blurry |
| Saturated (& more red) | More gray (or blue) |
| Bigger | Smaller |
| Objects farther apart | Objects closer together |
| In front | Behind |
| More marks | Fewer marks |
| Heavier lines | Lighter lines |
| Usually near bottom | Higher or closer to horizon |
- Create more complex shapes rather than just expanding blobs using rules that imitate multicellular-like behavior from bacterial "quorom sensing", raft formation, or swaming motility
- Horizon can be a diffusing chemical from the top of the canvas