The First Generative 404
This collectible series was adapted in early February 2024 from one of the first generative shaders I ever created.
In nostalgic homage to the bare bones aesthetic of command line environments, different editions employ palettes taken from the Mac default terminal color schemes, such as "grass," "aerogel," or "novel."
The generator takes a random seed, ie. each configuration of input parameters is associated with its own unique hash.
These were released as an experimental collection using the then-brand-new ERC-404 token standard, making it by some claims the "first generative 404."
The original algorithm, demonstrated above, was one of my first shaders and also draws on elements of one of my first complete VJ performance programs, built in Processing in late 2019. These patterns are created by a simple generative rule, a code art "one-liner;" essentially a binary test of whether pixel coordinates obey the equation (x*y) % t*n % t = 0 As a generative artist I seek definitions like this which, despite their apparent simplicity, surprise me with the variety of orders they can produce.