Ralgo.Art

Generative Art Explorations

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Seasky (Work In Progress)

Seasky is the result of experiments on generative light, sea and clouds to create dramatic (and slightly surreal) seascapes. First the light covers the canvas, then the clouds cover the light (sometimes the light challenges back) and then the sea rolls over. The birds and slight blurring aim to add to a feeling of life in the images.

Order v Chaos (Overgrowth III)

https://verse.works/exhibitions/ordervchaos-imperfections – Feb 2023

The works represent a simplified battle between natural chaos and the human need to strive for order and control. This project is essentially a follow on from the Overgrowth series on FxHash. It uses colour for the first time and introduces ordered elements to compete with growing chaotic forces.

Quantum Places Lost In Time

A frozen scene from a lost dimension
An alternative of where we once were, or where we will be
Caught in the moment and set in place
Between all states
Static pixels on a digital canvas

The path to this collection has created many alternatives lost in time themselves. It began as a study of points of light, with geometric objects in the background. The background objects developed a life of their own and then birds, and ships, made out of bezier shapes became the focal points. Then everything got lost in clouds before the collection as it stands now emerged. Aside from the published traits, many of the artifacts created on the way are still generated. For example, star fields, birds, sonars and gas bubbles. These are sometimes visible, but when they appear, it is simply by some chaotic chance.

Continuum

Continuum is a combination of 2d and 3d random walks in colour and space.

Overgrowth

Overgrowth is an exploration of random growth focused on three interconnected elements. The first is a randomly moving brush, the second is one is an alternating overlay of white and black circles along bezier points between brush movements, and the final one being a continually decreasing brush size.

The overall result gives a complex scribble art effect.

See the full collection at Fx Hash

Overgrowth was an experiment in mixed brushes, and random walks, to create complex scribble landscapes. Overgrowth X8 takes the concept a number of steps forward.

The first change is that there are 8 brush heads rather than 1. The starting location of these brush heads have been curated into 6 sets.

a) Four Corners – 2 brush heads emanating from each corner,
b) All Together Now – All brush heads starting at the same low central location,
c) Great Monument (sometimes),
d) Upon this Slope, these structures are built,
e) Heaven and Earth – 4 brush heads at the top and 4 at the bottom, sometimes they meet,
f) Random Landscaper – All brush heads randomly placed in the lower part of the canvas.

Each brushes white ellipses are now a randomised shade of very light grey. This gives slightly more depth.

As the brushes usually do not randomly fill the whole canvas, there is a background that has been built to be consistent with the drawing, rather than just using a solid color or mono light bands.

White and black stroke sizes have been adapted to give a slightly wider range of effects.

See the full collection at Fx Hash

Excerpt from the Annuls of WoSAGE (the Worshipful Society of Adventurers and Generative Explorers) XXVII.Vol.2048

“Some of the fantastically coloured reeds that grow in clumps along the banks of the Tezonian river have profoundly affected the local inhabitants culture and beliefs.

Legend tells of how there lived majestic creatures, that were so beautiful, and dazzling, that they greatly offended Nocturna – the Deity of the Night. After many unsuccessful attempts to get rid of them, usually foiled by the Majestic Creatures in elaborate, and clever ways, Nocturna cast a powerful spell upon them. This spell was extremely effective and made them plummet, with great speed, into the ground leaving only their tails to show.

The creatures then turned their energy to nature, and joined as one to become a deity of the natural world. They rise and protect creatures from harm – especially during the night.

The reeds (tails) are held as sacred, and believed to have healing powers.

I have created this graphical study of the tails (exotic reeds) for your informational requirements and ocular interest.

128 images are planned to follow henceforth, subject to available minters.”

Full collection at FxHash – https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/slug/tails-of-majestic-creatures

Exploratories

These images are the results of combining and recombining numerous mathematical functions over a plane on red, green and blue channels.

The extreme randomness has not been tamed, and quality generations can take time, so they have not been released into a generative format as yet. However, it is my ambition to mould these into a coherent and special collection in due course.

Astral Docks

(On Hold – Issues with different rendering on different browsers)

This work is a combination/culmination of a number of studies, of algorithms, I have conducted in 2022. These have all been carried out using the p5.js.

The work considers you as a traveller on an astral journey, moving towards a place of activity and life. The full write up of Astral Docks can be found here

Fictional Cityscapes Collection

This collection is the product of experiments in line art to construct cityscapes with a highly unusual architecture of gradient lines changing width on random levels.

The results show the unpredictable nature of outliers. 128 editions of fictional cityscapes were minted on FxHash.

Lepids Collection : Parked Project

The Lepids are a subset of the Exploratories, which have be created through a specific combination of sine wave iterations. There is a considerable taxonomy to create when I get the time.

Festival Collection

Another subset of the Exploratories which took a simplified set of sine waves and created inference between them. It is a study of how waves and colours interact. It was the first project I released on FX Hash and there are 64 Editions.