The "chaos game" is best know for picking a random point inside a triangle, then picking a random vertex and moving halfway to it, creating a Serpinski fractal. Here I allow >1 vertex to be chosen from a polygon and the movement is the average of all those selections. I also turn the polygon into a fractal and allow all the vertices to be possibly chosen. At lower vertex sampling the image is still highly geometric, but as more vertices are sampled it becomes more cellular or organic.

Back to simplicity, two similar works

Done with P5.js

sharing my first experiment with volumetric raymarching. rendered realtime in touchdesigner.

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Gravity bends the light near the black hole into a ring, drawn here entirely in grain.

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I’ll say the AI part first, so nobody feels tricked.

I am not a programmer. I had a concept: synth generators, drawn live at random in an interesting way. I poured that concept into an LLM (Claude): generate code, change, fix, add a feature, repeat. After endless late-night conversations, this came out.

The page itself does not use any AI model to make sound. None. There is no model running, nothing is streamed and no music is pre-recorded. Every note, drum hit and effect is synthesized live in your browser from rules, math and random numbers. No two listeners hear the same thing.

But yes, the code of the page was written by AI. A lot of my own work is in there too: the concepts, the functions, how the effects look and behave. I listened, rejected, and asked again, many times.

And then the sci-fi story, the audio drama that gives it flavour. That is entirely my idea: a colony ship with troublesome robots, small chances of making it, chilling messages overheard on the intercom. Maybe banal, but it makes the mood. The individual lines were written with the LLM on my direction, and the voices are old-school synthetic speech (eSpeak), on purpose.

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What is under the hood:

• a conductor that picks a style and a story made of sections, a composer for chords, bass, arps and lead, a drummer, and a mix engineer riding the levels

• a supersaw wall of about 75 detuned voices, a 16-line feedback delay network for the hall, and a grain “swarm” that scatters attacks around the stereo field

• a picture that follows the audio: a sunrise over a moving horizon, flashing with the kick

• a reset button that makes a new world: different instruments, different tune

One HTML file, no libraries, no account, no ads, no tracking.

Best on headphones.

https://watahy.com

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If you feel that AI-written code is too much for this sub, I will understand.

https://bohemian-miser.github.io/Spectre/map.html#/map?seed=1&f=hex&cx=0&cy=0&z=14&ln=1&e=023468&c=000000000

Seeding physarum colonies with Kimiko Ishizaka's beautiful performance of the Aria from The Goldberg Variations. This performance (and the rest of the variations) are available for free here: https://opengoldbergvariations.org/

Code is a custom app Swift/Metal written by me (with Claude assistance)

Made with three.js