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Etienne Jacob:  New Work

Etienne Jacob, who has been featured in Cross Connect before, is a 24 year old from France working on a Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics.  He saw the work of Wavegrower and was inspired:  He wanted to do the same kind of thing.  He succeeded.  Now you see his gifs all over Tumblr, and for good reason.  While they are generative based on math, they are also extremely seductive experiences for a viewer because he has a great sense of motion and design - and he makes great vortices.  Why just black and white?  Again, being inspired by Wavegrower, he said about other colors ‘I feel like it adds nothing, it is unnecessary’.  I have to agree.  His gifs are perfect for now, as is.

You can see more of his work at Necessary Disorder

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Looping with Noise

This is a trick I’ve known for ages from VFX work, so I really like this through explanation by Etienne Jacob (who has an excellent Tumblr blog of generative stuff). The post also explores a bunch of different things that you can draw with noise. Perlin (and Simplex) noise is useful for more than just the heightfield maps you may be used to!

Golan Leven has made an animation that demonstrates the basic idea behind the looping animations even more directly. (And provided source code for that too.) Like I said, this is one of my favorite noise tricks, and it works with any application of noise, so long as you have noise that’s at least 1 dimension higher than your output. And while circles are easiest (just rotate around a point) you can use any closed figure or repeating loop.

https://necessarydisorder.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/drawing-from-noise-and-then-making-animated-loopy-gifs-from-there/

https://gist.github.com/golanlevin/46a8fd29114f7a9f41345a9f0ccfd059

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Etienne Jacob:  Spectacular Black & White Vortices

Etienne, a 24 year old from France working on a Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics, saw the work of Wavegrower and was inspired:  He wanted to do the same kind of thing.  He succeeded.  Now you see his gifs all over Tumblr, and for good reason.  Sure they are generative and just based on math, but they are also extremely seductive experiences for a viewer because he has a great sense of motion and design - and he makes great vortices.  Why just black and white?  Again, being inspired by Wavegrower, he said about other colors ‘I feel like it adds nothing, it is unnecessary’.  I have to agree.  His gifs are perfect for now, as is.

You can see more of his work at Necessary Disorder

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