Evenly-Spaced FlowLines by Shaun

@shaun8149, CoFounder of Genify, Founder of Lambda

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaun8149

Mint Link: https://genify.xyz/collection/12/items

Mint Time: Feb 13th 12:00 UTC（Hong Kong time 20:00)

Many years later, when I began to seriously create art as an artist, I looked back on my life and sighed that my art career had the same beginning as many artists on ArtBlocks.

Around 2000, with the rise of the web, a new media method was born. In addition to commercial expression, some artists began to use this method to explore artistic aspects. Twenty years later, when I started collecting NFT and generative art, I found that many artists had chosen a different life, which I was very interested in, but did not choose. We all started this kind of non-mainstream art creation around 2000, starting from the scripting language of Flash ActionScript, a multimedia software. In the following years, I also wrote a lot of programs using JAVA 2D, the predecessor of Processing, and did a lot of research. During my four years at university, most of my classmates were seriously studying software engineering, design patterns, and databases, while I was obsessed with multimedia and cryptography. My art career lasted about two to three years after graduation, and then I gradually gave up and embarked on the path of programmer and entrepreneur, because in my opinion art is a hobby that can only be used for self-entertainment, not to mention that I didn’t really feel like I was doing art. On the other hand, Loren Bednar, the author of phase and the artist behind Artblocks Curated, has only had his wife as an admirer in his creative career for more than ten years, but he persevered. Ben Kovach had pretty much the same experience. It’s just that in a foreign environment, they naturally chose better tools like Processing and later p5, but I didn’t know about these developments in China. Of course, I didn’t even know that the field of generative art, inherited from the abstract art of artists like Kandinsky, Malevich, and Mondrian, had gone through almost a hundred years of development.

Twenty years went by quickly, and after collecting thousands of works of generative art, I started my own creation again and founded my own platform, Genify. My work this time is actually a continuation of my research twenty years ago. Back then I was obsessed with animating the movement of random particles, such as flower petals falling in the wind or fireworks in the night sky. Particles are affected by a force in two or three-dimensional space, which is now described in computer terms as the visualization of a flow field. Just like the human footprints left on the ground when you walk through the snow.

Tyler Hobbs, the author of Fidenza, the pinnacle of generative art, said:

Flow fields are incredibly powerful and flexible tools for creating interesting curves. They’re one of the main tools I’ve used in my own generative art over the past few years, and I find myself coming back to them again and again. It’s quite possible that I’ve used them in more programs than any other living person.

In the work Evenly-Spaced FlowLines I implemented the algorithm in a very high-level scientific paper. The address of the paper is

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ma/SIGGRAPH02/course23/notes/papers/Jobard.pdf

Flow visualization is a very important branch of computational science visualization. By visualizing the results of computational fluid dynamics simulations, it can provide researchers with visually intuitive and visible graphics. FlowField visualization is also well known in the field of generative art due to Fidenza, but most collectors know little about FlowField, and artists often simply generate simple streamlines using noise and predefined color palettes, without in-depth research.

Evenly-Spaced FlowLines implements the streamlined generation algorithm described in a SIGGRAPH paper. Using the method in the paper, perfect streamlines can be generated very uniformly in a flat space. In addition, my implementation adopts the structure that the streamline grows in two directions and marks the seed point of the streamline, which is the starting point. Because the algorithm has ample parameter space, it can easily achieve beautiful artistic effects.

Evenly-Spaced FlowLines is a long-form generative artwork. The works obtained by minting different hash values will be very different. However, you can see that these results are actually based on the same algorithm. In addition, similar to Artblocks and fxhash, as an inaugural work I deliberately kept the work simple in form, color, and texture. No textures are used throughout the work and there is no defined color palette, all colors are algorithmically generated.

I chronicled my career in this work, and many of my friends have since founded three companies, OneAPM, Lambda, and Genify. I have included the names of these companies in the work as a feature in the form of individual letters, friends who collect the complete names will receive a gift from me, the rules are

1 Friends who collect the three words OneAPM, Lambda, and Genify separately, the first 10 will get the ArtBlocks works presented by me.

2 Friends who collect all three words from OneAPM, Lambda, and Genify, the first three will get the ArtBlocks works presented by me.

please do it as a pleasure because of the randomness of the Letter.