About — Apophenalogic

Overview: This site is a central repository for my various creative pursuits. Every day I am inundated with a constant flow of information through various internet feeds (twitter, facebook, blogs, etc), video podcasts, TV shows, movies, books, music, etc. On my blog, I attempt to filter out and share the most interesting bits of information. Having to condense my thoughts into a coherent articulation for a reader forces me to process the information more thoroughly and at a deeper level than I would otherwise. In addition to the blog, this site also houses various project pages, which are meant to help organize my ideas and results.

The name: for a brief explanation of the origin of the name Apophenalogic, see this blog post.

Author: Jamie Williams

Apophenalogic

My Recent posts

Blog

Creative Coding with ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot

about a year ago

The Quantified Tube

about 9 years ago

Codegraphy Project

about 9 years ago

My Instagram activity

Experimenting with a zany idea: recursive comics. I'm faking the 3d rendering simply using shearing and scaling transformations, so it would definitely look better if done with proper 1-point perspective in WebGL. I originally imagined the camera pos

Exploring some OG generative algorithms, like the L-system. It's a classic, but not sure it gives a compelling enough sequential narrative to dive deeper. Maybe gotta let it marinate on the back burner and revisit?

#generativeart #algorithmicart #p5

I published my second project on #fxhash, it's called "Rulette" (minting opens next Thursday.) There are over 125K cellular automaton rules to explore. It's fun trying to track down unusual patterns.

#generativeart #algorithmicart #cellul

A sneak peak at my next fxhash project...I'm pretty excited for this, it's a simple concept, but infinitely explorable (and addictive!). More details soon...

#generativeart #algorithmicart #cellularautomata #p5js

I'm excited to announce that I published my project "Story Gradients" on @fxhash and minting opens at noon on Thursday. It uses the fx(params) feature, allowing the minter to set the color palettes. It's fun repeatedly tapping 🔀 to explore

I'm very close to converging on a final version to publish on fxhash titled 'Story Gradients'. It will make use of the params feature, and probably have a run of no more than 50. Hopefully in a week or two...

#generativeart #algorithmicart #p5js #ab

I'm experimenting with global shapes that span the entire story, providing a unifying effect. A circle works well, providing a point of convergence or divergence, and it is often used as a metaphor for the story cycle. I'm also refining the color pal

Early experiments with color palettes, where each "scene" has its own palette, where I've attempted to encode the story-wide value curve and beat-to-beat shifts into color, but I'm struggling...these palettes were manually selected, would b

I'm experimenting again with abstract comics, this time playing around with using a stochastic story curve to guide the narrative flow, and exploring different visual encodings: panel brightness and line orientation (horizontal=>stable or safe, di

Here I'm experimenting with creating a composite shape by finding the convex hull around the shape primitives, and smoothing using the Chaikin algorithm. I need a better boundary algorithm that can resolve the individual shapes better, i.e. a concave

Here's a peek at my deep dive into shape generation methods, exploring the interplay between vector and grid representations. I'm interested in building up complex shapes from simple shape primitives. I have a rough roadmap of ideas I'm trying, thoug

Playing around with the square, circle, triangle motif, thinking it might serve as a nice twitter banner image. Here are three variants...I like the bottom one most.

#generativeart #algorithmicart #p5js

Polygon progression. Color palettes once again inspired by the delightful palettes curated by @colorandillustration.

I think this concludes this round of my experimentation with trying to convey a sense of change or progression across multi-panel pa

For comparison, here I've set the panel borders to black...maybe I like this more.

#generativeart #algorithmicart #p5js

Continuing my experimentation with circles and panels, now across multiple pages, with the simple progression of increasing the panel count. This time I make the panel borders more subdued, and added a color hold effect to the circle outline.

#gener

Final batch of multi-panel circles, with even more panels. Color palettes inspired by the exquisite palettes curated by @colorandillustration.

#generativeart #algorithmicart #p5js

Another batch of multi-panel circles, with more panels. Color palettes inspired by @colorandillustration palettes).

#generativeart #algorithmicart #p5js

Playing around with circles, panels, and color palettes (inspired by the beautiful palettes curated by @colorandillustration). This batch has a low panel count.

#generativeart #algorithmicart #p5js

Playing around with polygons. I made use of ChatGPT for the first time to help generate the p5.js code…extremely useful, albeit a humbling experience.

#generativeart #algorithmicart #p5js

My Recent tweets

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Apr 2, 2023, 10:25 AM
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Apr 1, 2023, 5:18 PM
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Mar 31, 2023, 5:40 AM