Flower
This sketch makes use of the Perlin Noise function in Processing, which produces an organic succession of random numbers. Each node has their individual noise paths, but the overall movement is determined purely by similarity of the paths. This means that there is a local random movement but also a global collective random movement.
"Flower" is an offspring of "Process", a sketch that helped visualise my working process for my MA major project. It was inspired by Mitchell Resnick‘s theories on decentralised thinking/learning processes. The particles represent individual ideas, which all have their own non-linear development paths. These paths are only influenced by other particles/ideas, which occupy the space around them.
The sketch shows a very strong flocking behaviour, as all individual nodes follow each other without any particular node leading. Although this suggests that the nodes carry strict behavioural properties and patterns, in this sketch this is not the case. In contrast to many other artificial intelligence applications, where intelligence is achieved through a tight set of parameters coded by the (human) author/programmer, the intelligence in this sketch is actually artificial as the parameters where not set by a human being but by random numbers generated by a machine. Although the sketch is visually very pleasing, it‘s conceptual context raises deeper, more serious questions on issues about technology and artificial intelligence.
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