The piece evokes hand-drawn landscapes, but it is created through an algorithm that processes topographical data from randomly selected small regions. This generates a series of ridges that, when layered together, create a composite image of a synthetic landscape. I was inspired by both the artistic style and narrative of Tom Gauld's "Vers la Ville."
In this comic, two people are marching toward their future (a town), but their journey is marked by only drizzle and minor worries. To try to emulate this senseless yet captivating feeling, I sampled around a thousand small regions in southern France and only kept the least striking ones, those with a mild elevation variation. This adventure was accompanied by a short poem generated from a famous quote of "Lorem Ipsum."
In this collection of landscape representations, I used real elevation data produced by various public institutes to create digital representations of the Pyrénées mountain range. I selected pieces moving from realism to abstraction while staying in the landscape figurative style, a way to acknowledge mountains as scientific and mystic places.
I'm interested in figuring out how open-data and automation interface with a creative process, particularly how code can increase the number of realisations, while still enabling branches leading to singular pieces. In this collection, the algorithmic work enabled me to explore different geographical regions and landscape scales, but also rendering aesthetics.
Ridge Chemistry
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The piece evokes hand-drawn landscapes, but it is created through an algorithm that processes topographical data from randomly selected small regions. This generates a series of ridges that, when layered together, create a composite image of a synthetic landscape. I was inspired by both the artistic style and narrative of Tom Gauld's "Vers la Ville."
In this comic, two people are marching toward their future (a town), but their journey is marked by only drizzle and minor worries. To try to emulate this senseless yet captivating feeling, I sampled around a thousand small regions in southern France and only kept the least striking ones, those with a mild elevation variation. This adventure was accompanied by a short poem generated from a famous quote of "Lorem Ipsum."
In this collection of landscape representations, I used real elevation data produced by various public institutes to create digital representations of the Pyrénées mountain range. I selected pieces moving from realism to abstraction while staying in the landscape figurative style, a way to acknowledge mountains as scientific and mystic places.
I'm interested in figuring out how open-data and automation interface with a creative process, particularly how code can increase the number of realisations, while still enabling branches leading to singular pieces. In this collection, the algorithmic work enabled me to explore different geographical regions and landscape scales, but also rendering aesthetics.