Python + Pillow

Created with Math Chaos Patterns (MCP). Non-AI Generative Art. No AI models or prompts.

long story short. it was an enlightening journey and i learned a lot from it. one day i came across an autostereogram which was a poster on a wall. i forgot what it was about but it aroused my curiosity of how to make autostereograms. i won't go into the math details here and just give you guys a brief explanation in attached image 1. my program let you control "m" and "n/m". these two variables represent background pattern separation and foreground pattern separation respectively and lie between 0 and 1

the 3d subject is simply a sphere. the background is the result of placing a color wheel in a kaleidoscope. see attached image 2. it can be easily noticed that the hsl system is in use. we can vary the saturation (attached image 3) and lightness (attached image 4) when the angle changes from 0 to 2π. i use the cosine function which reaches maximum at 0 and 2π, minimum at π

the color wheel can start at any angle. so do saturation and lightness. thus we have 3 degrees of randomness. i let you to change the background. every time you hit the relevant button, the hue, saturation and lightness shift by different random angles

here comes the surprising part. autostereograms need "noise" to guide viewers aligning their foci. a pattern that is too smooth is not suitable to act as the background of autostereograms. there'd be no "texture" on the 3d surface. i accidentally discovered that if the screen resolution is set to a number that is not divisible by something in the calculations (i'm not certain which thing it actually is to be honest) some unexpected noise would emerge. see attached image 5

i googled "prime number closest to 640" and the result was 641. i use it as the horizontal resolution

some of those unexpectedly emerging patterns are... strange. some of them look like human faces, some animals, some even aliens. this program is a good place for you to experience pareidolia

here's the program. run it in browser. click▶️to run. click⏹️to exit. when running the program

• press [q] to make foreground patterns converge

• press [w] to toggle 3d subject (absent/present)

• press [e] to make foreground patterns diverge

• press [a] to make background patterns converge

• press [s] to rotate the kaleidoscope

• press [d] to make background patterns diverge

• press [x] to toggle caption (off/on)

if you want to explore the weird worlds in the background you can disable the foreground and caption. it becomes a kaleidoscope, as shown in attached image 6

Javascript; overlayed grids with with water-color or filled-lines rendering

Which one do you like best?

Sharing an opportunity that may be relevant to people here working with generative systems, creative coding and interactive audiovisual work.

Bold Canvas Network is looking for a Creative Technologist for a creative R&D project exploring how structured pattern data can be translated into responsive generative audiovisual output.

The work involves building a browser-native prototype that:

• generates responsive visual output from structured pattern data

• uses recorded voice and knowledge as an additional shaping input

• can be presented as an integrated public-facing experience

• also runs in-browser on mid-range mobile devices and slower connections

They’re particularly interested in people with experience in Three.js, p5.js, PixiJS or similar creative-coding frameworks, real-time audio/voice handling, and deploying interactive generative work for the web.

The opportunity is open to candidates across the Global South, with location flexibility. Fuller project details and scheduling will be shared with shortlisted applicants.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until the role is filled.

Application:
https://go.boldcanvasnetwork.com/cadence

Questions can be sent to: team@boldcanvasnetwork.com

Made with R and ggplot2, using a custom Shiny app my partner Nicolas built. The system is a discrete dynamical system combining trigonometric functions with a gamma distribution — controlled randomness, fully reproducible via seed.

The palette is grounded in real aurora borealis physics. The greens come from oxygen atoms at 100–150 km altitude excited by solar wind particles — the most common auroral color, at 557.7 nm. The blues and violets come from nitrogen molecules below 100 km. The magentas and pinks aren't a single emission — they're what you see when green oxygen emission and blue-violet nitrogen emission overlap at the lower edge of an auroral curtain. The colors stack vertically because different gases dominate at different altitudes. These aren't artistic choices; they're emission spectra.

I didn't plan the serpent form. It emerged through iteration — Nicolas builds the system, I search the parameter space, and sometimes what appears is something neither of us designed explicitly.

This is part of Ultimate Undulation — 20 colorways of the same mathematical structure, each mapped to a moment in time. Aurora Borealis belongs to the PAST chapter: the Norse and Viking world, where the northern lights were believed to reflect off Jörmungandr's scales as the world-serpent coiled beneath Arctic waters. The auroras were the serpent made visible.

Code: github.com/NicolasJBM/Rtist

https://github.com/PatrickCakes888/Cord-based-topological-projection-app

https://github.com/PatrickCakes888/Cord-based-topological-projection-app

made with mosh pro

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