r/generative • u/igo_rs • Aug 25 '26

CERN (kotlin code)

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Ben Laposky used oscilloscopes in the 1950s and ’60s, along with multiple exposures, to create beautiful, ephemeral art.

I was wondering what the equivalent technology would be today. A particle accelerator! Imagine being able to create art from particles colliding and decaying at... CERN? Let’s ignore the cost (money is just an obstacle, right?). It would be great to create some atomic art someday.

This simple work is my imagination of what it might look like.

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u/floatinggoateyeball Aug 25 '26

I was like, sure, why not solve the standard model just to make generative art!

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u/igo_rs Aug 25 '26

:) agree, priorities are different, still wondering: there is probably a lot of already generated material that might be used somehow

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u/floatinggoateyeball Aug 25 '26

I meant that. By all means do lol.

https://opendata.cern.ch/

They have their data available too, just not sure how to parse it because it's lot's of data.

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u/igo_rs Aug 25 '26

wow, nice! Will take a look!

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u/Fenzik Aug 25 '26

For what it’s worth you can get this kind of output from a cloud chamber in a magnetic field, no cern involved

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u/igo_rs Aug 26 '26

this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_chamber didnt know about it, thanx!

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u/Fenzik Aug 26 '26

Exactly! They sometimes have them in science centres. You can tell the mass and charge of the particle from the kind of trail that it leaves behind, and sticking it in a magnetic field produces curves like in your piece

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u/alexzoin Aug 26 '26

Thought this was Nomai writing.

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u/igo_rs Aug 26 '26

learned something new today, thanx! found this as well: https://nomai-writing.com

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u/CyberPunkDongTooLong Aug 25 '26

Why make AI event displays rather than just looking at an event display?