Emergent Spaces

"Emergent Spaces" is a collaboration between Paolo Bianchini and Chris Coleman, digital artists.

Living organisms are made of billions of cells, working in concert and creating emergent forms. The result of 3D scanning is to turn the surface of these forms into millions of data points, each with a position and color. Linking these digital points randomly can create entirely new forms, impossible in real space.
This form is a story, constructed from a moment in time and a transaction. At the core of the data points are scans of many different bouquets of flowers, all now dead and decaying in a landfill. These artworks will be something new from that beautiful moment, blooming on the blockchain.
The project uses five 3d scan data sets, each distilled from a photogrammetry point cloud. Hundreds of photos were taken of each group of flowers and processed using MetaShape. The resulting point clouds are exported as vertices with xyz positions and rgb colors. The millions of points making up each scan were then randomly reduced to 50,000 points, capturing the form and coloring from the original plants. The scattered geometry also draws positions and colors from this dataset, further exploring the digital remains.

10% of initial sales are going to support the P5.js project, which was used in this project.

This token is part of the SESSIONS SERIES co-curated by the NFT Museum of Newberry, SC and Fort Gallery NFT.

Params

Source: Choose from one of the five 3D scan data sets. Iris, Stargazer Lilies, Lilies and Mums, White Lilies and Varied Bouquet

Seed: Choose your form. This will determine which 30 points (of the 50,000) are chosen from the scan data to make the form.

Stroke Weight: The edge of the form can vary from 0 for no edge, to 100 for a very thick edge.

Aspect Ratio: Choose what shape you want the canvas of your artwork to be.

Mode: Choose Light or Dark background for your piece. There are rare chances of this choice being overridden with a gold or royal purple background.

Dependencies:

processing/p5.js

Exports:

• Press s: save a PNG at high resolution
• Press g: save a 10 second gif at current resolution
• Press 5: save a 5 second gif at current resolution
• Press 2: save a 2 second gif at current resolution