Nuages possibles #21

Stippling clouds imagined by a computer.

Each cloud is a "Nuage possible"

It may be generated from code,
but these clouds might have existed,
or might exist in the future,
just for a brief moment.

Those images were inspired by Joanie Lemercier’s cloud series, an algorithm is imagining more and more variations of those skyscapes in an infinite quest for the perfect cloud.

Once created from code, the drawings are made by a plotter machine, a little robot that moves a pen over black paper to lay down dots of white ink. The robot is like an extension of the artist’s arm, allowing him to create infinite iterations and variations.

The dots pattern and their density help create the illusion of shadows, gradients and brightness, a technique inherited from the pointillism movement, born in Belgium and France in the late 19th century.