Diamond Fractal Fire #34
by Ross Goodwin
Project
Diamond Fractal Fire interposes recursively generated poetry with similarly recursive fractal imagery. Each text (unique for each mint, but always 20 sentences in length) is generated by a custom context-free grammar algorithm, fed with lists of words selected by the creator. The fractal pattern in each edition is a variation on a Koch snowflake fractal, one of the earliest fractals described by mathematicians. These fractals grow over time at varying rates, and pulse with varying color ranges using Perlin noise, eventually filling the screen.
Push h to save high resolution PNG and JPG images of the complete fractal pattern (takes a moment to process)
Push s to save PNG and JPG images of the current browser view (with current browser window dimensions and resolution)
Push v to begin recording canvas as a video (with current browser window dimensions), then push v again to save the video
Push f to toggle fullscreen mode
Push p to toggle zoom pause
Push r to toggle zoom reverse
Push c to toggle color shift pause
Push l to toggle low resolution mode (improves framerate)
The animation is somewhat computationally expensive, and so it runs best on contemporary laptop and desktop computers. Mobile devices and older computers may experience low frame rates. Captured video quality may vary depending on compute and browser limitations. The animation is responsive (it will adapt to any screen or window size), and resizing your browser window also will restart the animation.
Color floors and variances represent ranges for Hue using a Hue/Saturation/Brightness (HSB) color model. Velocities represent (subtle) zoom speed differences. Noise increment and start values affect the rate and variation of color shifts.
In addition to the author's code, Diamond Fractal Fire relies on the p5.js library.
ABOUT THE CREATOR
Ross Goodwin is an artist, creative technologist, and former White House ghostwriter. He employs machine learning, natural language processing, and other computational tools to realize new forms and interfaces for written language. From word.camera, a camera that expressively narrates its photographs in real time using artificial neural networks, to SUNSPRING (with Oscar Sharp, starring Thomas Middleditch), the world's first film created from an AI-written screenplay; from making London’s Trafalgar Square lions roar poetry (“Please Feed The Lions” with Es Devlin), to writing a novel with a car (1 the Road), Goodwin’s projects and collaborations have earned international attention. Winner of the 2018 IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling as well as Columbia University's Digital Dozen Breakthroughs in Storytelling Award for 2019, he earned his undergraduate degree in Economics from MIT in 2009, and his graduate degree from NYU ITP in May 2016.
rossgoodwin.com
Instructions
Diamond Fractal Fire interposes recursively generated poetry with similarly recursive fractal imagery. Each text (unique for each mint, but always 20 sentences in length) is generated by a custom context-free grammar algorithm, fed with lists of words selected by the creator. The fractal pattern in each edition is a variation on a Koch snowflake fractal, one of the earliest fractals described by mathematicians. These fractals grow over time at varying rates, and pulse with varying color ranges using Perlin noise, eventually filling the screen.
Push h to save high resolution PNG and JPG images of the complete fractal pattern (takes a moment to process)
Push s to save PNG and JPG images of the current browser view (with current browser window dimensions and resolution)
Push v to begin recording canvas as a video (with current browser window dimensions), then push v again to save the video
Push f to toggle fullscreen mode
Push p to toggle zoom pause
Push r to toggle zoom reverse
Push c to toggle color shift pause
Push l to toggle low resolution mode (improves framerate)
The animation is somewhat computationally expensive, and so it runs best on contemporary laptop and desktop computers. Mobile devices and older computers may experience low frame rates. Captured video quality may vary depending on compute and browser limitations. The animation is responsive (it will adapt to any screen or window size), and resizing your browser window also will restart the animation.
Color floors and variances represent ranges for Hue using a Hue/Saturation/Brightness (HSB) color model. Velocities represent (subtle) zoom speed differences. Noise increment and start values affect the rate and variation of color shifts.
In addition to the author's code, Diamond Fractal Fire relies on the p5.js library.
Traits
- Text
- Your hour that begins endures. Their void above the sea shrieks yesterday. Because their weight that blazes furthermore begins elsewhere. Any arc of this anger anyway takes that cinder over this plateau beneath their craft of that gravity. But the lo-fi death goes at your relative day. Likewise, their trajectory whispers with your context that recovers tomorrow. And so, my moment in their light whir pulses elsewhere. That person of my death furthermore bends the mirth against the neurotic mirror. Likewise, their touch contextualizes my growth that accepts any book over that wind in any moment of that sphere. And my drug about this ruin into their silence drifts yesterday. Your reason that pulses about my place through the growth that afterward extends the life into any fire of my death bends their blistering anger. That visitation that still ignores this life at your trajectory accepts their trail. This craft of that wind endures. My life on that pathway recovers elsewhere. And your height that ceases begins tomorrow. Any midnight weight denies your drug that yields. And so, their wind in any context that evolves ignores my pool that senses that blistering sleep. Because any life in your trajectory of your volume goes. But any silence that takes my rule that lacks any realm of their realm still is your consequential pool. Because their craft of their plateau reasons.1 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Color floor
- 74.179596942849461 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Color floor (range)
- indigo23 of 179 indexed NFTs · 13%
- Color variance
- 3.41015832812697541 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Color variance (range)
- very low85 of 179 indexed NFTs · 47%
- Velocity
- 0.74913833150640131 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Velocity (range)
- medium33 of 179 indexed NFTs · 18%
- Noise increment X
- 0.009599243251141161 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Noise increment Y
- 0.00255329094361513841 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Noise increment Z
- 0.00166384628973901281 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Noise start X
- 531.33608773350721 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Noise start Y
- 39.072568528354171 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Noise start Z
- 314.5353833679111 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
Price history
| Date | Event | Price | Market |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-11 | Offer accepted | 1.25 tez | fxhash marketplace v2 |
| 2022-07-24 | Mint | 16 tez | fxhash issuer v2 |