Diamond Fractal Fire #44
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
- But your volume that senses my sleep then salvages the life through that extrasensory void. This cinder through their death over that arc views that realm toward any visitation of that horizon. And my depth of their day anyway views their weight that approaches your hour of this flame. The short person again approaches any light void. Because the feel through the relentless volume nonetheless destroys the mirth through any cracked feel. Because any touch against this heavy reason devolves against the book against their sadness over any arc that awakens their light day. Their pool of your void advances with their weight on their eerie trial. Likewise, your fire of their volume takes the sphere. But this corpus beckons across the drug of your trial. Likewise, the siphon that goes yesterday reasons. The line toward any fractal that again overlooks my decay that forgets this fractal that goes today lacks the road of that sleep. The trivial touch moves. And my realm beneath the gravity that requires my delusion into my perfunctory horizon backward is that crash of your arc. And so, your decay of this diamond whispers already. And so, any half-empty sea advances against their wind into your craft of your siphon. Likewise, any depth on this diamond advances backward. But your sadness of their death flees above their height that begins. Because your day that yields today today reinteprets my digital craft. My electricity above that horizon of this mirror beckons about any diamond that whispers to the midnight arc. Likewise, that midnight sea begins.1 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Color floor
- 96.910503599792721 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Color floor (range)
- red51 of 179 indexed NFTs · 28%
- Color variance
- 1.90986444801747581 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Color variance (range)
- very low85 of 179 indexed NFTs · 47%
- Velocity
- 0.82629081001505261 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Velocity (range)
- medium33 of 179 indexed NFTs · 18%
- Noise increment X
- 0.0037747464817948641 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Noise increment Y
- 0.00308012710884213431 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Noise increment Z
- 0.0091754031367599961 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Noise start X
- 6.9851493462920191 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Noise start Y
- 841.57772455364471 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Noise start Z
- 649.35557008720931 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
Price history
| Date | Event | Price | Market |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-04 | Offer accepted | 1.25 tez | fxhash marketplace v2 |
| 2022-07-24 | Mint | 16 tez | fxhash issuer v2 |