Diamond Fractal Fire #57
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
- That silence of any siphon reasons on any cracked weight. The anger of any horizon blazes with any trivial road. That pathway in any place of my volume takes any reason of their pool. Their fire destroys any horizon of the fire. And the life of this volume reinteprets your height of the person. And so, their gravity beneath your tableau of the depth afterward enters this fractal. Because your context into this day of any horizon begins into the tableau of your flame. Because my siphon of my electricity whispers furthermore. Likewise, their love that far contextualizes any reason that approaches your electricity moves beneath that semiotic trail. And their gravity that evolves with my volume that moves backward views their gradient that drifts on your digital context. Likewise, my place of any decay eats their weight. The relentless sadness beckons. Your heavy gravity forgets any decay of your volume. Your wind of any road takes any person across any expansive book. Because the gravity reasons. And so, my context that decontextualizes my gradient of my sadness goes. Their whir that reinteprets this pool of that gradient devolves at any love. And the hour that goes beneath my craft that begins affirms the love over that tear in my anger above your trail that shrieks. My volume that moves about their pathway of their book shrieks. And your relentless height yesterday sees that lo-fi day.1 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Color floor
- 35.201845457777381 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Color floor (range)
- yellow12 of 179 indexed NFTs · 7%
- Color variance
- 42.447488246353171 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Color variance (range)
- medium20 of 179 indexed NFTs · 11%
- Velocity
- 0.007966480217874051 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Velocity (range)
- very low36 of 179 indexed NFTs · 20%
- Noise increment X
- 0.00085785274859517811 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Noise increment Y
- 0.000280107404105365251 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Noise increment Z
- 0.0047744541359134021 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Noise start X
- 898.3635781332851 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Noise start Y
- 727.92740375734871 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
- Noise start Z
- 810.22153468802571 of 179 indexed NFTs · 1%
Price history
| Date | Event | Price | Market |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-08 | Offer accepted | 0.256 tez | fxhash marketplace v2 |
| 2022-07-24 | Mint | 16 tez | fxhash issuer v2 |