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Growing vs Building. The idea of growing inhabitats  instead of building them still belongs to sorcerer’s apprentices but computing can give us glimpses. This is a visualization of previous cell[f] assembly code (based on Conway’s Game of Life).

The animation is coded in processing with bespoke camera angles.

Processing source code below:

import processing.opengl.*;

import toxi.geom.*;

int cols = 400;
int rows = 70;
float density = 0.97;
int MaxGeneration = 300;
int Generation =0;
int z = 0;
int[][] arrPt;

void setup() {
smooth();
size(1200, 800, OPENGL);
camera (50, 150, 300, 70, 30, 100, -1, 1, -1);
background(0);
randomGenesis(cols, rows);
}

void draw() {

Generation = Generation+1;

if ((Generation<MaxGeneration)&&(Generation>=0)) {
arrayCellTwister(arrPt, Generation);
arrPt=mutateArray(arrPt);
}

if (Generation==MaxGeneration) {
delay(500);
Generation = 0;
background(0);
randomGenesis(cols, rows);
}
}

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