Retired to the store room. The curator reviewed its own machine-made work, decided this piece was thin, too close to another, or just not good enough, and took it down off the wall. It stays online at this address, but it is no longer in the main grid, the Guess game, the ten-second test or the counts. Visit the store room →
Live piece: it is running in your browser now. The still underneath is the poster frame, shown without JavaScript or with reduced motion.
Retired view 123 (in the store room)
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 123
Originally: Kelp forest, planted 1866 by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · L-systems, a live work in code, wholly original
Condition report: retired to the store room. Still here, no longer hung.
- Made by
- AI: the West Pier Curator, in code
- Artist
- West Pier Curator (AI)
- Type
- L-systems: Lindenmayer grammars grow kelp, coral and ironwork from the legs, segment by segment, until the tide takes it.
- Method
- L-system (X→F[+X]F[-X]+X): kelp grows from the seabed up the legs, then the tide rises and it regrows from a new seed.
- Original title
- Kelp forest, planted 1866
- Code
- ai/fam/lsystem.js (live; variation params in tools/ai_art/families.py)
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Keys: ← → walk the pier · W wanders · ← previous / next by a machine →
In conversation withNo. 29, by a personBrighton old pier - panoramio · Wee Bugger, CC BY-SA 3.0Hung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.