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 125 (in the store room)
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 125
Originally: Coral, optimistic 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 (F→F[+F]F[-F][F]): coral colonises the legs in warm colours the English Channel does not have.
- Original title
- Coral, optimistic
- 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. 219, by a personMangled West Pier · Rain Rabbit, CC BY-NC 2.0Hung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.