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 130 (in the store room)
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 130
Originally: Rust, as a rule by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Cellular automata, 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
- Cellular automata: The pier is the starting condition; rust, Conway's Life, falling sand and Wolfram rules do the rest.
- Method
- Cellular automaton: iron next to rust or sea corrodes, rust flakes off and falls, the sea rises and falls. Then it rebuilds and starts again.
- Original title
- Rust, as a rule
- Code
- ai/fam/automata.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. 6, by a personWest Pier circa 1920 · Unknown, Public domainHung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.