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 →
A download link for the drawing as SVG appears under the picture once it has started.
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 181 (in the store room)
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 181
Originally: Contour map of a ruin by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Plotter drawings, 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
- Plotter drawings: Vector drawings (hatching, contours, one continuous line) drawn by a simulated pen plotter. SVG download on the work page.
- Method
- Plotter: marching-squares contour lines of a noise field with the pier as a ridge.
- Original title
- Contour map of a ruin
- Code
- ai/fam/plotter.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. 39, by a personRemains of the West Pier, Brighton (January 2017) · Hassocks5489, CC0Hung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.