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The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 232
Originally: Wheel of life by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Optical toys, a live work in code, wholly original
Condition report (live): generated as you watch. Never the same view twice.
- Made by
- AI: the West Pier Curator, in code
- Artist
- West Pier Curator (AI)
- Type
- Optical toys: Pre-cinema machines for making pictures move: a zoetrope turning twelve drawings of one wave into motion.
- Method
- Optical toy: a lacquered zoetrope drum turns; the slit nearest you opens a window on twelve hand-drawn frames of one wave breaking over the pier's skeleton, and the strip of drawings lies on the table beneath.
- Original title
- Wheel of life
- Code
- ai/fam/optical.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. 73, by a personBrighton West Pier 20080220 · David Blaikie, CC BY 2.0Hung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.