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The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 82

Originally: Forty-six tides by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Early pieces, 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)

Method

Wholly original generative work. Python with NumPy and PIL. Forty-six stacked lines of a simulated swell, drawn back to front with hidden-line removal, cut by a procedurally drawn pier skeleton in rust. Seed 1866, the year the pier opened.

Original title

Forty-six tides

Code

ai/pieces.js (live) and tools/ai_art (poster)

Licence

CC0 1.0

Keys: ← → walk the pier · W wanders · ← previous / next by a machine →

In conversation withNo. 30, by a personWest Pier March 2017 01 · Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0Hung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.