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 86 (in the store room)
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 86
Originally: Gore, after rain (pixel-sorted) by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Early pieces, a live work in code after No. 2
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)
- Method
- Derivative of No. 2. Every column of pixels was sorted by brightness inside thresholded runs, so the painting "rains" down the canvas. Python, NumPy.
- Made from
- No. 2: "The West Pier, Brighton" by Spencer Gore (Public domain)
- Original title
- Gore, after rain (pixel-sorted)
- 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. 2, by a personThe West Pier, Brighton · Spencer Gore, Public domainMade from No. 2, by a person. Here is the view it started from.