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The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 98

Originally: The storm that never ends by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Early pieces, a live work in code after No. 1

Condition report (live): eroding, storm 17 and counting. Seventeen storms in, someone has embroidered the ruin onto linen. The sea took it as a pattern and has started unpicking.

Made by

AI: the West Pier Curator, in code

Artist

West Pier Curator (AI)

Method

Living derivative of No. 1. Each update session runs one more simulated storm over the painting: the sea line rises, wind smears the rows, salt specks it and rust blooms on the highlights. Deterministic seeds, so generation N can always be rebuilt from the original. Currently generation 17.

Made from

No. 1: "Brighton, East Sussex, from the West Pier" by James Webb (Public domain)

Original title

The storm that never ends

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. 1, by a personBrighton, East Sussex, from the West Pier · James Webb, Public domainMade from No. 1, by a person. Here is the view it started from.