".r🜨tation" is part of the interactive minting experience at Proof of X with KUMALEON, Tokyo, 2023

"proof of x ≒ 23.4" First, let me explain how I discovered this parameter through the production of this work.

It started as a collection of black and white contour map style noise. I had not yet found X from this simple noise. I turned the particles into lines and rotated them based on the noise. This rotation was the beginning of everything. A flow field was created there. However, I had not yet found X from the monotone flow field then. Next, I added color along the noise. Blue and green flow field reminded me of water and plants, and red and yellow reminded me of trees with autumn leaves. White also evoked snow and brown reminded me of deciduous trees. Several landscapes were created. However, no satisfactory X was found from the colored flow field. By intuitively rearranging them, I came to associate them with the changing seasons. Through finding order in the noise, I found the first parameter "the cycle". It's sequence of the seasons. Based on this parameter, I decided to explore the X . I set the cycle to 12. I found something that repeats over a cycle of one year. It is the orbit of the earth. The earth revolves both on its own axis and around the sun. However, there is something missing for cycle of the seasons to occur. What was missing was the earth's axis. It produce beautiful noise which harmonize with each other on the ground. "X ≒ 23.4 : the axis of the earth" , this is what I discovered "X" through this work!!

What I mean through this series of association game is as follows.

I used a lot of formulas in my code. But the main tools I used to get from the initial simple black and white noise to the "X" were sensitivity, analogy, and creativity. Being able to discover artistic values about the fluctuations caused by randomness and noise is a precious gift given to human beings. I believe it is the fundamental force that advances and enriches human beings, like discovering gravity from an apple falling.

And I believe that one of the possibilities of generative art is the ability to gain new awareness and new creativity from unexpected results through repeated trial and error. I did not start out trying to recreate nature. This project is the result of a dialogue with code to find X.

Generative art by @ConatusLab

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