STACKED is an experimental project developed for the generative art gathering of MARFA 2024 (TX), but it's open and free to all!

During Marfa, I will print and hand out generative stickers. Each sticker has a serial number, which can be used to redeem the corresponding NFT until the end of November 2024.

Letters from 'MARFA' are decomposed into dot-matrix characters, these dots falling on a grid and stacked on top of each other as more letters are randomly added. The dots themselves are composed of an outer and inner layer, and these layers are combined to produce circular shapes of various intensities.

Five internal parameters guide the aesthetics of the final render. To reduce the universe of outputs to a more coherent ensemble, a custom machine learning algorithm was developed to categorize outputs and drive the parameters towards pleasing outputs (pleasing to me, that is..)

The title, of course, is a nod to Donald Judd's famous works, 'stacks', which are on display at the Judd Foundation in Marfa, TX.

Explore and have fun!

commands:
's' to save at current resolution
'm' to save at max resolution (it takes a few seconds)
'b' to save a bitmap (strongly dithered) image
'i' to invert the image