Here is a collection of some of the diversity that the first generation of the convolutional art generator generates. The posts of its making start here. Newer pieces are showcased here, and there is a depot as well.
I picked this one for its ability to play with the colours. Of course, this is something that the generator does not understand - it just slaps on colours on top of each-other, and these games of gold and fuchsia are small miracles in their own right.
One of the few succesful pieces with the ‘digital’ colouring. Pointillistic too, quite noisy, it’s like oil on water, a bit of sensory overstimulation, all in all. Without those black lines, the piece would lack direction.
This one has perhaps the tightest composition. A bleeding diagonal separating a soft green carpet from a strange blue and black abyss. The teal quality of the blue stands perfectly with the green, as otherwise I would hate that hue of green. To be honest, the generator keeps spitting out terrible lime greens, but this one, this one’s just fine.
This is a true rainbow. Also a good example of circles a) being visible and b) not ruining everything, which is a balance which took me a long time to reach.
And this one - I just really love black. Just look at it. So subtle. That flash of green seems so vivid when everything else is greyscale.
I really love the metallic sheen the colours somehow take on. Perhaps that is what this project is about. Not art. But how perception of small difference in light create a feeeling of a whole metal object.
