Finished my root system #generative#embroidery experiment. Made by starting with a full thread, splitting into 2, then again into 3. Decided to add a second grey layer under the white to give it some depth. Pretty happy with this. :)
I had a corridor chat about with two designer friends about the enshittification of the internet yesterday, with me, 20+ years their senior, waxing lyrical about the good old days of the World Wide Web. One of them forwarded me the long form piece 'Are We Watching The Internet Die?' by Ed Zitron's. It confirms all of what worries me about generative AI. Here's hoping there's a way to step back from the edge.
Learn how to make your own bitfield procedural art generator. We start by converting simple mathematical formula into images, then progress into teaching the computer how to generate its own formulas!