#cellular forms

New Post has been published on https://videopress.newonline.help/2020/12/24/cellularforms-hd-x-ray-version/

CellularForms HD (X-Ray version)

This is an updated version of my earlier Cellular Forms animation (https://vimeo.com/82989945), including music by Max Cooper.

This X-Ray version uses exactly the same simulation data as Cellular Forms HD (https://vimeo.com/93056665), but renders them using a density accumulation map. Effectively a digital X-Ray through the structures. This reveals internal structures in the forms not apparent in the renders that only show the extenal surface.

The animations use digital simulation of a simplified biological model of morphogenesis, with three-dimensional structures generated out of interconnected particles to represent cells.

Each form starts with a initial spherical cluster of cells which is incrementally developed over time by adding iterative layers of complexity to the structure. The aim is to create forms emergently: exploring generic similarities between many different shapes in nature rather than emulating any particular organism, revealing universal archetypal forms that can come from growth-like processes rather than top-down externally engineered design.

Cell division is controlled by accumulated nutrient levels. When the level in a cell exceeds a given threshold the cell divides, and various parameters control how both the parent and daughter cells re-connect to their immediate neighbours. New nutrient can be created by photons in cells hit by incident light rays. Nutrient can also be allowed to flow to adjacent cells. The simulation process is repeated over thousands of iterations and millions of particles, with each of the final structures comprising over fifty million cells.

For more information about Cellular Forms: http://www.andylomas.com http://andylomas.com/extra/andylomas_paper_cellular_forms_aisb50.pdf

New Post has been published on https://videopress.newonline.help/2020/11/12/cellular-forms-hd/

Cellular Forms HD

This is an updated version of my earlier Cellular Forms animation (https://vimeo.com/82989945), including music by Max Cooper, and exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival and the Bridges 2014 conference of maths and art.

The animations use digital simulation of a simplified biological model of morphogenesis, with three-dimensional structures generated out of interconnected particles to represent cells.

Each form starts with a initial spherical cluster of cells which is incrementally developed over time by adding iterative layers of complexity to the structure. The aim is to create forms emergently: exploring generic similarities between many different shapes in nature rather than emulating any particular organism, revealing universal archetypal forms that can come from growth-like processes rather than top-down externally engineered design.

Cell division is controlled by accumulated nutrient levels. When the level in a cell exceeds a given threshold the cell divides, and various parameters control how both the parent and daughter cells re-connect to their immediate neighbours. New nutrient can be created by photons in cells hit by incident light rays. Nutrient can also be allowed to flow to adjacent cells. The simulation process is repeated over thousands of iterations and millions of particles, with each of the final structures comprising over fifty million cells.

For more information my work and Cellular Forms: Website: http://www.andylomas.com Mailing list: http://eepurl.com/by__dH Paper: http://andylomas.com/extra/andylomas_paper_cellular_forms_aisb50.pdf

geil. 20 minuten für Berechnungen die vorher über 24 Stunden gedauert haben.

Tag 257

Seething / Cellular Forms by Max Cooper / Andy Lomas

Music: Seething by Max Cooper - from the album, "Human" out now: Vinyl/CD bit.ly/FIELDSshop / iTunes: smarturl.it/MCHuman / Beatport: btprt.dj/TC7WHJ

Video: Cellular Forms by Andy Lomas

Max Cooper's 'Seething' is a musical version of human intensity, complemented visually in this video by Andy Lomas's presentation of the seething, unstoppable and unrelenting propagation of life.

The simulation work originates from Andy Lomas' study titled 'cellular forms', which uses digital simulation of a simplified biological model of morphogenesis, with three-dimensional structures generated out of interconnected particles to represent cells.

Each form starts with a initial spherical cluster of cells which is incrementally developed over time by adding iterative layers of complexity to the structure. The aim is to create forms emergently: exploring generic similarities between many different shapes in nature rather than emulating any particular organism, revealing universal archetypal forms that can come from growth-like processes rather than top-down externally engineered design.

Cell division is controlled by accumulated nutrient levels. When the level in a cell exceeds a given threshold the cell divides, and various parameters control how both the parent and daughter cells re-connect to their immediate neighbours. New nutrient can be created by photons in cells hit by incident light rays. Nutrient can also be allowed to flow to adjacent cells. The simulation process is repeated over thousands of iterations and millions of particles, with each of the final structures comprising over fifty million cells.

00:04 -- 04:41 : Nutrient created using omni-directional diffuse light 04:41 -- 05:50 : Nutrient created using light from directly above growing forms 02:01 -- 04:28 : Blue overlay indicates regions of new cellular division 02:34 -- 03:09 : Magenta overlay indicates accumulated nutrient levels in each cell 03:09 -- 03:39 : Red overlay indicates number of photons hitting each cell

For more information about Cellular Forms: andylomas.com andylomas.com/extra/andylomas_paper_cellular_forms_aisb50.pdf