from: Complexification | Gallery of Computation
(thanks to Eyebeam ReBlog)
via Complexification site:
Invaders are friendly expressions of numerical magnitude. Using only 15 bits, a mirror, and a little patience, we can render
32,768 unique instances of them.
Arrangement of invaders is based on a recursive fractal method. Given
a region, an invader is placed within a random percentage of it. The
process is then repeated for the remaining spaces until the regions
become indistinguishably small.
When I saw this site full of Invader Fractals I immediately thought of Bruce Connor...
Bruce Connor 1991
Ink blot drawing [more info PDF]
And while searching for scarce online images of Connor ink blots I remembered Warhol's Rorshach paintings....
via Artnet archives (1996):
Andy Warhol: Rorshach Painting, 1994
andy warhol: rorschach paintings
by Mia Fineman
Andy Warhol's Rorschach paintings, produced in a giant spurt of activity in 1984, have the kind of star quality that Warhol always admired. Liquid, protean and seductively vacant, they reflect your own desires and fantasies right back at you. Conceived in the spirit of superstar Nico's beguiling promise ("I'll be your mirror"), these pictures will be whatever you want them to be. [...]
...and then I found a nice image (via Alamut) of the real thing.
hi joy, this is p:ngpong reblog ):;)<