SYSTEM HUMAN:
ALGORITHMIC GROWTH
While looking at patterns emerging from the simplest things in life, like a duck swimming in a pond creating ripples or a colony of ants marching along their paths, you come to realize that reality is a beautiful system that just works perfectly. We just happened to be able to be aware of this.
This work puts you face to face with an infinite amount of random computer generated trees.
“The development of an organism … may be considered as the execution of a ‘developmental program’ present in the fertilized egg. … A central task of developmental biology is to discover the underlying algorithm from the course of development.”
~ Aristid Lindenmayer
These trees grow in a way that resembles how trees in our reality would grow. For this growth pattern a specific algorithm is used called: L-System, short for Lindenmayer System.
It is an algorithm that uses simple mathematical rules to determine how many branches to grow, in which direction and when to stop growing. Lindemayer came up with this algorithm after studying plants for a really long time. He found that plants ranging from grass to trees all have these patterns they follow, and certain behaviours they seem to all use in a different way.
All these unique plants can be broken down into logical mathematical rules. This fascinates me as an artist who likes to play with our perception of reality. L-Systems are fractals, fractals are plants, plants are infinitely repeatable patterns.
We are infinite.
