42 bits of Starlight, 2025

42 bits of Starlight is a series of 42 artworks celebrating light, color, space, randomness and chance. It's also meant to be a statement against today's self-obsession.

Technically it has a slight reference to Pixel art as I was using 7x7 and 5x5 pixel sized squares for drawing. Unlike in Pixel art I did not limit the color spectrum and made extensive use of color gradients. The varying patterns occur due to the interference of emerging lines, crossing each other at different angles. 


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Annex for a W, 2025

Annex for a W is a curated set of 30 artworks featuring Polygons of different sizes that are transformed by Perlin Noise. The bending that is applied to the Polygons and then accumulated in the picture leads to a multitude of different shapes, that sometimes look funny but often seem to express some form of pain or anger. 

The title for the series stems from the German "Ein X für ein U vormachen"  which in English means to lead someone up the garden path. Since there is no 1:1 translation available and I liked the expression I came up with my own version - An X for a U, or better Annex for a W.

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Antagonist, 2025

I've been working with pendulums for a while back in 2023 and revisited my program code for this series. The physics of pendulums are generating a wide set of different traces and shapes. Their oscillation under different conditions like gravitation, mass and air resistance were recorded by using Chaikin curves. Different colors stand for different weights of an individual pendulum.

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Closure of the Ball Pit, 2025

Closure of the Ball Pit is a series of 100 lightly curated Artworks of which I selected 20 that I liked the most. It's an exercise in finding a balance between order and chaos, contrast and blur, light and shadow.

I have been experimenting with regular and irregular grids and different coloring techniques. For the circles hatching I used different approaches of even and uneven distances between lines and angles derived from Worley noise.    

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Cyclopes, 2025

Cyclopes, the one-eyed creatures from Greek and later Roman mythology are back with tiny eyes, if you look carefully you will find their eyes in every picture at least once. European superheroes ages before Marvel. There is an open question whether they are violent or not. Some are able to fly, a few even able to swim, surely they all have great power. 

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D.o.r.A., 2023

Dictatorship of the right Angle

The title stems from the fact that only one drawing command - rect (Rectangle) - has been used for this series. Different probability distributions have been applied for the arrangements, size and color settings of the rectangles in combination with a periodic function that is using Open Simplex Noise, distance and a few parameters for calculation. The color palettes have been "worked out" in dialogue with Chat GPT.

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Entanglements, 2024

The equations 

x1 = sin(A * y) + C * cos(A * x) 

y1 = sin(B * x) + D * cos(B * y)

angle = atan2(y1 - y, x1 - x)

where A, B, C and D are per-calculated, randomized constants, provide a lot of possibilities for generating different and varying outcomes based on how the formula is used and on how much control over the floating vectors is applied. Combined with different initialization techniques and shapes that transform as a result there is an unlimited space of possible outcomes.  
 

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Festival, 2023

For this series I was experimenting with different color gradient techniques to express a high level of brightness and luminosity whilst covering a wide color spectrum that expresses the spirit and mood of summer outdoor Festivals. 

Trigonometric functions are an obvious choice to achieve some smooth curves. Steep gradients are the result of steep increase functions like exp or tan. 

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Hyper_Neon_Slop, 2025

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Infinite Loops, 2023

Infinite Loops is based on the Pixel Sorting algorithm invented by Kim Asendorf

As Generative Artists know, sometimes accidents happen during the process of creating an artwork and produce some surprising results. Here are my own favorites out of a set of 100+ generated outcomes.

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Latent Space, 2023

In 2023 Generative AI was having its mainstream moment. Out of nowhere (not really) AI’s potential had captured the imaginations of millions. What makes it so different to prior innovations? It dramatically changes the way we interact with computers. And, whereas before, where we were in full control of information technology this time we don’t have the same level of control anymore. This lack of control applies to all actors along the AI food chain. Despite all efforts on AI ethics and explainable AI this is an inherent issue of the technology and there seems to be no silver bullet to resolve it. 

„There is an ironic but highly valuable quality to AI in all its forms. The effort to simulate or surpass human intelligence is uncovering subtleties and paradoxes about the human mind we might never have imagined. By way of heroic failures, AI is teaching us how truly strange real intelligence is.“ (Theodore Roszak – The cult of information)

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Noise and Progress, 2024

A mesh of different noise techniques (Perlin, Simplex, Worley) has been used to manipulate particles of different styles. The scale of noise is driven by factors like brightness and color (hue) values of particles and vice versa which leads to some interesting feedback effects.

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P.o.P.M., 2023

Patterns of Prosperity and Mindfulness

For this series of pictures I created a relatively simple algorithm that produces varying patterns based on math functions of distance and periodicity, combined with Simplex noise, color gradients and some irony. "Karma" belongs to the series, but deserved a separate title since it stood out. A good example how one can get surprised by an algorithm that produces unexpected results. For "In Satoshi we trust" the same algorithm has been used by meshing different layers of its outcome via Poisson Disk Sampling into one picture.

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Randonneur, 2024

Randonneur started as a little side project to my Entanglements work and basically uses similar techniques but less control. My bow to the pedal knights and heroes of the highways on their bicycles. 

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Speranda, 2025

Speranda is latin and has two meanings, 1. to hope for or expect something, 2. to get ready.

Drawing instructions slightly vary box by box, producing from time to time an optical illusion. The range of formed shapes, that sometimes are pretty linear, sometimes more organic shall trigger the viewers imagination.   

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take me to Damagdarut, 2025

„take me to Damagdarut“ is a series of 100 artworks created by one algorithm, featuring flow fields, circle packing, collision detection and pareto distribution. I picked a few of my favorites here. 

The mystical name Damagdarut that inspired me for the title of this series stems from the wonderful book „The Projectionists“ by Clemens Meyer.

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Traces of a random Walk, 2025

In mathematics, a random walk, sometimes known as a drunkard's walk, is a stochastic process that describes a path that consists of a succession of random steps on some mathematical space. For this series I measured the distance to a random walker and mapped it to a periodic function with different multiples of PI, which leads to a surprising level of variance. 

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Unplugged, 2025

Painting with vectors is always fun, just a few points spread over the screen that follow a set of rules and form some lines and curves. The algorithm is using Voronoi Noise with some Perlin Noise applied and does some carefully crafted mapping of the noise scale. In some cases appr. 30% of the vector angles get rounded to either multiples of PI / 2 or PI / 4, which gives it a slightly edgy style. The spines come from a Convex Hull of a set of points that is used for drawing.

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Vibe Shift, 2025

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Wave, 2024

Wave is using a set of big circles of different sizes that slowly move through a flow field. The size of the circles is changing over time which leads to the wavy effect. Different probabilities of the circles opacity cause the blurred effects. 

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Welzow, 2024

This is based on flow fields of different resolution and noise frequency. Two-dimensional arrays of varying size control the flow, the resolution is randomly assigned leading to this specific pattern effect which is metaphoric to the conveyor belts and the landscape erosion.      

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