chromatic algorithms

Digital Art

35 live sketches after Carolyn L. Kane's Chromatic Algorithms: synthetic color, video ghosts, living chemistry, workflow lattices, impossible hues, and a few screens that feel mildly haunted.

#012026 / WebGL Shader

◎POST-OPTIC FIELDChromakey green pretending to be a color. Really, it's a trapdoor.

#022026 / Canvas 2D

◇SYNTHETIC SPECTRUMA little cabinet of impossible color: stygian, luminous, imaginary, and slightly rude to the eye.

#032026 / CSS + Canvas

▤DIRT STYLEDither, macroblocks, dead pixels, bad compression. The ugly bits get to stay.

#042026 / WebGL Shader

◉INFRARED VISIONSA false-color fever dream. Heat leaks through the scene like a secret.

#052026 / Canvas 2D

⬡BELL LABS ECHOA nod to the plotter people: sparse lines, phosphor glow, machines trying to draw.

#062026 / Canvas 2D

≋FLOW STATEThousands of particles following one quiet rule until the whole thing starts breathing.

#072026 / Gray-Scott

◌REACTION DIFFUSIONTwo virtual chemicals find a pattern no one drew. Touch the surface and a new colony wakes up.

#082026 / Canvas 2D

⌬KOLAM WORKFLOWA mirrored dot lattice keeps reconnecting itself like a workflow that repairs while it runs.

#092026 / Canvas 2D

❋RECURSIVE DREAMSFractals you can fall into. Click once and the math starts pulling you down.

#102026 / WebGL Shader

◈CHROMATIC NOISENoise warped until it looks almost mineral. The palette is doing more work than it admits.

#112026 / Web Audio + Canvas

✦DIGITAL SENSORIUMA visual instrument with FM synthesis under the hood. It twitches when it sings.

#122026 / WebGL Shader

◆DARK AGEBlack holes, faint organisms, and light escaping from places that don't owe us any.

#132026 / Canvas 2D

☼DAY-GLO RITUALFluorescent rings and liquid-light ribbons. Pretty, loud, a little chemical.

#142026 / Canvas 2D

▣SIMULTANEOUS CONTRASTThe same blue square keeps changing its mind because the room around it changes first.

#152026 / Canvas 2D

⌁SIGNAL BLOOMA video synth garden: Lissajous lines, phosphor ghosts, and scanlines blooming in the dark.

#162026 / Growth Grammar

⌁APPRENTICE GARDENSmall procedural shoots learn the shape of a larger system.

#172026 / Parametric Spiral

◎DELIBERATE PRACTICEA spiral repeats the same move until error turns into rhythm.

#182026 / Cellular Lattice

▦CAPABILITY LATTICEA grid of skills lights up as adjacent capabilities become reachable.

#192026 / Recursive Branching

✣MEMORY ORCHARDBranches preserve old signal while making room for new fruit.

#202026 / Stream Field

≋OPERATIONAL RIVERWork packets move downstream, merge, split, and keep their direction.

#212026 / Radial Feedback

✺FEEDBACK BLOOMEvery correction becomes a petal around the next attempt.

#222026 / Graph Field

✦CRAFT CONSTELLATIONSeparate points of craft pull themselves into a navigable sky.

#232026 / Heat Field

▰REFINEMENT FORGENoisy ore becomes clean signal under repeated heat.

#242026 / Nested Spiral

◡QUIET COMPOUNDINGA small signal adds itself to yesterday until the field changes.

#252026 / Guided Particles

◈MENTOR FIELDOlder paths bend younger paths without taking away their motion.

#262026 / Step Lattice

▥SKILL LADDEREach rung appears only after the rung below it carries weight.

#272026 / Root System

⌘RESILIENT ROOTSThe visible crown is only possible because hidden roots keep negotiating.

#282026 / Procedural Weave

⌂CATHEDRAL WEAVEMany small arches agree on a larger structure.

#292026 / Growth Grammar

◍SEED TO SYSTEMOne point becomes a grammar, then a field, then a habit.

#302026 / Radial System

◉MASTERY RINGSConcentric attempts record years of pressure and correction.

#312026 / Particle Training

⋱SIGNAL APPRENTICESTiny agents copy the master curve, fail, correct, and rejoin.

#322026 / Terrain Field

▱HORIZON TERRAFORMA flat plane learns ridges, paths, and places to stand.

#332026 / Constraint Swarm

✧SWARM DISCIPLINEMany bright points move freely until a shared constraint gives them form.

#342026 / Signal Gates

◇GOLDEN HANDOFFA task passes through gates, changing color each time it becomes clearer.

#352026 / Rule Graph

☷LIVING PLAYBOOKRules branch, rejoin, and update without losing the spine.

after carolyn l. kane's chromatic algorithms