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Abstract geometric design featuring black angular shapes arranged in a circular pattern on a white background.

Holger Lippmann

 Coding, programming and creating digital and generative art.  Berlin, Germany.

Dense network of thin, leafless tree branches in shades of blue on a white background.

Schneewald #146, January 2023

Generative Art (code with random elements).

SCHNEEWALD is the second release in a row of about 12 tree/flower generative art works, which have come together over the last 10 years.

This project explores an approach to trees with snow using a recursive algorithm and includes Three traits: a density layer for the amount of trees and another layer for the amount snow and a third for how strong the branches bend.

Since I moved to Wandlitz, north of Berlin, in the middle of the “Naturpark Barnim”, in 2003, I’ve done a lot of exploring nearby nature. In addition to the beautiful lake and heath landscapes, I fell in love with the wild acacia forests. These strange trees, sometimes more like huge wild grasses, grow so wildly into each other.

I experienced it in all sorts of seasonal change, packed with snow is definitely among the most amazing!

While playing around with different branching system code snippets, a more and more complex image composition came together. The final script for this project on fx(hash) was finally given more randomness for a wider range of different outputs and an additional random grain filter.

Project link: https://e-art.co/project/schneewald/

Many thanks to jesse (jbird) for the good collaboration, which ultimately made it possible to get this work released.

Project page on fxhash