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Abstract art: beauty and meaning are in the eyes of the beholder.
Compositional generative art: generated from a (compositional) formula that precisely specifies the visuals. [Note "compositional": generative AI fails miserably on the "compositionality problem", but these are compositional at their core.]
Evolvotron: the name of the Linux package I use to explore a vast space of formulas and their visualizations. Created by Tim Day. Images/videos are the equivalent of snapshots taken of specific scenaries that I explore using Evolvotron, except that I save the formula ("function") or the image or video frames. The formulas may be rendered (visualized) at arbitrary precision and as images or as animations as well as for flat display or for projection onto the inside or the outside of a sphere (or egg or other shape).
Variety: I emphasize the vast variety of beautiful and interesting works of art that my explorations unearth, so to speak, by posting discoveries from different evolvotron sessions on different dates each time. However, during each such session I actually explore and snap variations on a particular theme that characterizes a particular small region of the vast total space of art that I explore overall.
Complexity: with compositionality (see above) comes complexity, and most of the art I post is highly complex, composed of dozens of transformations in a complex structure, because I like complex patterns. However, complexity is a continuum, and evolvotron will show both high complexity and relatively simply structured images, and sometimes I will take a snapshot of what I consider an example of simple elegance.
What do *you* see? I have posted quite a few works here that I personally "saw" as landscapes, seascapes, or cloudscapes, for example, and will "position" the viewpoint and perspective for the "snapshot" accordingly, but that is actually quite rare overall. However, I strongly subscribe to the view that beauty and the meaning of art are in the eyes of the beholder, and leave almost all Untitled. One of the most interesting things about this type of art is to discover what you, the beholder, "see" as you observe a work.
And in that spirit: Enjoy the view!