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Billennium

Anton Hoyer — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Background This cellular automaton is a gift for my sister, who wanted art for her birthday. For the sole reason of being cryptic, I hid the easter egg ⓝⓐⓝⓞⓒⓛⓞⓤⓣ in there, meaning “tiny influence,” a reference to her moniker on Instagram. However, Billennium also is heavily inspired by a previous ant colony simulation I developed […]

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Antomaton

Anton Hoyer — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +0000

This project was intended as a code snippet for my landing page but eventually became the entire site. The latter formerly featured a list of my interests, which felt a bit plain to me, given the exposure; that it shamelessly listed several private interests of mine, such as ASMR, parenting, or politics, did not help […]

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Effervescence

Anton Hoyer — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Penner’s pretext: We’d’ve preferred the present/perfect tense, plenty letters except “E” et “Y” & plenty “Q” terms except “QWERTY” et “Q’d.” Nevertheless, these sentences were penned w/verve, hence the endless between-references where we erred. Never merely seek the expected, yet be perplexed, test thy self-exerted tenets, then tweet cheesy/lewd excerpts, eh?—Kelly Greendell Remember the week […]

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Abram 2 Zachary

Anton Hoyer — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:00:00 +0000

🐋 Aubrey’s body cannot decay extraterrestrially; fucking ground hogs — I’m joking — key locations match not “our perpetrator’s questionable reasoning”; savor the unemployment, Vegas wins; xoxo, your Zachary. 🐧 Amiable brother! Canadian Deutsch, “einem frère geht’s how?” I juggle knowledge, language mostly now… onto promising quests ’round summerly Texas, Us versus We? Xenophonely yours, […]

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WordLoom

Anton Hoyer — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:00:00 +0000

The idea for this project originated when I saw an elderly person on the train solving a word search puzzle. Not that I am into this kind of time killer, but I immediately asked myself how these puzzles could be created automatically with maximum word density. And when I say maximum, I mean, how to […]

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QRfypx

Anton Hoyer — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:20:00 +0000

Introduction QR codes are weird, efficient, and ingenious. But the same is said of the Japanese, who invented them. With more humble intentions, I started this project with the idea of rearranging the dark and bright regions of an image to encode information. You can see one of the first attempts below. In this case, […]

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JunkBlender

Anton Hoyer — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:00:00 +0000

If you are artistically inclined like me, you probably know this feeling: You are trying to sleep, but suddenly, an idea pops up. It tells you how to do something particular. It does not tell you what for. You fail at imagining what the result will look like. You wonder whether others have had the […]

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Delaunay Explosion

Anton Hoyer — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000

This little accident happened while I was developing a MATLAB script for my dissertation. The script was intended to model the positions of abrasive filaments based on an experimentally measured 2D pointset. In particular, I examined the histogram of distances between neighboring filaments. To achieve this, I computed the Delaunay triangulation of the pointset, a […]

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ClayGrinder

Anton Hoyer — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 20:00:00 +0000

After stumbling upon the website of Tyler Hobbs and his work with flow fields, I was inspired to code this generative algorithm. Essentially, flow fields are tables of numbers that instruct a collection of lines to bend, similar to how a magnetic field shapes iron dust into patterns. I used the Processing coding language, which […]

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Magots

Anton Hoyer — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0000

“Magots” is a tool designed for quickly generating filler images with appealing colors and interesting patterns. It can be viewed as an enhanced version of my previous tool, “Flagots,” but with a maximum number of boxes. However, it is much easier to explain: for each row of pixels in the input image, the mean value […]

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Flagots

Anton Hoyer — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 20:00:00 +0000

“Flagots” is a tool designed for quickly generating filler images with appealing colors. Contrary to public assumptions, its name is not derived from a derogatory term for homosexuals but from “fagot,” which means “a bundle of sticks used as fuel,” as well as the word “flag” in its original sense, meaning “a piece of fabric […]

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DEEP FL0YD

Anton Hoyer — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:00:00 +0000

⚠️ WARNING: The videos on this page use rapidly changing visual patterns and may cause seizures in some viewers. Some videos may also contain traces of profanity, violence, porn, inside jokes, floyds, glitches, and pseudo-randomness. Be sure to watch in 1440p because any lower resolution will look like crap. Also, please install uBlock Origin because […]

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Spyrals

Anton Hoyer — Wed, 23 May 2018 20:00:00 +0000

“Spyrals” is a MATLAB script that produces colorful building block towers. The dimensions of the bottom block are randomly chosen, and then a random number of blocks are stacked on top, slightly rotating each while simultaneously decreasing their dimensions. The results range from thin needles to staircases to flat rock structures. Additionally, the random RGB […]

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