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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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William Baboon

Anton Hoyer — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 20:00:00 +0000

The idea for this project originated from the novel “Naked Lunch” by William S. Burroughs. As a vanguard of the Beat generation, it is by far the most provocative, explicit, surreal, trippy, and chopped-up book I ever read (although not the most incoherent; that prize goes to “Finnegan’s Wake”). Particularly, it contains the quote, “Confusion […]

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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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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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