From poetry through pottery, music, and interior decoration, many traditional Japanese artforms share a similar inspiration in wabi-sabi, that is, the aesthetic celebration of impermanence and imperfection. In the case of the former, it manifests itself elegantly as haikus, hyper-short poems often characterized by their usage of 17 syllables divided between three Zenlike phrases. With Visual Code Poems, self-described "sound artist and VLF explorer" Dan Tapper takes Zen poetry and haiku one step further, using programs like Processing to morph the mediums into gorgeous, generative code-based art.
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Explains Tapper, "The artworks explore visualising mathematical concepts such as PI and Theta, the manipulation of color palettes extracted from images and glitch art." The result is a daily-updated collection of complex-yet-cohesive code-created images that celebrate the fleeting finitude of nature.Enjoy a few of Tapper's creations below, and head over to Visual Code Poems to enjoy his growing collection of poetry-inspired code art.
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