Generative art and music by R1B2.https://www.r1b2.com/https://www.r1b2.com/2024/05/31/fit-walkthrough-circle-packing-noise-fields-and-joe-jackson/https://www.r1b2.com/2024/05/31/fit-walkthrough-circle-packing-noise-fields-and-joe-jackson/My new project “Fit” is minting as a free open edition on Base, for the entire month of June 204. Get yours here. As I was listening to Joe Jackson’s song “Fit”, the line “Square pegs in square holes” hit home and gave me the idea to ‘fit’ square shapes on a canvas in a […]Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 GMTwalkthroughhttps://www.r1b2.com/2023/11/25/making-of-circle-of-life/https://www.r1b2.com/2023/11/25/making-of-circle-of-life/This week I finally released my “Circle Of Life” project on Alba. The feedback has been unbelievable so far !I have received a lot of questions about the code, in this post I will try to answer the most frequent ones. Inspiration The project got largely inspired by this blog post by Gorilla Sun. “A […]Sat, 25 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMTuncategorizedhttps://www.r1b2.com/2022/11/01/inside-cloverfield/https://www.r1b2.com/2022/11/01/inside-cloverfield/This project was inspired after a summer stay upstate NY, the countryside offering a nice break from the heat of the city. Walking in nature, I happened to look down and see that I was standing on a patch of grass with some clovers. I then had this idea of making a generative piece,…Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTuncategorizedhttps://www.r1b2.com/2022/10/26/the-city-history-and-walkthrough/https://www.r1b2.com/2022/10/26/the-city-history-and-walkthrough/So... after almost giving up, previewing thousands and thousands of iterations, and dreaming of hatched buildings for months... @Laxraven and I have finally released our most ambitious collaboration project to date. Here is, illustrated with (very often awful) WIP pictures, a peek…Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMTuncategorizedhttps://www.r1b2.com/2022/01/28/mining-structures-walkthrough/https://www.r1b2.com/2022/01/28/mining-structures-walkthrough/Laxraven and I just released our collaborative project “Mining Structures” on FxHash. It was a huge success, and I have received many questions about the process and techniques used. Here is a quick walkthrough. The project started with a failure. @Laxraven had posted a beautiful architectural drawing on Twitter, and someone mentioned they would love […]Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTwalkthroughhttps://www.r1b2.com/2021/12/25/ammonites-walkthrough/https://www.r1b2.com/2021/12/25/ammonites-walkthrough/Following the unexpected success of the Ammonites NFT on fxhash, several people have asked me to give more information about my approach for producing this type of generative pieces. So here it is, I’m going to take this image and deconstruct it for you, step by step. 1. The easy part first – the background […]Sat, 25 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMTwalkthrough