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Generating Procedural Art Using Directed Evolution

MSG Evolver, SA TechniquesBy Sean Bryden Leave a comment

My favorite way to work with Studio Artist’s MSG (modular synthesized graphics) capabilities is to create procedural artwork using directed evolution. By procedural i mean that the actual imagery in the artwork is created mathematically from the internal processing in the MSG preset. As opposed to being based on a literal representation from a digital…

Representational Cellular Automata in MSG

MSG EvolverBy Sean Bryden Leave a comment

Studio Artist’s MSG (modular synthesized graphics) has some new cellular automata processors. What’s especially interesting about these is that you can configure them to create representation imagery as well as the flat fractal texture fields you would typically see for this kind of imagery. The mathematics behind cellular automata are particularly fascinating because they create…