CHRISTA SOMMERER / LAURENT MIGNONNEAU
INTERACTIVE PLANT GROWING
"The rate of growth deserves to be studied as a necessary preliminary to the theoretical study of form, and organic form itself is found, mathematically speaking, to be a function of time. (...) We might call the form of an organism an event in space-time, and not merely a configuration in space."(D'Arcy Thompson, On Growth and Form, Cambridge University Press, 1942.)
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It may be thought as a biosystem created by acomputer.
In this thoroughly new ecosystem, which evolved in the digital world of a computer, live various imaginary creatures was made by me with a computer.
In the process of creating them I decide only the major points; the other details are drawn by the computer itself. For example, I roughly decide that there will be six to seven globes around a globe, and then wildly transform the data of each globe. Even I cannot guess the final image. Of course, it's I who operate the computer, but there is some scope governed by the computer in which I am interested.
