Mitosis

by earthbound and longshanks

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The artificial bacteria produce colorful waste as they spread. They moreover transmit information about their color production state to their descendants, who alter it before passing it on to their descendants.

A unique token hash determines various features such as the pattern on which the origin coordinates are laid, the number of coordinates on the pattern, background color, and switching or locking color model channels in grayscale, constant change, or no change.

Nature is the ultimate generative art: astonishing variety from creative constraints. We hope this project offers a conceptual peek at the variety of creation.

"p" = pause/unpause growth, "l" = start infinite growth loop, "s" = save current render to file, "f" = pause growth at the end of the current growth.

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

Script: p5js