Digital Nature

Artistic Research • Generative Flora & Growth • 2022–2024

Radial Phyllotaxis Spherical Cluster Algorithmic Seed Distribution Loop

Inspired by nature — Made with computers.

Flowers have been an inspiration of many if not most artists. In these studies of natural beauty concepts of divine symmetry, natural design and the perceived dissonance that a computer can make romantic images.

Organic Form Blue
Morphological Structure I
Organic Form Orange
Morphological Structure II
Green Botanical Unfolding Procedural Surface Solver

None of these flowers exists, yet in my digital botanical garden, they can.

Botanical Study 1
Botanical Study 2
Botanical Study 3
Yellow Blossom Study 1
Yellow Blossom Study 2
Yellow Blossom Study 3
Yellow Blossom Curvature & Tension Vellum Dynamic Solvers

The challenge in this project was to bypass the feeling of coldness that CG can have and go straight into the romantic ideals that we attribute to flowers.

Flora Macro Study 1
Flora Macro Study 2
Flora Macro Study 3
Green Stratified Foliage
Stratified Foliage Growth
Prismatic Mineral Columns
Prismatic Crystal Columns
Botanical Detail 1
Botanical Detail 2
Botanical Detail 3
Botanical Detail 4
Botanical Detail 5
Botanical Detail 6
Subsurface Scattering & Moisture Studies Microscopic Foliage Formations
Procedural Mushroom Landscape
Mycelial Morphology Mushrooms & Nature-born Geometry

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