Raising Funds for War Child UK Sustainable and circular • Six algorithmic drawings
Hi, I'm Dylan. What's all this about?
Five years ago, I set a tiny, low-powered computer in motion running 24/7 to create a set of weirdly abstract computer-generated drawings. The algorithm (CLIPDraw) repeatedly tweaked and juggled initially random sets of drawn curves to try to match image captions. The randomness and limited constraints resulted in interesting abstract images that captured the essence of the subject with an often muddled, dream-like broken structure.
It was also slow — running 24/7, it generated just a handful of images each day — but that meant I highly valued each image, quirks and all. Each piece was published live on visplastica.com ↗ as soon as it was created. In December 2021, I set it on a 36-day task to generate Christmas-themed images, resulting in 197 unique studies. That was the end of that.
I'm raising funds for the most vulnerable and innocent victims of war worldwide — children — via War Child UK. I am selling six hand-selected Christmas designs from the collection via Teemill. 100% of my earnings from each sale goes to War Child (see for details), who work with children and families in conflict-affected countries to protect, educate, support mental health, and stand up for their rights when they need it most.
I chose Teemill because their ethics are second to none: they use solar power to mill organic cotton and design their clothes to be remade into new products — a circular process.
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