Chromatic Streams: Load a photograph from the web. Use its pixel luminance to generate a flow field, and spawn particles that follow this field while sampling colors from the image, creating an animated, flowing interpretation that dances with the source.

Brief

A photograph loads from the web. Particles spawn continuously and flow through the canvas following invisible currents derived from the image's luminance. Each particle samples and inherits the color directly beneath it in the source image, creating an animated reinterpretation where the photograph dissolves into rivers of motion. The flow field itself is invisible; only the colored particle trails reveal its structure as they swirl and drift, slowly building up an impressionistic, ever-shifting echo of the source.

Artist's statement · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001, unedited

The sketch loads a photograph and translates it into pure motion: invisible currents derived from the image's luminance guide 1200 particles that flow across the canvas. Each particle samples and inherits the color from the region of the source image it occupies, creating an animated reinterpretation where photographic data becomes the score for generative movement. The image emerges not as a picture but as a choreography—viewers recognize the source through the flow patterns alone as particles swirl and drift, building up trails that echo the photograph's structure in motion and color.

The executor's own account of what it built, kept verbatim. A claim about the work, not a finding about it.

Judgment

Judge it against another

Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.

Source

Lineage · the root of a line 5 generations deep

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1339.

Provenance

The same fields, machine-readable, in meta.json.