These are a selection of videos from those that can be seen on Vimeo.

The above video was made when making a print for the Leicester Computer Artists exhibition in 2023. I used the current Smallworld program, running on an iMac.

To make a new image to submit to the exhibition “Leicester Computer Artists” I had several attempts at generating shapes to move the virtual camera through, seeking an appropriate composition. I had been asked to submit two works, one from the time that I was working and studying in Leicester and one more recent. Rather than just one image from the past, I combined two, which at the time I had called Prospero and Caliban thinking that I should make a companion piece named Miranda. When making the previous images I had located the light source in the centre of the composition, so to make Miranda I did much the same, placing a spotlight in the centre of the shape. The works exploit the perceptual phenomenon referred to as pareidolia, where people think that they can see something that does not actually exist. I have often sought out these phenomena, after learning of the advice of Leonardo da Vinci when I was at school.

Exhibited in “Art Science and Industry” at the Consort Gallery, Imperial College, London, 1986. A realtime recording onto VHS of images being generated and displayed using the Smallworld suite of programs that I was developing. In the first part ‘animals’ of two species – red and blue – are ‘planted’ and then the program is run and a shape is generated as the paths of the ‘animals’ are recorded. Several versions are run with the same starting positions but the ‘speed’ characteristic of the red species is altered each time. The final part shows the result of one red ‘animal’ chasing and ‘eating’ 26 of the blue species. To indicate passage of time the trails change colour over their length. The red species trail gradually changes from red through orange to yellow for example.
Developed and displayed on Silicon Graphics IRIS workstations using C and IRIS GL.