Protobytes

Artificial life by Ira Greenberg

Color studies / ProtoCel

Life, drawn differently.

Inherited form becomes an illustrated encounter in color, contour, and movement.

Chordozoa luminosa in ProtoCel
Chordozoa luminosa · retained development specimen

Begin with luminosa.

Open the same retained specimen seen in the portrait study. Explore its motion and change how it is framed. The color studio keeps its input genome and available identity while making its own visual interpretation.

Enter the color studio

Read this specimen’s story and source ↗

A still study is shown here so the work remains available when an interactive renderer cannot run.

One life. Many forms.

Discover the relationship between the portrait, illustration, and source record.

Follow the specimen

Explore the studios.

Paper, blocks, ink, color, and portraiture each introduce a different way of attending to computational form.

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