Recently I've been particularly interested in biological patterns, and differential growth. My background is in numerical mathematics, not biology. So I have limited knowledge of how biological systems actually work. Even so, I've been experimenting quite a lot with recreating various biological behaviours. Part of the challenge is to try to recreate some pattern or behaviour with as few and as simple rules as possible. Sometimes I manage to recreate the phenomenon I set out to create, and sometimes not. More often than not I get something interesting, even if it is not always what I expected. A Confession In the interest of disclosure I should point out that I sometimes base my work on the ideas that I have seen done elsewhere by a number of other generative artists. Most notably Jared Tarbell and Nervous System. For instance the algorithm I named Orbitals (image below) is very heavily based on Happy Place by Tarbell.

I point this out because I have always found it hard to know where a piece of software—and in my particular case, the images generated by that software—is novel enough to be viewed as a separate work.

Inconvergent I started working with generative algorithms when I was supposed to be studying for my exams at university. For that reason I bought the domain name inconvergent.net, as a joke on me diverging from my studies. The first thing I did was to copy several of Tarbell's algorithms using Javascript/Canvas. After a while I started getting a few other ideas of my own.