30 intricate generative organisms
Explore all Living forms edition 0501 / 30
The Centipede
The tiny formula by @yuruyurau that started the experiment.
CrawlersUndulating
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LIVE / CANVAS
Whole-body motion / drawn liveRUNNING
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Open recipe / selected work
Recreate
the motion.
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The Centipede
The original two-line p5.js formula, preserved exactly as shared by @yuruyurau.
PARAMETRIC OUTPUTCENTIPEDE
a=(y,d=mag(k=(4+cos(i/9-t*2))*cos(i/35),e=y/7-13)+sin(e/9+t/2)-4)=>point((q=2*sin(k*3)-y/35*k*(9+k*sin(cos(e)*9-d*2+t)))+40*cos(c=d-t)+200,q*sin(c)+d*35)
t=0,draw=$=>{t||createCanvas(w=400,w);background(9).stroke(w,96);for(t+=PI/80,i=1e4;i--;)a(i/235)}Genome / constants
- 10,000 points
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- t advances by π / 80
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- 400 × 400 canvas
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Not animals.
Not machines.
Edition five trades imitation for suggestion. Each work begins with a coherent body plan—symmetry, segmentation, membranes, filaments, colonies—then lets nonlinear waves deform it into unfamiliar life.
Layered point fields hold several rhythms at once: internal pulses, whole-body drift, chromatic echoes, interference, folding, and growth. Organic enough to feel alive; abstract enough to stay strange.
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The collection
30 experiments in view