Xtrusion - 2/2/2023
A long form generative art project.
In the classic novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abott, the characters are geometric figures living in a world of two dimensions. The novella explores two main themes in parallel, a satire of Victorian culture and physical dimensions. It’s the latter the concerns us here. The narrator, a square, comes to believe in the existence of a third dimension, but can’t concieve of it until he is taken to the thrid dimension by a sphere. In Xtrusion two-dimensional curves, give the illusion of existing in a three-dimensional space. Xtrusion is a series of long form generative art pieces that explores the themes of limited perspective and expanded view of the world. This series utilizes extruded curves and unique color gradients to convey its central ideas.
There is also a webapp that will draw a random Xtrusion each time the m key is pressed. A control panel is
activated by pressing the c key.