processing   july, 2004   j.tarbell

250 x 250 pixels 5 radial guts 500 x 500 pixels 7 radial guts 600 x 600 pixels 11 radial guts

Guts is a composition of many hundreds of gut instances rendered simultaneously in a radial fashion. The gut is a wandering tube like object. Gross, right?

0000 guts instantiated in a radial pattern 0001 guts instantiated in a radial pattern 0002 guts instantiated in a radial pattern 0003 guts instantiated in a radial pattern

1000 layers on layers of guts, radial arrangement with irregularities in thickness

The images below are selected regions of detail within a radial gut rendering similar to above. Although every instance of the gut object uses an identical growth algorithm, a confusing collage emerges.

3000 3001 3002 3003 3004 3005 3006 3007 3008

The gut itself is drawn line by line using four specially configured sand stroke objects (see Sand Stroke). The curvy growth pattern is calculated using several additive sinusoidal waves and an irregular progression through time.

2000 guts arranged arbitrarily with inward folding bias

e0000 undesired stretching e0001 i don't know what these guts were doing e0002 guts are allowed to grow randomly

Early versions of Guts used a pursuit algorithm similar to the Travelers (see City Traveler, Sand Traveler) although this produced odd shapes.