People use my noise function everywhere. I’ve gotten used to it, and it’s definitely cool to see.<\/p>\n
But every once in a while I am surprised by how it is used. Today, in a set of illustrations to accompany several opinion pieces in the New York Times, it was used by illustrator Sean Dong in a number of inventive ways.<\/p>\n
But the one that jumped out at me was this visual<\/a> for the piece about Capitalism. It was elegantly done, and it also reminded me a lot of some of the earliest things I did with noise back in the day.<\/p>\n His illustration is a morph between the Earth as a sphere, to the Earth as a superquadric<\/a>, to the Earth as a sphere displaced by my noise function. Very simple, very weird, very effective, and very familiar (to me, at least).<\/p>\n I remember creating a very similar sequence in my early experiments with noise. I even eventually ended up printing some of those shapes on a 3D printer.<\/p>\n To the readers of the NY Times his illustration hopefully conveyed the ways that Capitalism can distort our perception of reality. To me it was pure (and delightful) nostalgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People use my noise function everywhere. I’ve gotten used to it, and it’s definitely cool to see. But every once in a while I am surprised by how it is used. Today, in a set of illustrations to accompany several opinion pieces in the New York Times, it was used by illustrator Sean Dong in … Continue reading “Cool use of noise”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24593"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24600,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24593\/revisions\/24600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}