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Cellularity Deep Dive 2

Jonathan McCabe

Cellularity Deep Dive 2

Generative art
Meditative
Abstract

In this work a discrete dynamical reaction-diffusion system produces dots and stripes in an expanding space. The dynamics depend on the history of the system, giving expanding regions of different patterns. It is partly inspired by inflationary theories of cosmology where the galaxies we see today were caused by tiny (in size) fluctuations in energy that were exponentially expanded in the early history of the universe.

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landscape

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generative art

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04:00

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2026

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Jonathan McCabe

Australia

Jonathan McCabe is a generative visual artist who lives in Canberra Australia with his partner Kate and son Redmond. He is interested in theories of spontaneous pattern formation in the natural world and their application to art and design. He writes old-fashioned computer programs that output images, looks at the results, becomes dissatisfied, then tinkers with the programs and runs them again, over a period of decades.

He studied at the Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology and obtained a Master of Electronic Arts in 2000. His work has been featured in Wired, New Scientist, Scientific American and Smithsonian magazines. He has worked for Aesop, Cirque du Soleil, Expo 2020, Imagine Dragons, and others. He has exhibited at Kate Vass Galerie, Zurich. He collaborated with Oleg Pashkovsky and Knot (Portland, Oregon) on a large-scale interactive work “Morphogenesis” installed at the Bass Biology Building at Stanford University in 2019.

Cellularity Deep Dive 2

technique

generative art

format

landscape

duration

04:00

year

2026

Transport

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