Boltzmann
Bachelor's degree project / Randomly generated visuals
We fear disorder and wish for order. We go after the trouble makers of society.
We would rather have our bedroom, our office or our paperwork in a state of order rather than one of disorder.
But are we really able to be objective about our notions of order and disorder ?
Can we find a way to generate ordered disorder and represent it visually ?
The Boltzmann method answers this question by enabling the generation of an image from a single computer file with
Bachelor's degree project / Randomly generated visuals
We fear disorder and wish for order. We go after the trouble makers of society.
We would rather have our bedroom, our office or our paperwork in a state of order rather than one of disorder.
But are we really able to be objective about our notions of order and disorder ?
Can we find a way to generate ordered disorder and represent it visually ?
The Boltzmann method answers this question by enabling the generation of an image from a single computer file with
an algorithm based on random components.
First of all randomly generated images are arranged in an orderly fashion, then the file is converted to numbers using
First of all randomly generated images are arranged in an orderly fashion, then the file is converted to numbers using
a cryptographic hashing function called SHA-1.
This method lies at the border between determinism and randomness, and can then be applied to many fields such as music artwork depending on the soundfile, a book cover based on the text it contains, a t-shirt depending on the name
This method lies at the border between determinism and randomness, and can then be applied to many fields such as music artwork depending on the soundfile, a book cover based on the text it contains, a t-shirt depending on the name
of the person wearing it…
For further informations, please read the 4th chapter of my book.
For further informations, please read the 4th chapter of my book.
Nous craignons le désordre et désirons l’ordre.
Pour plus de détails vous pouvez lire le chapitre 4 de mon livre.
Nous pourchassons, dans la vie sociale, les fauteurs de désordre.
Nous préférons une chambre, un bureau ou des papiers en ordre plutôt qu’en désordre.
Or est-on en mesure de donner aux notions d’ordre et de désordre un contenu objectif ?
Peut-on trouver un moyen ordonné de générer du désordre et de le représenter visuellement ?
La méthode Boltzmann répond à cette question en permettant de générer une image unique en fonction d’un fichier informatique à partir d’un algorithme reposant sur des composantes aléatoires.
D’un côté des images générées aléatoirement sont agencées de manière ordonnée et de l’autre côté le fichier est converti en chiffres en utilisant une fonction de hachage cryptographique appelée SHA-1.
Cette méthode à la frontière entre le déterminisme et le hasard peut alors être appliquée à de multiples domaines
tels que des pochettes de musique dépendant du fichier mp3, une couverture de livre en fonction du texte qu’il contient,
un t-shirt en fonction du nom de la personne qui le porte…
Pour plus de détails vous pouvez lire le chapitre 4 de mon livre.
Introduction video
The Boltzmann book
This book talks about the chaos theory in the first chapter, then it introduces some artists who use disorder in their projects, and finally I explain how the Boltzmann method works in details.
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The Boltzmann generator
Music artworks
All of these were generated using the mp3 file of the song.
All of these were generated using the mp3 file of the song.
Thank you for trying to understand !
