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cubes: this is about cubes

I have been working on and off of this project for eleven years now.
This is another example of a spontaneously formed structure that can expand indefinitely in all directions. It is based on a dream I had - vague rooms formed by multi-coloured cubes.

The initial 3D model is constructed in Blender and then imported to three.js where it resides on my website as an app, here: https://robgillthings.net/projects/cubes/01-six-colour-building/3d-web-app/

You can move it around, zoom, pan, etc.. Also, if you press the 'p' key, playback of the construction of the structure - the order that the cubes were created in - will start.

What you see in this video is a fly-through animation created in Blender.
As of March 15, 2024, this is the current state of the model. I will continue adding to it indefinitely until Blender and/or my website is unable to handle the size of the model. I am at 1370 cubes right now and the software is running fine - not significantly slower.

The arrangement of the cubes is based on a simple 'embodied' algorithm. I say embodied because the algorithm is not defined by code but is implemented physically by me when I add cubes manually (in Blender) - generative art. The rules are simple: create vague rooms, no two adjacent cubes may be the same colour, and try to distribute the colours evenly throughout but without any pattern. Like almost all of my work, this is an expression of noise - the noise of consciousness, creative activity, psyche, living presence.

I have many prints and some large scale (3 x 1.5 meters) paintings which you will find here:
https://things.robgillthings.net/collections/cubes

This project is far from over. While you can examine the model online and play back the creation, I have not even begun the 'analysis' part of the project. That is where I will be applying various processes to the material to reveal different aspects of the creative content encoded in the structure. You will find these results on my website at the links provided and I will be posting future update videos here on my YouTube channel.

The audio is a composition that you will find on an upcoming album.

cubes project page:
https://robgillthings.net/projects/cubes/

cubes prints and paintings:
https://things.robgillthings.net/collections/cubes

online app:
https://robgillthings.net/projects/cubes/01-six-colour-building/3d-web-app/


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