Fire 🎨🕹️

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Furnace

Combustion Studies

Fire, Part 1
Fire, Part 2
Fire, Part 3
Fire, Part 4

Fire is a smear of layers.

This piece emerges from recursive distortion of polygons, accumulating geometry until it flickers like a digital combustion. Two opposing forces bloom into the same space:

  • one searing, one cool
  • one dissolving, one devouring

The algorithm wasn't built to choose sides.

  • Date: 2024
  • Tools: p5.js, recursive vertex shifting, screen-blend geometry rendering
  • Process: Opposed bloom systems layered with dynamic parameters
  • Iterations: 33
  • Artifacts: Polygon identity crises