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Field
notes.

Where science meets algorithmic art.

Live studies in code, scientific pattern, typography, agent behavior, plotting, and generative form. Open one, change it, and see what the system knows.

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Total Serialism pen plotter specimens arranged as an algorithmic field study
Long-form field note / May 2026

Total
Serialism.

Ninety-eight algorithmic art generators, sixteen families, and one physical constraint: a pen on paper. The complete account of the system, its visual lineage, its failures, and the specimens that survived.

98
Algorithms
16
Families
1
Constraint
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Long-form field note / generative plaid

Tartan
ism.

Six weave structures, forty-eight period-correct dye colors, and a mutation engine that walks the line between generated plaid and authentic Scottish tartan. Where does a threadcount stop being a pattern and start being a clan?

6
Weaves
48
Dye colors
1
Mutation engine
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Generative tartan specimens arranged as a plaid field study
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