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Jeffrey Ventrella @ventrella.bsky.social · 22h

Tomorrow - live from Binghamton: me and a bunch of particles. (Thank you Hiroki Sayama for hosting me :)

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Jeffrey Ventrella @ventrella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I will be presenting my particle system soon! coco.binghamton.edu/jeffrey-vent...

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Jeffrey Ventrella @ventrella.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

These wandering particles will soon guide the evolution of gliders in cellular automata. I will present this research at Binghamton University for Hiroki Sayama's CoCo seminar on September 30: coco.binghamton.edu #complexity #particle #swarm #evolution

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Brainfilling Curves @fractalcurves.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Space-filling trees inside the Koch Snowflake sweep. #fractal #art #math #design #insideout

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Brainfilling Curves @fractalcurves.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Your eyebrain cannot see both at the same time. Practice seeing blue as the foreground with yellow as the background and then switch to seeing yellow as the foreground with blue as the background and then try to make your eyebrain toggle between them rapidly. #fractal #design #illusion #math

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Jeffrey Ventrella @ventrella.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Canton and I had a blast doing generative animations on fxhash (which recently went bye-bye :( Here's an archive: killedbyapixel.github.io/fxhashViewer...

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just an appreciation post for this guy. The COVID pandemic would have been far worse without Dr. Fauci's decades of experience as guidance through it. Had he been working under an adult president and not the child that presided over 2020, he would have saved even more lives without having to contend

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Jeffrey Ventrella @ventrella.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I just updated swimbots.com with a link to the browser version of Darwin's Chorus: www.swimbots.com/darwins-chor... It's built on Gene Pool. Works best on a fast computer. Canton Becker did the heavy lifting. (Not for mobile). There's also a video about it. Take a look! #alife #evolution

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Brainfilling Curves @fractalcurves.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I made this design last night. It expresses the watershed of a self-avoiding fractal curve I discovered. I might include it in my new book (coming out in a little over a year). Then again, there are more than 1,400 to choose from: I make at least one design every evening. #fractal #curve #math #art

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Jeffrey Ventrella @ventrella.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is a self portrait I made years ago. I used an image of my head as a reference for a genetic algorithm that evolves mathematically unsavory tweaks to the Mandelbrot set. I called it "Mandeltweak" in front of the man himself during a presentation. He was in the audience...snoring. I laugh now.

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Brainfilling Curves @fractalcurves.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This image shows a discovery of mine: how plane-filling curves of the same family tessellate with each other. I plan to get to the bottom of this and describe it in my new book, "Brainfillers: the Art and Math of Space-filling Fractal Curves". It will be published next year by A.K Peters/CRC Press!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Brainfilling Curves @fractalcurves.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is called "Organelles". #fractal #design #art #math #blobflake

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Jeffrey Ventrella @ventrella.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My artificial life simulation GenePool has been evolving for decades (in the sense of having gone through so many iterations), as well as these little wigglers mating and passing their genes into the future. Darwin's Chorus is the latest: Canton Becker turned it into a Darwinian musical instrument!

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Jeffrey Ventrella @ventrella.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is a portrait of me by Gary Walker which he vibe-coded. It reconstructs a photo using generative geometry. Squint or look from far away.

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Jeffrey Ventrella @ventrella.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Working on a video about Darwin's Chorus at Currents New Media in Santa Fe last month - coming soon. Another collab between me and Canton. We had an awesome time.

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Jeffrey Ventrella @ventrella.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Thoughtful artists who use AI acknowledge that authorship is distributed: creative control is not absolute. My art is similar but ONLY in that I am not the sole author. I do not share authorship with products made by AI corporations. I share authorship with dynamical systems and chaos.

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Brainfilling Curves @fractalcurves.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This is my latest watershed fractal curve design. #art #math

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Jeffrey Ventrella @ventrella.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"Good, Bad, and Ugly": a recent artwork of mine is in a show at Sebastopol Center for the Arts.

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Brainfilling Curves @fractalcurves.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This is called "Gosper Watershed". I'm working on another watershed - it's part of a slow learning process to understand the dual relationship between space-filling curves and space-filling trees.

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