king talk

One of the most interesting aspects of generative art for me is when the outcomes of your code reach a point where the underlying mathematical and logical concepts are completely obscured and the image or animation stands entirely for itsself. This is what happened with the third iteration of my logspots / colorspots experiments. The outcome: re-birth. A set of images where even I as the creator have problems with understanding.

Unfortunately, this also leads to sort of a problem. I sometimes create hundreds of versions of my code when experimenting. Afterwards, when I select which versions are suitable for further refinement, I’m often having a hard time reproducing how exactly the code worked at this particular time. So, if anyone has any special techniques or tools to keep track of a ton versions of code, I’d appreciate any suggestions.