art · Living Systems
An ongoing body of computational work exploring how simple local behaviours become collective form.
I'm Simon, a founding engineer at SwiftKitchen.
I make art from living systems, code my own
tools, and occasionally write.
tool · Sevro
A non-destructive node-based procedural image processing sandbox directly in the browser.
Using React with canvas, WebGL and custom renderers.
How I use React UI library with Javascript rendering engines, handling the difficulties of making reactive UI and OOP WebGL canvas engines work togethers.
Taste is the last commodity for artists in the AI age
Generative AI is eating into the skillset of traditional artists, but it doesn't really matter. The taste economy is here.
art · Explorations in Vellum
A 2021 series of soft-body simulations exploring how simple material rules produce intricate, organic forms.
tool · PixelMap
A small pixel-art map-making tool built for my own Dungeons & Dragons campaigns.
The emergence of LLM sympathy in our codebases
With the rise of LLM code generation, how are we these tools shaping the way that we work?
What makes a good explanation & how to make better decisions.
How can we responsibly use data to make good predictions? What separates good theories from bad ones?
art · Fragments
A 2021 shader study imagining the parallel processing hidden inside a rendered image.
tool · IsoDraw
A small vector drawing tool for creating precise illustrations, used to craft my personal branding and logo.
The continued success of my excessively decoupled React SPA architecture
I use an unconventional React SPA architecture to great success. Here I share the details of the architecture and the reasons behind it.
How I built a barebones WebGL PBR renderer in Nodes.io
This article describes how I implemented a PBR renderer with image based lighting in Nodes.io.
art · Organised Reality - Generative art and source code
This article shows a basic script for some generative art you can make in the browser
Algorithms, Elves and Recycling. Not every idea has to be original.
Learning any artistic skill feels like a loss of innocence. An exploration of what studying Tolkien taught me about creating art.