Whilst looking through some old archives of work (and also the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive) I re-found a gif that I made for my very first polaine.com website. I remember wanting to create something quite different and I rendered this out (of After Effects of all things) by accident.

I put it on my homepage and everyone always assumed it was some kind of artificial life thing I had carefully coded. Actually I think it was some blurry squares that got munged when the gif was created. I still like it though, and it’s a good example of simple accidents turning out interesting results.

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