Floral-Falls is a shortlisted public art proposal produced in 2008 for a boredomresearch artwork to be permanently sited in the MetroCentre, Gateshead.

The tower consists of four large screens enclosed in a glass column. Running down the screen will be a steady trickle of naturalistic floral vines generated live by software. The public artwork will harness the possibilities of computational techniques to create a compelling animation of ever changing floral blooms that will never repeat in the lifetime of anyone that sees the work. Unlike its traditional counterpart the abstract digital clock driving and morphing the forms in Floral-Falls will have cycles extending into millennia.

In computer animation we have the ability to combine ideas and qualities from varied sources to create new and unique entities. Floral-Falls will combine the physical motion attributes of water droplets running down a pane of glass with accelerated growth algorithms that have the appearance of time lapse photography. This will be combined with a generative system that will create floral forms. Each individual bloom will be unique and last only for the brief duration that the droplet takes to travel from the top to the bottom of the screen. The software we will develop to create the blooms will have the ability to create countless billions of unique forms that will rival even the diversity of forms found in nature. The system will shift through periods of subtlety and delicacy and also periods of electric vibrancy.

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FloralFalls MetroCentre, Gateshead PDF proposal