AJ Smith · live plate

AJ Smith

Experiments in what a person and an AI can actually make together.

Drag anywhere. You are feeding the plate.

Plate 01 Xenobotany engine reticulate · veins anastomose

Canalisation

Nothing about the plant's shape is drawn.

Auxin — the hormone that tells a plant cell what to become — is simulated directly, and leaf arrangement, veins, petal count and the ripening wave all fall out of it.

Divergence
90–160°, σ 80–100°
Target
137.5° — still won't sit
Dependencies
none

Grow a plant Source

Plate 02 Marble melody machine punctate · colonies divide

Cascade

The melody is authored first. The physics is solved backward from it.

Drop in any MIDI file and the solver places every ramp, bumper and pad so the marbles strike the right notes at the right moment.

Input
any MIDI file
Physics
ballistic, solved per note
Timing error
not yet measured

Open Cascade

Plate 03 Wartime notebook, 1941–1947 stable · does not spread

Musings

Every page read twice, independently, then adjudicated.

My grandfather Anthony S. Jensen carried a pencil notebook from training through the invasion of France, the winter in Alsace, the Rhine, Dachau and Paris.

Pages
43, scanned and transcribed
Reads
2 independent, then adjudicated
Uncertainty
published, not hidden

Read the notebook