Poiesis - A Real-time Generative Artwork

Description from the FutureDeluxe Website & more details at: https://futuredeluxe.com/work/poiesis

How might we design and construct a cinematic model of the cosmos that can be displayed as an ambient and ever-changing generative artwork?

‘Poiesis’ is a privately commissioned real-time generative portal to a dynamically simulated universe. The work is site specific. Viewers of the artwork glimpse unique parts of the cosmos that are generated on the fly exclusively for that moment; from alien worlds to planetary systems, black holes to nebulae and star clusters.

We explored creating procedural 3D voluminous landscapes so that the terrains were not just height maps, but we could’ve created interesting structures or caverns.

One of the systems that I designed was a procedural camera system that would fly through foliage, detecting any obstacles.

Meaning that we could have real-time newly generated camera moves.