Spiegelmaschine
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The Spiegelmaschine project aims to provide an interactive model between painter and machine. The Spiegelmaschine is trained on 1000 paintings by Steffen Terk.
An interface provides the ability to generate large numbers of random paintings that look like Steffen went into overdrive.
The Spiegelmaschine even has its own Twitter account, so be sure to follow the machine, if you are interested.
Try the Spiegelmaschine
The images above are static, but the idea behind the Spiegelmaschine is interactive: a machine that mirrors and multiplies an artist’s visual language. The toy below is a small, self-contained homage — a seeded kaleidoscope. Change the symmetry order, complexity, seed, and palette, or press Regenerate for a new composition. The same seed always produces the same image.
Kaleidoscope with 6-fold mirror symmetry, 24 shapes, palette “Terracotta”, seed 12345.
How to use it: adjust the controls to change the composition; Regenerate picks a new random seed and Reset restores the defaults. The composition is deterministic — the same seed and settings always produce the same image.
