PX-77 IMAGE DEGENERATOR — ANTON MATZKAIM

seed same algorithm, same knobs — a new cast of the dice

▸ input

algorithm

graft: a second picture folded in by chance, not by blend mode

↥ SECOND

nothing folded in yet

works over a synth frame and over a photo alike. the fold is thrown fresh on every render, so the same picture never lands twice: bake the one worth keeping and the baked frame becomes the new ground for the next fold.

▸ degeneration — the data itself, eaten by algorithms

switch on as many as you like — they run as a chain in the order shown, and every operator bites as hard as its own slider says

▸ spread — how far the seed may wander on each knob

a slider does not set the value — it opens the gate. at 0 the knob sits near its tame middle; wind it up and the seed is free to throw it anywhere in the wild range. widen the ones you want surprises from, hold the rest still, and the same seed keeps giving you a different picture on exactly the axes you chose

▸ film: live motion eats the picture

↥ VIDEO

decompose

load a video or start the camera, pick a mode, and the motion decomposes the picture. PULL drags it, FEED bleeds the live texture in. ⏺ records to a video file

▸ controls

size — longest side, a photo never grows past its own

chaos — all the spreads at once

colour

same seed + same controls = the same image, always · a link is a save file — except the photo, which is too big to ride along