Jared Tarbell

JARED TARBELL spoke at the UNM ARTS Lab on December 5, 2024.  He was a co-founder of Etsy, but now is concentrating on generative computer art.

MYSTERY MACHINE

• The talk is posted on Twitch

MYSTERY MACHINE

talk by Jared Tarbell

at the UNM ARTS Lab

Jared Tarbell introducing his talk

Jared Tarbell's websites:

• infinite.center
• complexification.net
• levitated.net
• Etsy
• GitHub

The physical things that Jared has made

"Before you can understand recursion,

you must first understand recursion."

The laser cut 3D maze

A huge generative art printout

Tiny to tinier

Another Mystery Man -- Adric

Doug Harroun and Andrew Stone

came and elevated the event

Jared Tarbell programs in Processing.

Several of his programs are posted on GitHub.

I wondered if I could download one of his programs, to generate some of his art with an online program:

• https://openprocessing.org/sketch/create
• Sketchpad

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Then my mind started wandering.

Jared was working with tessellation artwork -- specifically with just two tiles discovered by Robert Penrose.

Penrose Substitution

Later a single aperiodic monotile was discovered, and we have been working with that for our EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print project.

Jared's talk introduced me to the beautiful patterns of Truchets. 

I found a couple of online Truchet pattern generators:

• Truchet tiles
• Truchet Tile Pattern Mazes  (YouTube)

Then I discovered how to create Truchet patterns with the single aperiodic monotiles.

I wondered if I could translate my drawings into Truchet patterns, but did not have great success in Midjourney (blending one of my drawings with a Truchet pattern).  I probably need to do this more mathematically:

Midjourney 

Midjourney blended my drawing

with a Truchet pattern

UPDATE (December 9, 2024): Julie Hayes was the first to figure out the maze, and therefore won the maze that Jared Tarbell laser cut:

Julie Hayes with the laser-cut maze,

and a tessellation linocut tile