Jeff Palmer is a generative artist and data visualizer who spent over twenty years building software and leading engineering teams, including work with Orbitz, The Climate Corporation, and CircleCI, before leaving the technology industry in 2021 to focus on visual art.He creates long-form generative art released on fxhash, building custom algorithms in Julia and WebGL to generate abstract, color-driven compositions.,
In 2021 he began by exploring data visualization, rendering the history of the software development process itself, including animated visualizations of git commit histories.,He then found he was more drawn to the purely visual side of that work than to its data-journalism side, and moved into generative art, combining his software background with visual creativity.
His generative work is released as long-form collections on fxhash, a generative art platform on the Tezos blockchain.Dissolution, released on 26 January 2022 as an edition of 256, uses a recursive-subdivision algorithm, built first in Julia and rendered in WebGL by layering about ten million semi-transparent rectangles, and was inspired by W. B. Yeats's poem The Second Coming.Harmonium, released on 30 June 2022 and his largest project to that point, grew out of research into procedural street-map generation and uses streamline algorithms drawn from academic papers on street modeling, producing thirteen generative layouts named after Wallace Stevens's poetry collection Harmonium.
His Subdivisions collection was featured in the newsletter Generative Collective's "FxHash Snapshots" showcase, and was later noted among the week's biggest floor-price gainers in a market update from Kaloh's Newsletter.,
