Payton Turnage is a generative artist whose work is generated entirely by programs he writes himself.An engineer by profession, he began writing generative art after several years of programming, first replicating other artists' techniques before developing his own tools and processes.,
His early pieces explored classic generative algorithms such as circle packing.One image began as an attempt to draw an ocean wave. Turnage evolved it by grouping brush strokes into overlapping blobs and layering them with deformed, ringed circles inspired by the title sequence of the television series Avatar: The Last Airbender.
He also wrote two software tools to support his practice.,valora is a drawing library for generative fine art built around a custom rasterizer.immense is a Rust library for synthesizing 3D structures from simple composable rules, inspired by the earlier tool Structure Synth.In another project, he replicated Tyler Hobbs's technique for simulating watercolor paint from scratch as the starting point for his own generative art toolkit.
