Petals in Pixels — Evolution 10 / 10

open edition · 1280 × 1280 PNG · May 2025

The 10th and final frame of an experiment in swarm intelligence and generative art.

Process: 400 autonomous LLM-agents, each steering a 4 × 4-pixel block, trade border-colour data and coordination messages for 10 iterations—turning pure noise into a sunflower in a system that resembles stochastic cellular automata.

Grid: 20 × 20 agents → 80 × 80 pixels (upsampled to 1280 × 1280).

Model: OpenAI o4-mini; ≈ 2.3 million tokens generated.

Artist: Timothy Mc Alister, 2025.

Replay every step and inspect each agent’s “thoughts”: https://tsmcalister.github.io/petals_in_pixels/