SCHNEEWALD is the second release in a row of about 12 tree/flower generative art works, which have come together over the last 10 years.

This project explores an approach to trees with snow using a recursive algorithm and includes Three traits: a density layer for the amount of trees and another layer for the amount snow and a third for how strong the branches bend.

Rendering progress indicated on the top left border
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Artist notes:
Since I moved to Wandlitz, north of Berlin, in the middle of the "Naturpark Barnim" (https://www.barnim-naturpark.de/), in 2003,
I've done a lot of exploring nearby nature. In addition to the beautiful lake and heath landscapes, I fell in love with the wild acacia forests. These strange trees, sometimes more like huge wild grasses, grow so wildly into each other.

I experienced it in all sorts of seasonal change, packed with snow is definitely among the most amazing!

While playing around with different branching system code snippets, a more and more complex image composition came together. The final script for this project on fx(hash) was finally given more randomness for a wider range of different outputs and an additional random grain filter.

Project link: https://e-art.co/project/schneewald/

Many thanks to jesse (jbird) for the good collaboration, which ultimately made it possible to get this work released.

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