Imagine thousands of travelers wandering from place to place and leaving a thread everywhere they stop to rest. Some traverse the world, others their own city. This generative art piece uses this simple concept to generate colorful patterns on different scales and with different palettes. The name Vagafilium is from the Latin for ‘wandering thread’.

There are ten possible palettes, some more likely to be chosen than others. Each is sampled from a photo taken over the past month and adjusted to match the energy of the work. The live version shows the threads of different sizes being drawn on the canvas.

Royalties are split with the minter.

Special features:

Press 1, 2, or 3 to export a PNG at 1000 x 1000 pixels (the size of the canvas), 2000 x 2000 pixels, or 3000 x 3000 pixels respectively. Retina displays will generate PNGs with twice the resolution per side at each level. You may have to wait thirty seconds to a minute for the export to complete, so please be patient.

Press ‘s’ to export an SVG version of all of the threads on the canvas. These are drawn with the stroke widths and the colors in the image version and can be edited in any vector program. I hope some of these get sent to a plotter.