Backgrounds

Pilobolus features a rotating gallery of subtle, generative background animations inspired by biological and mathematical systems. Every time you load a page, a different algorithmic effect is chosen to dynamically generate the background visuals in your browser.

Here is an index of the current backgrounds in rotation and the artists and researchers who inspired them:

• Physarum Polycephalum: A slime mold network simulation.
• Reaction-Diffusion: Chemical Turing patterns.
• Continuous Cellular Automata: Soft-edged geometric crystalline growths.
• Diffusion-Limited Aggregation: Sparse, dendritic frost or coral branching.
• Spore Drift: Loose particles carried on a curl-noise current.
• Crustose Lichen: Patchy colonies spreading and merging.