[andybak]

I've been trying to track that top image down for ages. This faux bokeh was a big inspiration for a VR piece I made: https://andybak.net/gossamer

(By "faux" I just mean this isn't simulating optics to any great level of realism)

I knew it was by inconvergent but I didn't think of looking on Github for some reason.

My implementation was actually different - I based mine on the work of Keijiro Takahashi: https://github.com/keijiro/VfxBokeh

[inconvergent]

in the event that you haven't seen it: https://inconvergent.net/2019/colour-shift/

[andybak]

I hadn't spotted that. That's much more digestible (and this page also: https://inconvergent.net/2019/depth-of-field/ )

How do you feel about the recent explosion of interest in generative art? Rather bizarrely it seems that people seem to think it developed out of crypto/NFTs and are unaware that people were doing it before it became hitched to this dubious trend. Do you think it will become tainted by association or can it actually benefit from all this attention?

[heyitsguay]

That's really beautiful, awesome work and explanation of how it was done!

[inconvergent]

thank you!