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Piter Pasma: links

A source ledger for the Dutch generative artist whose compact programs turn mathematical space, light, chance, and plotter lines into impossible objects.

31 sources · last updated 23 June 2026

In the AB[500]: Art Blocks

Art Blocks' artist profile gathers Pasma's biography, recognition, and platform project.

Piter Pasma on Art Blocks artist profile

Skulptuur comprises 1,000 real-time, photorealistic forms generated by a compact on-chain path tracer.

Skulptuur Art Blocks Curated · 2021

Jeff Davis interviews Pasma about drawing, the demoscene, computational science, Genuary, rayhatching, and the construction of Skulptuur.

In Conversation with Piter Pasma interview · 2021

Works and the artist's own deep pages

Pasma's project essay explains Skulptuur's 6,370-byte code, intersecting grids, materials, lighting, and browser controls.

Skulptuur project essay artist documentation · 2021

The public Ropsten gallery preserves sequential test mints and documents the absence of output cherry-picking before release.

Skulptuur Ropsten test mints development archive · 2021

Skulptuur Decoded dissects the project's compact Xorshift128 pseudorandom-number generator line by line.

Skulptuur Decoded: The PRNG technical essay

Pasma's illustrated rayhatching history follows the algorithm from plotter constraints to the long-form Industrial Devolution.

Rayhatching chapters artist process essay · 2022

The artist's Wobbly Functions essay teaches how nested sine waves can replace conventional noise functions in generative work.

How to make sinusoid wobbly functions technical essay

Pasma's demoscene page archives his prize-winning 4-kilobyte audiovisual programs and their assembly-language context.

Demoscene artist archive

The plotter line-width tool translates physical pen behaviour into reliable SVG previews and production settings.

Measure the line width of your pens technical resource

Pasma's probability essay demonstrates compact transformations for shaping pseudorandom distributions.

Interesting basic PRNG distributions technical essay

Genuary is the annual month-long creative-coding challenge co-founded by Pasma and built around thirty-one daily prompts.

Genuary community project

The dedicated Skulptuur gallery provides a focused visual archive of the full generative series.

Skulptuur Gallery artist project archive

Museums and institutions

Feral File's N=12 catalogue documents Pasma's Balls to the Walls within a collaborative network of twelve generative artists.

N=12 catalogue institutional exhibition · 2023 · PDF

Body of Art includes Universal Rayhatcher #306 in a publication on robotic and computational art-making.

Body of Art exhibition publication · PDF

Galleries and exhibitions

Gazelli Art House records Pasma's participation in GEN/GEN: Generative Generations, a six-decade survey of generative art.

Piter Pasma exhibitions gallery archive · 2023

Bright Moments' artist archive identifies Industrial Devolution and Pasma's practice with code, complexity, and chance.

Piter Pasma at Bright Moments gallery archive

Bright Moments' Venice finale included Pasma among more than sixty artists generating new on-chain works.

The FinALe group event · 2023

Verse archives Skulptuur #27 as an individual work and links it to the complete 1,000-work series.

Skulptuur #27 gallery record · 2021

Artsy documents Pasma's first vector-based raymarcher output as a plotter drawing paired with a token.

First vector based raymarcher output work record · 2020

Interviews

Right Click Save's extended interview covers the demoscene, compact code, signed-distance functions, Genuary, collaboration, and artistic choice.

The Interview: Piter Pasma interview · 2023

Verse's conversation with Pasma and thefunnyguys considers compact code, science-fiction imagery, rayhatching, ownership, and digital archives.

Algorithmic catcher in the rye interview · 2022

Press and criticism

Le Random's collection record explains Industrial Devolution's 3,930-character rayhatcher, SDF landscapes, and plotter-ready SVG output.

Industrial Devolution #14 collection essay

Monokai documents artists writing their own scenes inside Pasma's Universal Rayhatcher language and renderer.

Art inside the Universal Rayhatcher case study · 2023

Essays, talks and podcasts

The Angels' Wing interviews Pasma about code efficiency, SDFs, rayhatching, plotters, Genuary, and Industrial Devolution.

Making the Impossible Possible podcast interview · 2023

Le Random's podcast discusses Pasma's role in founding Genuary and the challenge's community impact.

Celebrating Genuary with Piter Pasma podcast · 2024

Art Blocks' Minters & Makers episode joins Pasma with Alexis André, Stefano Contiero, and Cyberia.

Minters & Makers podcast · 2022

Profiles and archives

Gazelli Art House profiles Pasma's demoscene training, compact mathematical systems, rayhatcher, awards, and Genuary work.

Piter Pasma at Gazelli Art House gallery profile

Raster preserves the 551-work Universal Rayhatcher series as a browsable project archive.

Universal Rayhatcher series archive · 2023

Demozoo's Ritz profile catalogues Pasma's demoscene productions, credits, releases, and competition history.

Ritz on Demozoo demoscene archive

Video

Bright Moments' film documents the Venice Beach live mint of Industrial Devolution, the first official fxhash event in the United States.

fxhash in Venice event film · 2022

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