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.
In the AB[500]: Art Blocks
Art Blocks' artist profile gathers Pasma's biography, recognition, and platform project.
Piter Pasma on Art Blocks ↗Skulptuur comprises 1,000 real-time, photorealistic forms generated by a compact on-chain path tracer.
Skulptuur ↗Jeff Davis interviews Pasma about drawing, the demoscene, computational science, Genuary, rayhatching, and the construction of Skulptuur.
In Conversation with Piter Pasma ↗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 ↗The public Ropsten gallery preserves sequential test mints and documents the absence of output cherry-picking before release.
Skulptuur Ropsten test mints ↗Skulptuur Decoded dissects the project's compact Xorshift128 pseudorandom-number generator line by line.
Skulptuur Decoded: The PRNG ↗Pasma's illustrated rayhatching history follows the algorithm from plotter constraints to the long-form Industrial Devolution.
Rayhatching chapters ↗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 ↗Pasma's demoscene page archives his prize-winning 4-kilobyte audiovisual programs and their assembly-language context.
Demoscene ↗The plotter line-width tool translates physical pen behaviour into reliable SVG previews and production settings.
Measure the line width of your pens ↗Pasma's probability essay demonstrates compact transformations for shaping pseudorandom distributions.
Interesting basic PRNG distributions ↗Genuary is the annual month-long creative-coding challenge co-founded by Pasma and built around thirty-one daily prompts.
Genuary ↗The dedicated Skulptuur gallery provides a focused visual archive of the full generative series.
Skulptuur Gallery ↗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 ↗Body of Art includes Universal Rayhatcher #306 in a publication on robotic and computational art-making.
Body of Art ↗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 ↗Bright Moments' artist archive identifies Industrial Devolution and Pasma's practice with code, complexity, and chance.
Piter Pasma at Bright Moments ↗Bright Moments' Venice finale included Pasma among more than sixty artists generating new on-chain works.
The FinALe ↗Verse archives Skulptuur #27 as an individual work and links it to the complete 1,000-work series.
Skulptuur #27 ↗Artsy documents Pasma's first vector-based raymarcher output as a plotter drawing paired with a token.
First vector based raymarcher output ↗Interviews
Right Click Save's extended interview covers the demoscene, compact code, signed-distance functions, Genuary, collaboration, and artistic choice.
The Interview: Piter Pasma ↗Verse's conversation with Pasma and thefunnyguys considers compact code, science-fiction imagery, rayhatching, ownership, and digital archives.
Algorithmic catcher in the rye ↗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 ↗Monokai documents artists writing their own scenes inside Pasma's Universal Rayhatcher language and renderer.
Art inside the Universal Rayhatcher ↗Essays, talks and podcasts
The Angels' Wing interviews Pasma about code efficiency, SDFs, rayhatching, plotters, Genuary, and Industrial Devolution.
Making the Impossible Possible ↗Le Random's podcast discusses Pasma's role in founding Genuary and the challenge's community impact.
Celebrating Genuary with Piter Pasma ↗Art Blocks' Minters & Makers episode joins Pasma with Alexis AndrĂ©, Stefano Contiero, and Cyberia.
Minters & Makers ↗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 ↗Raster preserves the 551-work Universal Rayhatcher series as a browsable project archive.
Universal Rayhatcher ↗Demozoo's Ritz profile catalogues Pasma's demoscene productions, credits, releases, and competition history.
Ritz on Demozoo ↗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 ↗