Liquid Tiles About Playmodes Photo: Felix von der Osten/Kayla Kauffman Liquid Tiles is a kinetic audiovisual canvas conceived as a modular system of 126 computer-controlled rotating light fixtures arranged in a triangular matrix. Each fixture is a curved 60-degree segment which, through its geometric disposition, forms a continuous connective tessellation known as Truchet tiling, named after the 18th-century mathematician Sébastien Truchet. This structure enables local interactions between elements to propagate across the surface, generating larger, evolving visual patterns. -^ f.l.t.r. Santi...

Liquid Tiles – six algorithmic narratives of light, colour, movement and sound About Lightnet Liquid Tiles unfolds as a dynamic interplay of geometry, movement and sound. Based on a modular system, algorithmic rules continuously generate new compositions that oscillate between order and randomness, structure and organic growth. Each of the six patterns – Fuller, Spaghetti, Feather, Snake, Kaleidoscope and Duality – follows its own behavioural logic, creating a distinct atmosphere and spatial experience. Complex cellular structures emerge like living organisms, luminous lines weave and mirror...

An algorithm periodically generates compositions of closed shapes. As it searches for ways to fill the canvas, it produces a never-ending field of combinations that reveals the versatility and flexibility of the modular system. Large structures can emerge that recall natural phenomena – corals, fungi, microorganisms – while smaller interlocking cells gather into shifting constellations. At times, the behaviour even suggests characters from an extraterrestrial script. From a simple set of rules, complexity and emergent beauty unfold through permutation. 1. Take a few boiled strands of spaghetti...

A soft, continuous motion spreads across the matrix as if guided by an invisible wind. The arcs no longer behave as individual elements but as parts of a shared surface, bending and aligning through smooth gradients of change. Patterns emerge that recall feathers, fish scales or fields of grain set in motion by air currents. A path assembles itself arc by arc, forming a growing zigzagging body that navigates the matrix like a curious creature. Each new segment attaches at the head, extending the chain while carefully avoiding collisions with its own body or the limits of the canvas. The system...

A rotating kaleidoscopic pattern unfolds across the canvas, continuously recombining itself into fleeting constellations of flowers, stars and radiant geometries. Symmetries appear, dissolve and reassemble in a slow, hypnotic drift, as if the surface were endlessly folding onto itself. A symmetric choreography of two light and sound entities explores the limits of their relationship. They move across the canvas seeking one another, expressing a desire to communicate and interact. What unfolds is a narrative that echoes human relations, where balance, symbiosis and symmetry guide this algorithmic...

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