Crowds That Never Settle
The People is a generative artwork made in collaboration with contemporary artist Jonathan Huxley, whose painting practice centres on crowds: the density, the anonymity, the shifting relationships between figures in public space. We built a digital simulation that translates that practice into a living system. Digital figures form, drift toward each other, cluster, separate and reform in patterns governed by an emergent behaviour algorithm. The crowd never repeats. Every configuration is produced by the interaction of individual agents following simple rules, and the aggregate result has the visual quality of a Huxley painting while being in continuous, unrepeatable motion.
