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SoulSea
A generative work released on fxhash in an edition of three hundred. The artist's text describes looking down to find that the ocean in your heart is a sine wave, with the tide gently lapping onto the shore, treating the soul as an ocean and inviting the viewer to consider digital consciousness through wave motion and imagery of distant seas. Each edition runs its algorithm live in the browser and looks different.
- Soul series
- fxhash
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Che-Yu Wu 官方網站 ↗︎
- Related records
- → SoulFish（2022） · The Soul series (Curatorial theme)
- → Creative Coding Taiwan First Meetup — Che-Yu Wu's Generative Art Universe（2022） · A work presented in the talk (Curatorial theme)
Saturday Chat — I Started Selling NFTs: The Value of Generative Art in NFTs
An essay on NFTs as a new market for digital artists. It explains how blockchains establish authenticity and ownership for digital work, compares OpenSea, Art Blocks, Foundation and Rarible and the kinds of artists each suits, and discusses how NFTs let creators bypass traditional gallery gatekeeping. It recounts his own experience selling generative work on these platforms, including the unexpected attention after one of his robot designs was plagiarised onto Art Blocks, describes his refined line on Foundation alongside a playful meme-style line on OpenSea, and closes by previewing Electriz.
- NFT
- Generative art
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Creative Coding TW ↗︎
- Related records
- → Project Electriz (Art Blocks #216) · The project previewed in the article (Documented connection)
- → AR Series 2 — South Plus at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts（2022） · The same column publishing line (Curatorial theme)
Global Views Monthly — A 26-Year-Old Unknown Who Reached Financial Freedom Through NFTs
A profile in Global Views Monthly tracing his path as a generative artist in New York: learning Flash web design from his mother and Visual Basic from his father as a child, an electrical engineering degree from National Chiao Tung University, then a master's in integrated digital media at NYU. Rather than a conventional engineering career he launched an online coding course on Hahow that drew over ten thousand students, began a daily-creation project during the pandemic, and moved into algorithmically generated NFT work. The piece reports cumulative NFT trading volume above one hundred million New Taiwan dollars, a top single sale of 10 ETH, and the animated burger NFT collaboration with White Castle.
- Profile
- NFT
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- 遠見雜誌 ↗︎
- Related records
- → Sliderverse × White Castle (Doodle Labs) · The brand collaboration mentioned in the article (Curatorial theme)
- → Cheers Magazine — Under 30 and Turned Around by NFTs（2022） · The same wave of press coverage (Curatorial theme)
White Castle Announces NFT Collaboration with Doodle Labs and Che-Yu Wu
A press release from US fast-food chain White Castle announcing the Sliderverse NFT collection with NFT platform Doodle Labs Corp and digital media artist Che-Yu Wu. The collection comprises five thousand generative works on Ethereum, minted at the moment of purchase using Art Blocks generative minting technology so that components and stylistic treatments differ per piece. Licensing ran through Brandgenuity, and a share of proceeds went to the chain's team member relief and scholarship funds.
- Brand collaboration
- Generative NFT
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- PR Newswire ↗︎
- Related records
- → Sliderverse × White Castle (Doodle Labs) · The press release announcing this collection (Documented connection)
Sliderverse × White Castle (Doodle Labs)
A generative NFT collection of 1,285 minted against a contract ceiling of 5,001 works on Ethereum made with US fast-food chain White Castle and NFT platform Doodle Labs. Each piece is minted at the moment of purchase using Art Blocks generative minting technology, so component combinations and stylistic treatments differ per output. White Castle's chief marketing officer described the artist as combining multimedia technology and art into a creative experience unlike any they had seen.
- NFT
- Brand collaboration
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- PR Newswire ↗︎
- Related records
- → Project Electriz (Art Blocks #216) · The same Art Blocks technology line that year (Curatorial theme)
- → White Castle Announces NFT Collaboration with Doodle Labs and Che-Yu Wu · The press release announcing this collection (Documented connection)
- → Global Views Monthly — A 26-Year-Old Unknown Who Reached Financial Freedom Through NFTs · The brand collaboration mentioned in the article (Curatorial theme)
Art Blocks After Dinner Mints Episode 29 with Che-Yu Wu
Episode 29 of After Dinner Mints, the Art Blocks podcast, with Che-Yu Wu as guest. The episode is framed around his newly launched Art Blocks project Electriz, and notes the groundwork he laid for sail-o-bots.
- Podcast
- Art Blocks
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Art Blocks on YouTube ↗︎
- Related records
- → Project Electriz (Art Blocks #216) · The project discussed in the episode (Documented connection)
Project Electriz (Art Blocks #216)
Art Blocks project 216, a release of nine hundred and ten works launched on 7 December 2021. Each output uses digital cloud chambers to observe the traces of unidentified particles, with the space divided into regions of differing physical properties that affect how particles move, rotate, split and vanish, forming an unpredictable experimental system. The artist page places the work at the intersection of physics, mathematics, music and art.
- Art Blocks
- Particles
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Art Blocks ↗︎
- Related records
- → AB_Project_CheYu Repository · The production side of the Art Blocks release (Curatorial theme)
- → SACRIFICE — M.A.D.S. Art Gallery · Generative work from the same period (Curatorial theme)
- → Sliderverse × White Castle (Doodle Labs) · The same Art Blocks technology line that year (Curatorial theme)
- → Art Blocks After Dinner Mints Episode 29 with Che-Yu Wu · The project discussed in the episode (Documented connection)
- → Saturday Chat — I Started Selling NFTs: The Value of Generative Art in NFTs · The project previewed in the article (Documented connection)
- → Neocha — Algorithmic Bliss（2022） · The Art Blocks line covered in the article (Curatorial theme)
- → Chaos Lab Solo Exhibition, First Run — AMBI SPACE ONE（2022） · Electriz shown in the exhibition's second chapter (Curatorial theme)
- → Saturday Chat — Making the Art Blocks Project Electriz（2022） · The project the article unpacks (Documented connection)
SACRIFICE — M.A.D.S. Art Gallery
The M.A.D.S. Art Gallery page lists Che-Yu Wu as a digital artist and a contemporary new media artist from Taiwan working with algorithmic and interactive practice, describing the work as soulfully algorithm-driven, casting life and emotion within the digital realm. Works shown on the page include The Soul of Flowers, Sweet Dreams, Causality, Nightmare, Chaos Dancer, Tangled and Triangle Picnic. The statement speaks of drawing on nature, physics and mathematics between engineering and art to build an emotional and spiritual bridge between the virtual and the real.
- Group exhibition
- International exhibition
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- M.A.D.S. Art Gallery ↗︎
- Related records
- → Project Electriz (Art Blocks #216) · Generative work from the same period (Curatorial theme)
SeaHamDAO Website Repository
The public repository behind the SeaHamDAO website, built with Vue.js and backed by Firebase. It ships .firebaserc, firebase.json and database.rules.json configuration files, and the README gives the standard yarn install, serve and build workflow. The main branch holds eighty commits, with two stars and one fork.
- DAO
- Open source
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- GitHub ↗︎
- Related records
- → AB_Project_CheYu Repository · Repositories opened in the same year (Curatorial theme)
C-LAB Future Media Arts Festival: p5.js Creative Coding Workshop
A two-evening p5.js creative coding workshop led by Che-Yu Wu on 19 and 20 October 2021, held by C-LAB during the Processing Taiwan Community Day of the 2021 Future Media Arts Festival. It moved from basic drawing and colour through generative art, interactive systems and simulation, to audiovisual interaction with live data. This is the C-LAB p5.js Creative Coding 101 session listed in the CV.
- Workshop
- p5.js
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- C-LAB 臺灣當代文化實驗場 ↗︎
- Related records
- → Creative Coding: Processing and p5.js Teaching and Trends — Lien-Cheng Wang and Che-Yu Wu in Dialogue（2022） · The Taiwan-US dialogue from the same festival (Curatorial theme)
p5.js Tutorial — Dreamy Bird
Documents eight development stages of Dreamy Bird in p5.js and OpenProcessing, starting from metallic colour experiments and growing into an animated creature. It covers noise() for organic randomness, sin() and cos() for wave motion, and atan2() so the eyes track the cursor. The finished piece is a colourful undulating creature with fish fins that responds to input, and the post argues for iterative refinement over solving everything at once.
- p5.js
- Noise
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Creative Coding TW ↗︎
- Related records
- → Canvas Tutorial — Enemy Detection Radar · The same tutorial publishing line (Curatorial theme)
AB_Project_CheYu Repository
A public GitHub repository for a generative artwork, holding Sketch.js and Rarity.js with their minified builds, index.html plus several variant pages, canvas image assets and a build directory. The README carries only a one-line setup note asking for a global minify install. The main branch holds twenty-nine commits.
- Generative art
- Open source
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- GitHub ↗︎
- Related records
- → Project Electriz (Art Blocks #216) · The production side of the Art Blocks release (Curatorial theme)
- → SeaHamDAO Website Repository · Repositories opened in the same year (Curatorial theme)
- → cheyu-genart-fairy-village Repository（2022） · The same Art Blocks production line (Curatorial theme)
2021 Nuit Blanche Taipei — Online Guide
A guide to the online edition of Nuit Blanche Taipei 2021. Held fully online on 2 and 3 October under the theme Interoperability, the festival invited sixty interdisciplinary artists to make work across Taipei's twelve districts, grouped into four strands. Programming covered four sections, and the article also notes extended hours at selected Beitou venues and free evening museum admission.
- Nuit Blanche
- Online festival
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Creative Coding TW ↗︎
- Related records
- → Canvas Tutorial — Enemy Detection Radar · The same community publishing line (Curatorial theme)
Canvas Tutorial — Enemy Detection Radar
Builds an interactive enemy-detection radar with HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript. It starts from drawing shapes and lines, introduces a polar coordinate system for placing elements and a modular code structure, then centres on a rotating scanning beam revealing randomly positioned enemies with expanding circles and cross markers, finishing with scale markings and animated dashed lines.
- Canvas
- Polar coordinates
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Creative Coding TW ↗︎
- Related records
- → p5.js Tutorial — CreativeCoding Fireworks Festival (Livestream Notes) · The same livestream-notes series (Curatorial theme)
- → 2021 Nuit Blanche Taipei — Online Guide · The same community publishing line (Curatorial theme)
- → p5.js Tutorial — Dreamy Bird · The same tutorial publishing line (Curatorial theme)
- → Interactive Web Tutorial — Object-Oriented Canvas Dragging with GUI Objects and Inheritance（2022） · The same Canvas tutorial line (Curatorial theme)
p5.js Tutorial — CreativeCoding Fireworks Festival (Livestream Notes)
Livestream notes responding to an online fireworks festival that Japanese creative coders organised on Twitter around Processing Community Day. The post builds a particle system, then covers staggered multi-burst fireworks, particle variations, HSB colour mode, and removing off-screen fireworks to keep performance stable.
- Particle systems
- Livestream notes
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Creative Coding TW ↗︎
- Related records
- → Canvas Tutorial — Enemy Detection Radar · The same livestream-notes series (Curatorial theme)
CryptoPochi
A collection of mysterious creatures whose faces carry everyday emotions; the site says they are you and me, lying on the ground and playing all day. Early minting for Sea Ham holders opened at 15:00 UTC on 5 September 2021, public minting the next day, and the team closed the sale at the 732nd mint, thirty-four hours in (the contract ceiling was 1,500). The site also notes that Pochis stem from Sleepy Pochi, a generative work in the daily creative coding series.
- Characters
- Minting
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- CryptoPochi ↗︎
- OpenSea ↗︎
- Related records
- → Strange Robots — daily sketch · Characters grown from the daily sketches (Curatorial theme)
Birds on Wires — daily sketch
Desire to fly, gather on the unsteady steel cables, / Imitating moves of others, rushing to jump in the crowd, / Try your best to not fall from the wires, / Not even have the freedom to touch the sky.
- Birds
- Flocks
Island Impression — daily sketch
On the other side of the sea there seem to be islands. / Gazing out, sometimes a faint outline is visible, / sometimes it is swallowed by haze and glinting waves, sometimes it gathers and scatters again. / Do they really exist, or has my own insistence turned into an illusion?
- Islands
- Sea
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- OpenProcessing ↗︎
- Related records
- → Coral Carnival — daily sketch · Watching the sea and its life (Curatorial theme)
Unsolvable Knot — daily sketch
Uncontrollable factors keep spreading, / tangling into an intricate ending. / Some unsolvable pasts are better left untouched.
- Knots
- Entanglement
Fireworks Festival — daily sketch
Brief but brilliant, burning life to ignite the spectrum, / cherishing every bloom because each one takes a different shape. / Fireworks made with a particle system and gradient colours.
- Fireworks
- Particle systems
A dynamic timeline with Pug, Sass and Vue.js
Building a dynamic timeline on CodePen with Pug, Sass and Vue.js. Three things come first: the data shown on the timeline, the layout with a colour and size library, and the trigger plus loading animation that fetch the data, demonstrated with a logs array holding years and content.
- Timelines
- Front-end
Sweet Trap — daily sketch
Hatched in the shadows, giving off a thorned sweetness, / a vivid phantom coiling upward, / turning in the cycle without ever noticing, / woken only at the moment before suffocation, / eyes wide open, staring at its own folly.
- Traps
- Sweetness
PARAÌSO — M.A.D.S. Gallery
The artist page at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery presents Che-Yu Wu as working from the meeting point of engineering and art, drawing on nature, physics, modern art and mathematics, and lists works including The Soul of Flowers, Sweet Dreams, Causality, Nightmare, Chaos Dancer, Tangled and Triangle Picnic.
- Gallery
- International showing
Quantum Unstable — a glowing entangled system
Deforming concentric circles made in p5.js. The notes record starting without a fixed idea: points are placed in polar coordinates and joined with curveVertex(), and only at step five, when a central nucleus appears, does the physics and science fiction direction settle, after which free particles, numbered gauges and surrounding lines finish the piece.
- Concentric circles
- Sci-fi style
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- CreativeCoding.in ↗︎
- Related records
- → Aqua Planet — glowing colliding planet · The same approach of particles and gauges (Curatorial theme)
Coral Carnival — daily sketch
It has grown hotter again, and even memories are beginning to bleach. / The clownfish has left for good, and coral without him / is really no more than a colourful empty shell. / Social animals cannot leave one another after all, / yet they drifted apart and left only the relics of time.
- Coral
- Bleaching
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- OpenProcessing ↗︎
- Related records
- → Colour Anemone — p5.js livestream notes · Lines of sea creatures (Curatorial theme)
- → Island Impression — daily sketch · Watching the sea and its life (Curatorial theme)
Foundation Classic Series
A classic series on Foundation that mints at most ten works per algorithm. The catalog page records the start as July 1st, 2021, and lists works including 201127 Nightmare, 210612 Chaos Dancer, 200609 Causality, 200612 Triangle Picnic and 210913 Sweet Dreams.
- Generative art
- Editions
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- NFT Catalog ↗︎
- Related records
- → Chaos Dancer — daily sketch · Taken into the Foundation classic series (Documented connection)
- → Nightmare — daily sketch（2020） · 201127 Nightmare listed in the catalog (Documented connection)
Aqua Planet — glowing colliding planet
Building a glowing aqua planet out of particles in p5.js, then adding arcs, connecting lines and an outer measuring scale. A blue particle cloud is assembled with functions, animated with noise, paired with warmer orange particles, and finished with gauges that make the piece read as an observation.
- Particles
- Planets
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- CreativeCoding.in ↗︎
- Related records
- → Quantum Unstable — a glowing entangled system · The same approach of particles and gauges (Curatorial theme)
Chaos Dancer — daily sketch
She keeps turning on the stage, circle after circle, / sometimes a duet, sometimes letting go of the hand and leaping alone. / Every performance is a trajectory that cannot be reproduced, / carrying newly mixed colours, taking her bow at a show with no audience. / Made with @p5xjs
- Dancer
- Trajectory
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- OpenProcessing ↗︎
- Related records
- → Foundation Classic Series · Taken into the Foundation classic series (Documented connection)
Crazy Tornado — p5.js livestream notes
Combining geometric shapes with trigonometry, the notes build a tornado lifting a cow and a barn in p5.js. The tornado silhouette comes first, then the objects it picks up, and finally the background colour, texture, line adjustments and mouse interaction.
- Polar coordinates
- Tutorial
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- CreativeCoding.in ↗︎
- Related records
- → Trigonometry for the web, Part 1 — satellite around the moon · Listed in the notes as trigonometry part one (Documented connection)
- → Trigonometry for the web, Part 2 — sci-fi clock · Listed in the notes as trigonometry part two (Documented connection)
Wiggle Planet — daily sketch
The spaceship has landed. This stop is at Alpha.26, coordinates ( 8.0068 , 3.200000 ), / but it seems to be shaking violently, so the report to the station says it is not fit to live on. / What cannot be observed is treated as nonexistent, and an overactive core cannot hide its heat. / Then let us camp on this planet and go mad together.
- Planets
- Vibration
Trigonometry for the web, Part 2 — sci-fi clock
Building a sci-fi clock with trigonometry and canvas. The notes argue that mathematics helps produce interesting motion in web design, and that mathematical expressions travel everywhere, from visual effects to data analysis, as an elegant way to describe something.
- Trigonometry
- Canvas
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- CreativeCoding.in ↗︎
- Related records
- → Trigonometry for the web, Part 1 — satellite around the moon · Part one of the same series (Documented connection)
- → Crazy Tornado — p5.js livestream notes · Listed in the notes as trigonometry part two (Documented connection)
Trigonometry for the web, Part 1 — satellite around the moon
The notes first work through trigonometric calculation and translate it into code, then use html (pug), css (sass) and js to build a satellite orbiting the moon from scratch as a web animation. Two past cases, Dyverse Studio and the Complex Life Festival, illustrate why trigonometry, coordinate systems and canvas matter for real-time drawing.
- Trigonometry
- Web motion
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- CreativeCoding.in ↗︎
- Related records
- → Trigonometry for the web, Part 2 — sci-fi clock · Part one of the same series (Documented connection)
- → Crazy Tornado — p5.js livestream notes · Listed in the notes as trigonometry part one (Documented connection)
Marking Life — daily sketch
Underline the important things with a highlighter, / add a few more colourful fragments when there is time, / then write over the memories you would rather not revisit with correction tape. / Kept or not, the small things of a life are marked into your chapters.
- Memory
- Marking
Wave Circuit — p5.js livestream notes
A step-by-step guide to a wave circuit effect, drawing the background grid, the connecting lines and the decorative details in p5.js. The notes describe moving back and forth between the three parts, refining details until the piece is finished.
- Grids
- Tutorial
Strange Robots — public release
Strange Robots was released as a public sketch on OpenProcessing, where anyone can open the code, read it and remake it. The work itself is that day's daily sketch, a crowd of little robots with crooked ears and antennae.
- Open source
- Robots
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- OpenProcessing ↗︎
- Related records
- → Strange Robots — daily sketch · The public release on the same day (Curatorial theme)
Strange Robots — daily sketch
The little robots have crooked ears, some wear a stern green face, / whether you are round or square, or waving an orange antenna, / whether you lift a smug corner of the mouth, none of it is any trouble at all. / Your odd shapes and odd temperaments are what make you one of a kind.
- Robots
- Characters
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- OpenProcessing ↗︎
- Related records
- → Strange Robots — public release · The public release on the same day (Curatorial theme)
- → CryptoPochi · Characters grown from the daily sketches (Curatorial theme)
Aurora — daily sketch
Gathered together, guided by what we call fate, / leaving behind a colourful radiance after the meeting, then fading. / It still exists in the past, yet it will never return.
- Aurora
- Particles
Mirror Fractal — daily sketch
It cannot reflect a complete face. / The sphere is not imperfect, the mirror is broken, / and it can only reflect fractal fragments of reality.
- Fractals
- Mirrors
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- OpenProcessing ↗︎
- Related records
- → Face Sampling — daily sketch · Distorting images with shaders (Curatorial theme)
Metal Planet — daily sketch
A melting core deforms in the sky, / an overheated temperature that cannot find the shape it should have.
- Planets
- Metal
Colour Anemone — p5.js livestream notes
A step-by-step guide to making a dispersing anemone, drawing writhing lines and a frame effect in p5.js. The livestream covers four parts: tentacles built from wavering lines, mouse interaction plus colour, texture and an outer frame, finer tentacles for detail, and a converging base that gathers the anemone into a cluster.
- Lines
- Tutorial
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- CreativeCoding.in ↗︎
- Related records
- → Coral Carnival — daily sketch · Lines of sea creatures (Curatorial theme)
Face Sampling — daily sketch
So are human beings also machines? / Do we sample familiar contours in the brain through some complex neural network, / connecting point after point of data until it becomes the you in memory? / Did that person really exist, or is it only an illusion sampled across countless present moments? / A test of using my own facial data points for creation, with a shader adding distortion.
- Faces
- Data points
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- OpenProcessing ↗︎
- Related records
- → Mirror Fractal — daily sketch · Distorting images with shaders (Curatorial theme)