Traces today. Memory tomorrow.
THE PRINCIPLE
AfterMachine does not ask you to make a beautiful isolated image. It asks you to intervene in a story already underway, under a simple graphical constraint and with an outcome you will no longer control afterwards.
In production, a browser can intervene again after a new cycle has passed. By default, one hundred public contributions must be added after your previous turn. This prevents one person from taking over the artwork and gives you a reason to return later.
Line, circle, curve, free drawing, polygon, point, star, ellipse, arc, spiral, burst and connection are available, with controlled weight and tone.
The rendering ages, but history does not disappear. Older marks sink visually into the matter while recent contributions remain sharper. Aging belongs to rendering, not to deletion.
AfterMachine asks for no account, name or geolocation. A signed first-party token is used only to apply the participation rule. It does not claim to prove a human identity and is never displayed in the artwork.
Tap or click once in the artwork.
Press at the start, move, then release at the end.
Press at the centre and open the circle.
Press at the centre and drag horizontally and vertically.
Place three vertices in sequence.
Place three to six vertices, then validate the shape.
Press to place the centre and drag to define radius and direction.
Draw from start to finish; the Machine will give the curve an organic tension.
Draw freely without lifting your finger, mouse or stylus. The motion stays curved; it is only simplified and smoothed for clean storage.
Connect two positions with a dashed trace.
Press to place the centre, move away to set its size, then release.
Place its centre and drag outward to define its amplitude.
Place the centre and drag outward to create a radiant mark.
