GIF capture of a web page by Hypothete (Duncan Alexander). Unlike this GIF's limited palette--I cut it off at 44 KB--Alexander's "painting" keeps obliterating itself with various color combos ad infinitum.
Once again, Microsoft's inferior IE browser doesn't know what to do with the code on such pages. Its version of this one suggests an escape artist at Jack in the Box.
GIF made with screen capture from the Rotor 34 - HyperMolecules page
(thanks again to Duncan Alexander for automating my atomic vocabulary - he saved me years of work)
Our collaborative page is here. Molecules with a "vintage" look--resembling stop-motion puppet animation--form and reform at high speed, in never-repeating combinations.
Below is an animated GIF I made, capturing just a fragment of the action:
Internet Explorer reads the page wrong (of course) but it's not so bad--the growth of the molecules is all vertical (see screenshot of a single frozen moment), resulting in an, er, erectionpalooza.
The spheres and struts are bitmap drawings that I use for collage and installation work (and some animation). Alexander talks a little on his blog about how he is animating these components on the HyperMolecules page ("I wrote a simple javascript loop that would assemble and reassemble them like self-constructing molecules"). The way the shapes are assembled is very familiar to me from countless hours of doing this manually.
