Art by T

A.R.T. · Art by T · 2026

Order, grown
not drawn.

Abstract works built from rules. Each begins as a small system, a field of forces, a stack of layers, a set of rings, and is run until something holds together.

See the works

Six works

Select any work to view it larger. Technical details sit beneath each piece.

Drift

Flow field

800 streamlines follow an angle field built from five overlapping plane waves. Each line is nudged forward 80 times; colour and weight are drawn from weighted palettes.

Medium
Generative vector artwork (SVG)
Size
1600 × 2000 px, 4:5, scalable
Tools
Python 3, NumPy
Seed
7
Year
2026

Strata

Layered contour bands

Fifteen bands, each with an edge shaped by slow noise. Amplitude grows down the page, so the top is calm and the bottom restless. Painted back to front.

Medium
Generative vector artwork (SVG)
Size
1600 × 2000 px, 4:5, scalable
Tools
Python 3, NumPy
Seed
21
Year
2026

Orbit Study

Broken concentric rings

Five centres, each wrapped in 12 to 22 rings. Every ring is dashed at a random ratio and rotated, so the circles read as arcs caught mid-motion.

Medium
Generative vector artwork (SVG)
Size
1600 × 2000 px, 4:5, scalable
Tools
Python 3, NumPy
Seed
33
Year
2026

Quiet Grid

Truchet tiling

A 16 by 20 grid where each tile holds two quarter-circle arcs in one of two orientations. Colour follows a smooth field so neighbouring tiles share a mood.

Medium
Generative vector artwork (SVG)
Size
1600 × 2000 px, 4:5, scalable
Tools
Python 3, NumPy
Seed
45
Year
2026

Interference

Moiré of concentric lines

Three sets of fine circles, each with a slightly different spacing. The patterns you see where they cross are not drawn; they emerge from the overlap.

Medium
Generative vector artwork (SVG)
Size
1600 × 2000 px, 4:5, scalable
Tools
Python 3, NumPy
Seed
58
Year
2026

Bloom

Overlapping organic forms

Eleven closed curves, each a circle distorted by a handful of harmonics. Multiply blending darkens the overlaps so new colours appear where forms meet.

Medium
Generative vector artwork (SVG)
Size
1600 × 2000 px, 4:5, scalable
Tools
Python 3, NumPy
Seed
71
Year
2026

Process

How the work comes to be, and who and what is involved.

Each piece starts with a question about order: what happens if a picture is not drawn, but grown from a rule? A flow field, a stack of layers, a set of rings. The rule is written down as code, given a number called a seed, and run. The same seed always returns the same picture, so every work can be reproduced, varied and examined.

Then comes the part that is not automatic: looking. Many seeds produce nothing worth keeping. The work is in changing a rule, narrowing the palette, adjusting how much chaos a system is allowed, and choosing which result to keep. The palette is deliberately small, a few warm and cool pigments on ink or paper, so that structure and rhythm carry each image.

On authorship. The concept, the name and the brief for abstract, rule-based work are T's. The code that carries out these systems was written in collaboration with an AI coding assistant (Claude, by Anthropic), and the images are rendered by that code. This is stated openly because the process is the work: the system, the decisions about it and the selection from what it produces.

Read the generator source · Works data (JSON)

  1. 1

    Rule

    Choose a system: a field, a layering, a tiling.

  2. 2

    Seed

    Run it with a number. Same seed, same picture.

  3. 3

    Look

    Judge the result. Adjust the rule, the palette, the chaos.

  4. 4

    Keep

    Select the seed worth keeping and record its details.

Try a seed

A small browser version of Drift. Change the number and the system grows a sibling.

About

Art by T is the practice of T, whose initials, A.R.T., turned the name into a small joke that became a method: Art by T. The work is abstract and made with rules rather than brushes. Each piece begins as a system, a field of forces, a stack of layers, a set of rings, and is seeded, run, studied and run again until something holds together.

Colour is kept narrow on purpose, so that structure and rhythm do the talking. The practice sits between drawing, design and code, and is interested in how much order a composition needs before it starts to feel alive, and how much disorder it can take before it stops. Works are made in 2026 and shown here, with their technical details and process, on the artbyt.art domain.