constraints

I've purposely chosen my tools to avoid those situations. There are trade offs, of course. It's not like I can easily produce the same pristine results you could quickly get with Houdini or Autodesk Maya. But these constraints are my way of maintaining my little, self-contained world of how I make art.

DEAFBEEF, DEAFBEEF on (Im)permanence

What we're trying to do is put constraints on it that reveal a little bit of how it works. Then in that, hopefully, you understand and enjoy it a little more in the way that we do.

Matt Hall, Larva Labs on Computation’s Strangeness