nature

Particle systems, because they're based on natural movement, really draw us into it. People don't realize that it's really because of the naturalism of the movement that it appeals to us so much.

Rebecca Allen, Electric Dreams: Rebecca Allen, Analívia Cordeiro, Eduardo Kac

And then we were able to develop this FormGrow language in ESME, which enabled us to evolve organic forms that were taking, stealing geometry from nature, and we'd re-implemented it in FormGrow.

William Latham, 1980s Computer Art: Mark Wilson, David Em, Dan Sandin