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The Zymoglyphic Animation Laboratory uses the latest technology to bring life to the still, flat world of the printed page and the computer screen.

Views of the Zymoglyphic Region - The Movie

Animated version of "Views of the Zymoglyphic Region," a collection of views of the region during the Age of Wonder.

For more information on the original series, see here.

The Cybernetic Aquarium
The Cybernetic Aquarium synthesizes ideas from geometry, probability theory, genomics, ecology, cybernetic feedback, and other organizing principles to create artificial life forms, generated in real time, from primitive graphic elements
Generative Art
Colorful Amoebas

In these unicellular creatures, line segments form an invisible skeleton. As the skeletal limbs move, the circles morph into pseudopods. As they pass over and through each other, their colors add together.

The Floater and the Brancher

The floater and the brancher are a complementary pair of cybernetic organisms, one composed of circles, the other of lines.

Mandala
A composite animalcule composed entirely of line segments, with which it mimics its circular brethren in an endless series of combinations. This species is closely related to the brancher.