Kamel Ghabte · Book · Volume II

Creative Coding Morocco — Volume 2

From static pattern to living system: time, movement, life, memory, collective, duration. A generative data-art, in the colours of Morocco.

Forthcoming · Kamel Ghabte

The 13 Works of Volume 2

Each work is a generative system coded in p5.js, rooted in a Moroccan heritage and presented as a framed piece. Click to explore it live and view its full source code.

ATLAS CEDARLiving ForestA cross-section of an Atlas cedar (Ifrane-Azrou): 128 growth rings from 1898 to 2026, drought years as pale rings, a core sample reading time. Abstract dendrochronology.view the work & code → ATLAS FANTASIAPowder and LightThe tbourida as a raster: seventeen horsemen align their charge from start to baroud and converge towards a simultaneous powder salvo. A diagram of synchronisation.view the work & code → ATLAS FLOWFluid HeritageThe khettaras — underground irrigation tunnels of the High Atlas — become a flow field: hundreds of particles follow a Perlin vector field and draw, by accumulation, the patient movement of Berber water.view the work & code → ATLAS GNAWASacred ResonanceGnawa polyrhythm read as an instrument: the krakeb spectrum, the oscilloscope of the guembri’s three strings, the matrix of 7 mluk — a gold thread marks the downbeat of the lila.view the work & code → ATLAS HAMMAMThermal DriftThe hammam as a simulated thermal field: a turquoise heatmap with its isotherms, steam drifting upward. The physics of the ritual bath made legible.view the work & code → ZELLIGE KHATIMSacred StarThe khatim star of Fez zellige, built by code: a rosette with 8-fold symmetry, seven polychrome rings (gold, cream, terracotta, Majorelle) and a crown of sixteen slowly rotating stars. Moroccan sacred geometry.view the work & code → BEJMAT WAVECoastal MemoryCeramic dissolves into waves: three interference sources, fringes, the Atlantic memory of the tide. From tile to flow.view the work & code → GNAWA CIRCLETrance LoopThe lila as a polar sequencer: seven mluk rings, sixteen beats, a playhead that rotates and leaves trance trails. Ritual as loop.view the work & code → HENNA FLOWBody AlgorithmHenna as a body algorithm: volutes traced like a turtle graphic, between ivory cream and reddish-brown — the rituals of the hand.view the work & code → MEDINA PULSELiving CityThe medina as data.matrix: a grid where urban density lights up as a scan passes, gates and monuments as bright points. Coordinates of Fez.view the work & code → SOUK DRIFTMarket TopologyThe topology of the souk: 260 walkers drift between stalls, their accumulated trajectories reveal the most frequented alleys. Footfall density of the maze.view the work & code → TIFINAGH WAVEAncient Script AliveThe Amazigh alphabet in motion: tifinagh glyphs vibrate and undulate, ancestral script set in wave on a Beni Ouarain ground.view the work & code → VORTEX ATLASMountain BreathThe chergui as a wave field: 68 sinusoidal strata interfere as moiré, the ridge line separates lowlands from high plateaux. The Saharan wind as score.view the work & code →

The works presented are the generative studies of Volume 2. The book’s text (essays, courses, analytical corpus) remains reserved for the published edition.

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