Deterministic generative art — nothing on screen is left to chance.

"Generative" often gets confused with "random." WY.GONE is generative in the older, stricter sense: a fixed set of rules applied to a fixed input, producing one specific, reproducible result.

Same input, same output — always

Every visual property of a WY — its position on the canvas, the family of gesture it belongs to, its scale, its density — is derived mathematically from that WY's own permanent identity plus its real event history. Reload the page a thousand times and you get the same thousand renders, pixel for pixel. Nothing is drawn from a random-number generator at view time.

Why that matters here

A living artwork that redecorated itself randomly on every visit wouldn't be developing — it would just be flickering. Determinism is what lets a WY actually have a history: today's form is explainable entirely by what happened to it since it began, not by whatever the dice rolled this time.

Different visitors, different work

Because each WY's identity is unique to the person who begins it, two visitors arriving in the same second still receive visibly different forms — different structure, different placement, different character — from the same underlying rules. The rules are shared; the results aren't.

Continue to how a WY's history is recorded and protected.