BoxesInMotion

BoxesInMotion is Coded in Python & SonicPi and uses Recursion & Only Boxes(Prompt 12 & 26 of Genuary2026)

Poem

Entities 
made of Boxes
Wandering around acting as this Stage
Is theirs
Within their tiers
Ignoring the others that are there
For this is their space
For their paths in their pace
For the Boxes are of one shade
For the Boxes are only Boxes

Video

Code

Python

#original code = https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/mplot3d/voxels.html 
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import random as rd


def plotting(f):
    # prepare some coordinates
    x, y, z = np.indices((f, f, f))

    # draw cuboids in the top left and bottom right corners, and a link between
    # them
    cube1 = (x < 3) & (y < 3) & (z < 3)
    cube2 = (x >= 5) & (y >= 5) & (z >= 5)
    link = abs(x - y) + abs(y - z) + abs(z - x) <= 2
    link2 =  abs(y - z) + abs(x - z) + abs(y - x) >= 5

    colors = ['red','aqua','green','white','orange','violet','black','purple']

    palette = rd.choices(colors, k=20)


    if f % 2 == 0:
        if f % 3 == 0:
            voxelarray = cube1 ^ cube2 | link ^ link2
            # set the colors of each object
            colors = np.empty(voxelarray.shape, dtype=object)
            colors[link] =  palette[0]
            colors[cube1] = palette[1]
            colors[cube2] = palette[2]
            colors[link2] =  palette[12]
        else:
            voxelarray = cube1 | cube2 | link 
            colors = np.empty(voxelarray.shape, dtype=object)
            colors[link] = palette[3]
            colors[cube1] = palette[4]
            colors[cube2] = palette[5]
            colors[link2] =  palette[13]
    else:
        if f % 5 == 0:
            voxelarray = cube1 ^ link ^ link2
            colors = np.empty(voxelarray.shape, dtype=object)
            colors[link] = palette[6]
            colors[cube1] = palette[7]
            colors[cube2] = palette[8]
            colors[link2] =  palette[14]
        else:
            voxelarray = cube1 | link | link2
            colors = np.empty(voxelarray.shape, dtype=object)
            colors[link] = palette[9]
            colors[cube1] = palette[10]
            colors[cube2] = palette[11]
            colors[link2] =  palette[15]



    # and plot everything
    ax = plt.figure().add_subplot(projection='3d')
    ax.voxels(voxelarray, facecolors=colors, edgecolor='k')
    plt.axis('off') # Hide all axes
    plt.show()

    if f == 20 or f == 21:
        return 1
    else:
        return plotting(f + 1)

SonicPi

live_loop :dosage do
  use_random_seed Time.now.to_i
  use_bpm [5,20,120,240].choose
  with_fx :wobble, mix: 0.25 , amp: 1 do
    sample [:ambi_drone,:ambi_glass_hum].choose,beat_stretch: [2,3].choose, rate: [0.5,0.4,0.3,0.2,0.3,0.4].tick
    sleep [0.5,1,2].choose
  end
end


live_loop :bell do
  with_fx :echo, mix: [0.1,0.8,0.3,0.5,0.25].tick do
    with_fx :ixi_techno, mix: [0.2,0.7].choose do
      use_random_seed Time.now.to_i/2
      use_bpm [120,80,220].choose
      sample [:perc_bell,:elec_bell].choose, rate: (rrand 0.125,1.5)
      sleep rrand(0.2,2)
    end
  end
end


live_loop :synth do
  use_random_seed Time.now.to_i / 3
  with_fx [:flanger,:ixi_techno].choose, mix: 0.34 do
    sync :bell
    use_synth [:chiplead,:chipbass,:piano].choose
    play [50,75,100].choose , release: 0.1, sustain: dice(2), cutoff: rrand(60, 120) if spread(7,8).tick
    sleep [0.125,0.5,1,2].choose
  end
end