Attending to the xenotone

The xenotone does not follow a path, paths form through the xenotone. The encounter with the xenotone happens when physical, digital and speculative paths cross—this crossing need not form an alignment. I've been walking and scanning the local remnant and reconstructed ecologies with photogrammetry, LiDAR and as Gaussian Splats for many years now. In this current iteration of experiments, Xenotone, I have been modulating the results between rudimentary point clouds and abstracted, low-poly models and the generative traversal of these.Fundamentally, point clouds exists as a list of three-dimensional coordinate data, alongside an rgb colour sampled from the original capture. They're not meshes, just a cloud of coloured dots suspended in …