Medical radiation expert by day, creative coder by night. Frederik Vanhoutte aka @wblut is on the fine line between art and science, utility and aesthetics.
On October 4th, 2020, he minted his first work “Lost Kiez 9888-6824”.



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Art to Frederik is a means of understanding and appreciating reality.
It is about the way things come into being, the complexity that can emerge from simplicity, and seeing the intricate details and infinite potential in all aspects of reality, whether natural or man-made.

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And despite Frederik undeniably being a physicist, his art does not revolve around quantum 101 or relativity. On the contrary, it is based on the time spent constructing setups and models for solid-state experiments.

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It wasn’t until 2003 that he came across Processing and realized that what he had discovered were toy models liberated from the constraints of an actual life application.
Suddenly, toy models became art and the ultimate expression of his stream of consciousness. 

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To Frederik, creating is a compulsion.
He sees alpha particles tracing in cells when rain hits the windshield. The little whirlpool when the bath plug gets pulled never goes unnoticed…
Caustics captivate him when he sits at the kitchen table and plays with the glasses.

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And then comes the night, the exact moment when Frederik finds himself behind the computer, staring at a mess of code, drawing random structures on the screen. A creative coding, that fuels his curiosity in physical, biological, and computational systems.



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Similarly, his artworks captivate the viewers and draw them into a trance-like state.
“Chromatic Dazzle” being one of them, consisting of a collection of 511 pieces on fxhash, rich in generative geometry. 

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Another iconic piece of his is “Slicer concept: translate, rotate, skew, squash” a GIF loop that has a similar feeling to “Chromatic Dazzle”, but with the generative geometry taking on a much more minimal style. 

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Digital art is Frederik's preferred medium as he believes that various forms of digital art, especially those that are not trying to emulate traditional art forms, are just as valid and important as music, dance, literature, and other means of expression.



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Which leads to his distinctive artwork “Lamia”, an isometric presentation of the poem with the same name written by John Keats in 1819, where the work cycles through the 728 lines of the poem, with one line presented every 8 seconds.



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Frederik's style is always changing and can be described as minimal at times, and exuberant at others. Sometimes monochromatic, other times garish, today it is pleasantly calming, but tomorrow it may be energetically nervous.



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The piece "Ring feeder, specimen 17" is a beautiful example of Frederik's more calming and relaxing style of generative geometry in Processing.
The spectator can zoom in and get lost within the intricate details of the piece as it continues to follow its rotating motion.


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Frederik is always exploring new ideas and concepts, sometimes coming together, sometimes left aside for years, and every now and then starting a new thread. Subdivision, flow, volume, slicing... A roadmap, in constant evolution.


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