Frederik Vanhoutte

BIO

Also known Wblut, Frederik is a master of multiple disciplines: a generative artist, creative coder, and generative geometrist, who also serves as a medical radiation physicist.

Holding a Ph.D. in Physics, Vanhoutte spends his daytime at a university hospital in Belgium, translating medical data into effective treatments for cancer patients alongside a dedicated team of oncologists, physicists, and nurses.

When night falls, Vanhoutte transforms into a creative coder, straddling the fine line between art and science, and utility and aesthetics. His journey with Processing since 2004 has fueled his curiosity about physical, biological, and computational systems, and his creative coding manifests this fascination.

He began sharing his work online in 2004 under the pseudonym Wintermute, which he later shortened to wblut. Vanhoutte states, "Code gives me a way to play, to explore the odd behavior of our world, to find the systems beneath it all." While working towards a PhD in physics, he discovered coding as a way to generate visual outputs. For over twenty years he has continued to evolve his practice and make significant contributions to the creative coding community.

/ TGAM's NOTES

Generative geometrist and medical‐radiation physicist by day, creative coder by night. Frederik explores the beauty hidden in systems through code.