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Glad to hear that you seem to enjoy the site!

Happy to try to answer questions if you have any.

Love this! Some of these algorithms are inherently recursive, have you used/looked into a functional language to create them at all?

Thanks. No, I've been using python/cython because I know it well already. I've considered learning a functional language though. So I'd be happy to get suggestions. Eg. I would choose a language that has a decent community as well as some good tools for drawing/pixel manipulation/3d modelling, depending on what's available (honestly I haven't researched it at all yet).

There's the diagrams package in Haskell for vector drawing:

http://projects.haskell.org/diagrams/gallery.html

Juicy pixels for raster manipulation:

https://github.com/Twinside/Juicy.Pixels

And gloss or haskell for mac as a processing kind of environment:

http://gloss.ouroborus.net/

http://haskellformac.com/ (http://learn.hfm.io/fractals.html)

There's an old comment thread from a year ago here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2naug0/haskell_as_...

I'd be interested to know what you think about the feasibility of using these tools to produce the kind of things you make :-)

Thanks a lot. This looks interesting. I'll definitely look into it. I don't think I'm qualified to say whether it is possible at this point, but my guess is that it is very possible!

I've been keeping an eye on http://thi.ng a toolset in Clojure /ClojureScript that Karsten Schmidt is developing

Karsten previously developed http://toxiclibs.org/ for Processing

You've probably seen my tweet already. The current draft of Creative Scala v2 can be found here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8669329/creative-scala.p...

The graphics library it uses is here: https://github.com/underscoreio/doodle

The source for Creative Scala is here: https://github.com/underscoreio/creative-scala

Would love to get your thoughts on this material.

Hi. Unfortunately I can't dive into this right now. But I'm bookmarking it! Scala sounds interesting to me.

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