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Generative art: New and recreated vintage art, made with code and imagination

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I make paintings from generative art, which I use to inspire physical paintings.

https://medium.com/@rememberlenny/digital-processes-inspirin...

I made a tutorial on recreating the generative art of John Whitney in the Processing programming language: https://youtu.be/LaarVR1AOvs

It's intended for beginner programmers, but it's surprising what you can do with not much code.

Thanks for the reference to John Whitney, new to me, and most interesting. Some of his films are on archive.org and his book Digital Harmony is downloadable as a pdf.

I got started with this back in May 2015[1] and would highly recommend YOU (yes, you!) try it! It's super easy - you just have to download and install Processing[2], then write some Java code to manipulate an canvas and viola!

[1] https://zk.gd/art.html

[2] https://processing.org

Nice images!

You can half the filesizes by better compressing the PNGs, for example with optipng or pngcrush, losslessly.

Just noticed on my one of my notebooks is featured in this collection!

Also, the other collections are defiantly worth checking out: https://beta.observablehq.com/@observablehq?tab=collections

The link does not work for me while the top one is. I am on iOS.

And you can actually see most of the art pieces being generated.. mesmerising..

Don't think quotes ' are warranted here

if you wanna create some awesome generative art youself check you the awesome Chromata[1] by "I was a teenage punk-rockstar" turned web-dev michael bromley

[1]https://www.michaelbromley.co.uk/experiments/chromata/

There's a (no longer updated) gallery using Processing at http://www.complexification.net/gallery/. It's quite old as well - ~10y at least

Is there an auditory equivalent?

Check out https://www.kadenze.com/ They have some interesting courses

Yes: http://wry.me/bytebeat/examples.html

(explanation: http://countercomplex.blogspot.com/2011/10/algorithmic-symph...)

Problem is style transfer as a paradigm adds very little to art as an original augmentation of our experience: it is seen as a mere pick & mix without an original act behind, therefore it is very difficult to sell... or is this the latest instalment of the old elites with money vs the angry and penniless young? I don't know, really. That's why as an art dealer I just took the plunge at http://www.artyde.com in order to make the physical act on very basic media fashionable again, that is hand-made A3 A4 A5 drawing or paintings with pastels and water colours. Pauperism forces thought and imagination and we literally need rehabilitation to create new styles imho.

All valid points, but not everything needs to be about money and business. A lot of people here are interested in subjects like generative art, simply for the joy of creating something nice and for fun :)

how to see these? Firefox, Chrome, and IE won't render anything... just a blank page.

how to see these? Firefox, Chrome, and IE only show a blank page.

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